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EIGHTH GRADE: US HISTORY: EXPLORATION TO 1877

EIGHTH GRADE: US HISTORY: EXPLORATION TO 1877
CIVICS, ECONOMICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, GEOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY
8.1. Examine major aspects of the development of the United States from Exploration to 1754. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.1.4. Examine the diversity that emerged with the establishment of colonial America.
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8.1.5. Describe how the English Bill of Rights, The Mayflower Compact, and The Virginia House of Burgesses led to the English Colonial idea of self-government. Describe the social structures that formed in the various colonies.
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8.1.6. Describe the relationships between the various Native American and colonial groups.
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8.10. Analyze the Reconstruction efforts in post- Civil War America. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.10.1. Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans.
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8.10.2. Trace the economic changes in the post- Civil War South, including: Lincoln’s Plan, Wade- Davis Bill, Johnson’s Plan, Radical Reconstruction.
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8.10.3. Distinguish the roles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments in expanding liberty.
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8.10.4. Examine the Southern resistance to Reconstruction reforms, including: Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Ku Klux Klan, etc.
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8.2. Evaluate the key people, factors and events which led to the American Revolution and establishment of United States government. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.2.1. Explain colonists’ roles in the French and Indian War.
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8.2.2. Recognize and trace the major reasons for English taxes after the French and Indian War and colonial responses from 1763-1774 (Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, etc.).
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8.2.3. Identify key figures in the early Revolutionary Era (George Washington, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks, John Adams, John Hancock, Mercy Otis Warren, etc.).
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8.2.5. Examine the immediate events that led to the first shot of the Revolutionary War and the significance of major battles and places (Bunker Hill/Breeds Hill, Long Island, Trenton/Princeton, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Monmouth, Cowpens, Yorktown, Morristown, et
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8.2.6. Recognize key people’s roles during the Revolutionary War (George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, Charles Cornwallis, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Sampson, Loyalists, Patriots, etc.).
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8.3. Identify and evaluate the people, places, and documents that caused the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of the American constitutional republic. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, History)
8.3.2. Analyze the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that led to a call for a new constitution.
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8.3.4. Describe the framework of the United States Constitution, including powers of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.
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8.4. Analyze the challenges and central ideas involved in creating the new nation. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.4.2. Distinguish the importance of George Washington’s Presidency and his Farewell Address on the American Presidency.
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8.4.4. Assess the United States’ development and impact of foreign policy, including: response to the French Revolution, Neutrality Proclamation, Alien and Sedition Acts, XYZ Affair, Embargo Act, impressment, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, etc.
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8.5. Interpret the geographical, social, and political causes, challenges, and effects of westward expansion. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.5.1. Assess the reasons that the United States purchased Louisiana from France.
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8.5.3. Analyze the purpose, challenges, political, racial, religious and economic incentives associated with the concept of Manifest Destiny.
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8.5.4. Summarize Andrew Jackson’s roles in the growing United States, including: Jacksonian Era, “Corrupt Bargain”, Democratic Party, Bank War, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal, etc.
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8.5.5. Trace Indian Removal including the Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears.”
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8.5.6. Explain the causes and effects of Texas Independence and Mexican-American War.
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8.6. Interpret the causes, challenges, and effects of the Industrial Revolution. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.6.1. Summarize how the Industrial Revolution began in the United States.
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8.6.2. Identify key people and their contributions in the Industrial Revolution.
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8.6.3. Trace the development of transportation and communication systems during the Industrial Revolution.
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8.6.4. Compare and contrast the cultural, religious and social impact in American life that resulted from the Industrial Revolution.
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8.6.5. Assess how geography that led to the location of factories, including: rivers, urban areas, etc.
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8.7. Evaluate the impact of the American social and political reforms on developing American society during the first half of the nineteenth century. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, History)
8.7.1. Summarize the works of formerly enslaved African Americans who worked to lead others to freedom.
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8.7.2. Evaluate abolitionists’ roles in bringing the reality of slavery to the nation, including, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.
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8.7.3. Compare and contrast the philosophies of natural rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments, including: phrases such as “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
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8.7.4. Examine leaders in the women suffrage movement, including: biographies, writings, and speeches of Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and their influence on women’s rights.
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8.8. Interpret the social and economic conflicts between the North and South, that would eventually lead to the American Civil War. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.8.2. Trace the origins and development of slavery and its impact on the nation’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development.
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8.8.4. Identify major legislation and Supreme Court decisions that strived to both overturn and preserve slavery resulting in sectional strife, including: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Acts, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Sc
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8.9. Identify and evaluate the key events and people involved in the American Civil War. (Strands: Civics, Civil Rights, Geography, History, Economics)
8.9.1. Analyze the reasons that the North and the South waged war against one another, including: slavery, states’ rights.
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8.9.2. Examine key early battles and plans which shaped decisions in the North and South, including: First Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sherman March, Anaconda Plan, etc.
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8.9.3. Identify key Northern and Southern political and military leaders and their contributions.
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8.9.5. Trace the events that led to northern victory in the Civil War, including: total war, industrial, population, resources, and technological advantages.
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8.9.6. Analyze key documents and actions (North and South) during the Civil War, including: Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, draft laws, income tax.
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