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SC.8-SSLS.Social Studies Literacy Skills for the Twenty-First Century

Social Studies Literacy Skills for the Twenty-First Century
8-SSLS.1. Literacy Skills for Social Studies
8-SSLS.1.10. Interpret Earth's physical and human systems by using maps, mental maps, geographic models, and other social studies resources.
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8-SSLS.1.12. Explain how political, social, and economic institutions are similar or different across time and/or throughout the world.
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8-SSLS.1.13. Explain how the endowment and development of productive resources affects economic decisions and global interactions.
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8-SSLS.1.14. Apply economic decision making to understand how limited resources necessitate choices.
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8-SSLS.1.15. Examine the costs and the benefits of economic choices made by a particular society and explain how those choices affect overall economic well-being.
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8-SSLS.1.17. Explain how entrepreneurship and economic risk-taking promotes personal and social economic development in the past and the present.
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8-SSLS.1.3. Compare the locations of places, the conditions at places, and the connections between places.
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8-SSLS.1.6. Identify and explain the relationships among multiple causes and multiple effects.
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8-SSLS.1.9. Explain change and continuity over time and across cultures.
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SC.8.South Carolina: One of the United States

South Carolina: One of the United States
8-1: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the settlement of South Carolina and the United States by Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.
The human mosaic of the South Carolina colony was composed of indigenous, immigrant, and enslaved populations. To understand how these differing backgrounds melded into an entirely new and different culture, the student will utilize the knowledge and skil
8-1.2. Compare the motives, activities, and accomplishments of the exploration of South Carolina and North America by the Spanish, French, and English.
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8-1.3. Summarize the history of English settlement in New England, the mid-Atlantic region, and the South, with an emphasis on South Carolina as an example of a distinctly southern colony.
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8-1.4. Explain the significance of enslaved and free Africans in the developing culture and economy of the South and South Carolina, including the growth of the slave trade and resulting population imbalance between African and European settlers; African contrib
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8-2: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the causes of the American Revolution and the beginnings of the new nation, with an emphasis on South Carolina's role in the development of that nation.
The events surrounding the American Revolution transformed British colonists into American citizens. To understand South Carolina's pivotal role in this process, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the following indicators:
8-2.1. Explain the political and economic consequences of the French and Indian War on the relationship of the South Carolina colonists with Native Americans and England.
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8-2.3. Explain the roles of South Carolinians in the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
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8-2.5. Summarize the role of South Carolinians in the course of the American Revolution, including the use of partisan warfare and the battles of Charleston, Camden, Cowpens, Kings Mountain and Eutaw Springs.
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8-3: The student will demonstrate an understanding of South Carolina's role in the development of the new national government.
Independence from Great Britain made the creation of a new national government and individual state governments imperative. To understand how and why these governments were created, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set forth in the follow
8-3.3. Explain the basic principles of government as established in the United States Constitution.
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8-3.4. Analyze the position of South Carolina on the issues that divided the nation in the early 1800s, including the assumption of state debts, the creation of a national bank, the protective tariff and the role of the United States in the European conflict bet
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8-4: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the multiple events that led to the Civil War.
The outbreak of the Civil War was the culminating event in a decades-long series of regional issues that threatened American unity and South Carolina's identity as one of the United States. To understand how South Carolina came to be at the center of this
8-4.1. Explain the importance of agriculture in antebellum South Carolina, including the plantation system and the impact of the cotton gin on all social classes.
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8-4.2. Analyze how sectionalism arose from racial tension, including the Denmark Vesey plot, slave codes and the growth of the abolitionist movement.
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8-4.3. Analyze key issues that led to South Carolina's secession from the Union, including the nullification controversy and John C. Calhoun, the extension of slavery and the compromises over westward expansion, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Dred Scott decision,
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8-4.5. Compare the military strategies of the North and the South during the Civil War and the fulfillment of these strategies in South Carolina and in the South as a whole, including the attack on Fort Sumter, the Union blockade of Charleston and other ports, t
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8-5: The student will understand the impact of Reconstruction, industrialization, and Progressivism on society and politics in South Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
During the periods of Reconstruction, industrial expansion, and the Progressive movement, South Carolina searched for ways to revitalize its economy while maintaining its traditional society. To understand South Carolina's experience as representative of
8-5.4. Summarize the policies and actions of South Carolina's political leadership in implementing discriminatory laws that established a system of racial segregation, intimidation, and violence.
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8-5.5. Compare industrial development in South Carolina to industrialization in the rest of the United States, including the expansion of railroads, the development of the phosphate and textile industries, and immigration.
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8-5.8. Compare the Progressive movement in South Carolina with the national Progressive movement, including the impact on temperance; women's suffrage; labor laws; and educational, agricultural, health, and governmental reform.
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8.5.1. Analyze the development of Reconstruction policy and its impact in South Carolina, including the presidential and the congressional reconstruction plans, the role of black codes, and the Freedmen's Bureau.
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8-6: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the role of South Carolina in the nation in the early twentieth century.
South Carolina's response to national crises during the first half of the twentieth century brought it back into full participation in the national experience. To understand the state's changed status, the student will utilize the knowledge and skills set
8-6.1. Explain the reasons for United States involvement in World War I and the war's impact on South Carolina and the nation as a whole, including the building of new military bases and the economic impact of emigration to industrial jobs in the North.
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8-6.2. Explain the causes and effects of changes in South Carolina and the nation as a whole in the 1920s, including Prohibition, the destruction caused by the boll weevil, the rise of mass media, improvements in daily life, increases in tourism and recreation,
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8-6.4. Explain the effects of the Great Depression and the lasting impact of the New Deal on people and programs in South Carolina, including James F. Byrnes and Mary McLeod Bethune, the Rural Electrification Act, the general textile strike of 1934, the Civilian
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SC.CC.RH.6-8.Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies

Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
RH.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.
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Craft and Structure
RH.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.
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RH.6-8.5. Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
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