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CA.6-8.HSSA.Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills: The intellectual skills noted below are to be learned through, and applied to, the content standards for grades six through eight. They are to be assessed only in conjunction with the content standards in gr
Historical and Social Sciences Analysis Skills: The intellectual skills noted below are to be learned through, and applied to, the content standards for grades six through eight. They are to be assessed only in conjunction with the content standards in gr
6-8.CST. Chronological and Spatial Thinking6-8.CST.1. Students explain how major events are related to one another in time.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
6-8.CST.3. Students use a variety of maps and documents to identify physical and cultural features of neighborhoods, cities, states, and countries and to explain the historical migration of people, expansion and disintegration of empires, and the growth of economic
6-8.HI. Historical Interpretation6-8.HI.1. Students explain the central issues and problems from the past, placing people and events in a matrix of time and place.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Canada Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Civil Rights Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expansionism Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Alamo Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
6-8.HI.2. Students understand and distinguish cause, effect, sequence, and correlation in historical events, including the long-and short-term causal relations.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
6-8.HI.3. Students explain the sources of historical continuity and how the combination of ideas and events explains the emergence of new patterns.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
6-8.HI.4. Students recognize the role of chance, oversight, and error in history.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
6-8.HI.5. Students recognize that interpretations of history are subject to change as new information is uncovered.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
6-8.HI.6. Students interpret basic indicators of economic performance and conduct cost-benefit analyses of economic and political issues.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Economics
6-8.REP. Research, Evidence, and Point6-8.REP.1. Students frame questions that can be answered by historical study and research.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
CA.8.United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict
United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict
8.1. Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.8.1.1. Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor.
8.1.2. Analyze the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence, with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights (e.g., key phrases such as 'all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with c
8.10. Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.8.10.4. Discuss Abraham Lincoln's presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence, such as his 'House Divided' speech (1858), Gettysburg Address (1863), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and inaugural
8.10.5. Study the views and lives of leaders (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee) and soldiers on both sides of the war, including those of black soldiers and regiments.
8.10.6. Describe critical developments and events in the war, including the major battles, geographical advantages and obstacles, technological advances, and General Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
8.10.7. Explain how the war affected combatants, civilians, the physical environment, and future warfare.
8.11. Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.8.11.1. List the original aims of Reconstruction and describe its effects on the political and social structures of different regions.
8.11.3. Understand the effects of the Freedmen's Bureau and the restrictions placed on the rights and opportunities of freedmen, including racial segregation and 'Jim Crow' laws.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Civil Rights
8.11.5. Understand the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution and analyze their connection to Reconstruction.
8.12. Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Indus-trial Revolution.8.12.3. Explain how states and the federal government encouraged business expansion through tariffs, banking, land grants, and subsidies.
8.12.4. Discuss entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry (e.g., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Leland Stanford).
8.12.5. Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).
8.12.6. Discuss child labor, working conditions, and laissez-faire policies toward big business and examine the labor movement, including its leaders (e.g., Samuel Gompers), its demand for collective bargaining, and its strikes and protests over labor conditions.
8.12.7. Identify the new sources of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to the building of cities and the economy; explain the ways in which new social and economic patterns encouraged assimilation of newcomers into the mainstream amidst g
8.12.9. Name the significant inventors and their inventions and identify how they improved the quality of life (e.g., Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Orville and Wilbur Wright).
8.2. Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.8.2.1. Discuss the significance of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the May-flower Compact.
8.2.2. Analyze the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution and the success of each in implementing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
8.2.3. Evaluate the major debates that occurred during the development of the Constitution and their ultimate resolutions in such areas as shared power among institutions, divided state-federal power, slavery, the rights of individuals and states (later addresse
8.2.4. Describe the political philosophy underpinning the Constitution as specified in the Federalist Papers (authored by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay) and the role of such leaders as Madison, George Washington, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur Morri
8.2.5. Understand the significance of Jefferson's Statute for Religious Freedom as a forerunner of the First Amendment and the origins, purpose, and differing views of the founding fathers on the issue of the separation of church and state.
8.2.6. Enumerate the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights.
8.3. Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.8.3.2. Explain how the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 privatized national resources and transferred federally owned lands into private holdings, townships, and states.
8.3.3. Enumerate the advantages of a common market among the states as foreseen in and protected by the Constitution's clauses on interstate commerce, common coinage, and full-faith and credit.
8.3.4. Understand how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g., view of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition Acts, economic policy, National Bank, funding and assumption of the revolutio
8.3.5. Know the significance of domestic resistance movements and ways in which the central government responded to such movements (e.g., Shays' Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion).
8.3.6. Describe the basic law-making process and how the Constitution provides numerous opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government (e.g., function of elections, political parties, interest groups).
8.3.7. Understand the functions and responsibilities of a free press.
8.4. Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.8.4.1. Describe the country's physical landscapes, political divisions, and territorial expansion during the terms of the first four presidents.
8.4.2. Explain the policy significance of famous speeches (e.g., Washington's Farewell Address, Jefferson's 1801 Inaugural Address, John Q. Adams's Fourth of July 1821 Address).
8.5. Students analyze U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic.8.5.1. Understand the political and economic causes and consequences of the War of 1812 and know the major battles, leaders, and events that led to a final peace.
8.5.2. Know the changing boundaries of the United States and describe the relationships the country had with its neighbors (current Mexico and Canada) and Europe, including the influence of the Monroe Doctrine, and how those relationships influenced westward expQuiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expansionism Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mexico Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Alamo
8.6. Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.8.6.1. Discuss the influence of industrialization and technological developments on the region, including human modification of the landscape and how physical geography shaped human actions (e.g., growth of cities, deforestation, farming, mineral extraction).
8.6.2. Outline the physical obstacles to and the economic and political factors involved in building a network of roads, canals, and railroads (e.g., Henry Clay's American System).
8.6.4. Study the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded schools and churches to advance their rights and communities.
8.6.6. Examine the women's suffrage movement (e.g., biographies, writings, and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony).
8.7. Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.8.7.1. Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin.
8.7.2. Trace the origins and development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region's political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through
8.7.4. Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.
8.8. Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.8.8.1. Discuss the election of Andrew Jackson as president in 1828, the importance of Jacksonian democracy, and his actions as president (e.g., the spoils system, veto of the National Bank, policy of Indian removal, opposition to the Supreme Court).
8.8.2. Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny (e.g., the Lewis and Clark expedition, accounts of the removal of Indians, the Cherokees' 'Trail of Tears,' settlement Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expansionism
8.8.5. Discuss Mexican settlements and their locations, cultural traditions, attitudes toward slavery, land-grant system, and economies.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mexico Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Alamo
8.8.6. Describe the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War, including territorial settlements, the aftermath of the wars, and the effects the wars had on the lives of Americans, including Mexican Americans today.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mexico Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Alamo
8.9. Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.8.9.1. Describe the leaders of the movement (e.g., John Quincy Adams and his proposed constitutional amendment, John Brown and the armed resistance, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick
8.9.3. Describe the significance of the Northwest Ordinance in education and in the banning of slavery in new states north of the Ohio River.
8.9.4. Discuss the importance of the slavery issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and California's admission to the union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.
8.9.5. Analyze the significance of the States's Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay's role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred
8.9.6. Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and economic opportunities.
CA.CC.RH.6-8.Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Craft and StructureRH.6-8.4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ancient Rome Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Canada Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Civil Rights Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Economics Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Egypt Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expansionism Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mesopotamia Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mexico Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Phoenicia Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Alamo Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
RH.6-8.5. Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ancient Rome Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Canada Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Civil Rights Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Economics Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Egypt Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expansionism Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mesopotamia Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mexico Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Phoenicia Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Alamo Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II
Range of Reading and Level of Text ComplexityRH.6-8.10. By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Ancient Rome Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Canada Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Civil Rights Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Economics Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Egypt Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Expansionism Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mesopotamia Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mexico Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Phoenicia Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Alamo Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Aztecs Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Cold War Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Incas Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Maya Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War I Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide World War II