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Grade 8: The United States: 1600-1877 Standards
Grade 8: The United States: 1600-1877 Standards
C: Processes, Rules and Laws
8.C.PR.2. Explain how the U.S. Constitution was interpreted and amended through the amendment process, legislative processes, judicial review, executive actions and Supreme Court Cases between 1789—1877.
8.C.RR.1. Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to the definition of who is a citizen, expansion of that definition over time and changes in participation over time.
8.C.RR.3. Analyze how groups in the United States have challenged Constitutional provisions, laws and court rulings denying them the rights of citizens.
8.C.CV.1. Analyze the impact of the democratic principles of equality before the law, inalienable rights, consent of the governed and the right to alter or abolish the government in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600—1877.
8.C.CP.2. Explain the origins, functions and structure of government, with reference to the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and other founding documents, and their impacts on citizens.
8.G.GR.1. Use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to analyze settlement patterns in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600—1877.
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G: Human Interactions and Interconnections
8.G.HI.1. Explain how global interconnections impacted culture, land use and trade in the United States during Colonial Era through Reconstruction from 1600—1877.
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G: Human Environment Interaction
8.G.HE.1. Analyze how cultural and technological changes influenced how people interacted with their environments in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600—1877.
8.G.MM.1. Interpret how political, environmental, social and economic factors led to both forced and voluntary migration in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600—1877.
8.H.CE.1. Analyze how the political, geographic, social and economic choices of the Colonial Era impacted the Revolutionary Period and Early Republic Period.
8.H.CO.3. Analyze how economic, social, ideological and political changes led to sectional and national tensions, inspiring reform movements between 1840—1860.
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H: Change and Continuity
8.H.CH.1. Explain the role changing political, social and economic perspectives had on the lives of diverse groups of people in the Colonial Era.
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8.H.CH.2. Analyze how social and ideological philosophies impacted various movements in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600—1877.
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8.H.CH.5. Explain examples of political, geographic, social and economic changes and consistencies in the different regions of the United States between 1860—1877.
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I: Communicating Conclusions
8.I.CC.1. Construct explanations, using reasoning, correct sequence, examples and details with relevant information and data, while acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses of the explanations related to the development of the United States.
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8.I.CC.2. Construct arguments by drawing on multiple disciplinary lenses to analyze how multiple perspectives, diversity and conflict and compromise impacted the development of the United States.
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8.I.CC.4. Apply a range of deliberative and democratic procedures to make decisions about ways to take action on current local, regional and global issues.
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