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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.
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.
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.).
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.