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DC.8.U.S. History and Geography I: Growth and Conflict

U.S. History and Geography I: Growth and Conflict

THE RISE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA (1877–1914)

8.13. Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

8.13.1. Explain the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, and the conservation movement). (G, S, E)

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8.13.4. Explain the connection between the ideology of Manifest Destiny and accelerated economic growth of the United States in the late 19th century (e.g., connection between U.S. business interests and military intervention in Mexico, Central America, and the C

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THE DIVERGENT AND UNIFYING PATHS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (1800–1850)

8.10. Students analyze the issue of slavery, including the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

8.10.2. Describe the significance of the Northwest Ordinance in education and in the banning of slavery in new states north of the Ohio River. (P, S)

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8.10.3. Identify the various leaders of the abolitionist movement (e.g., John Quincy Adams and his proposed constitutional amendment and the Amistad case; John Brown and the armed resistance; Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad; Theodore Weld, crusader fo

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8.10.4. Describe 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. (P, S)

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8.10.5. Analyze the significance of the States’ 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 S

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8.10.6. Identify the conditions of enslavement, and explain how slaves adapted and resisted in their daily lives.

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8.7. Students analyze the paths of the American people in the North from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

8.7.2. Describe 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, and mineral extraction

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8.7.3. 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). (G, E)

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8.7.5. Describe the lives of black Americans who gained freedom in the North and founded mutual aid societies, schools, and churches to advance their rights and communities. (P, S)

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8.7.8. Explain the women’s suffrage movement (e.g., biographies, writings, and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony). (P, S)

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8.8. Students analyze the paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

8.8.2. Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, the locations of the cotton-producing states, and the significance of cotton and the cotton gin. (G, E)

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8.8.4. Trace the development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings of David

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8.9. Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

8.9.2. Describe 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, and opposition to the Supreme Court). (P)

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8.9.3. Describe the course and outcome of conflicts between American Indians and Europeans settlers over land (Indian Wars).

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8.9.4. Describe the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the land-exchange treaties that forced Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River further west, and the effect these policies had on Native American nations (e.g., Cherokee Nation versus Georgia).

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8.9.5. Describe the purpose, challenges, and economic incentives associated with westward expansion, including the concept of Manifest Destiny (e.g., accounts of the removal of Indians, the Cherokees’ Trail of Tears, and settlement of the Great Plains) and the t

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8.9.9. 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. (G, M, S)

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THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES (1777–1789)

8.3. Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution, and they compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.

8.3.1. Describe the significance of the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the Mayflower Compact. (P)

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8.3.10. Explain the need and reasons for amendments to the Constitution. (P)

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8.3.2. Analyze the Articles of Confederation and the reasons for its replacement by the Constitution. (P)

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8.3.3. Explain the Constitution and its success in implementing the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. (P)

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8.3.4. 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

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8.3.5. Describe the political philosophy underpinning the Constitution as specified in The Federalist Papers (by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay), and explain the role of such leaders as James Madison, George Washington, Roger Sherman, Gouverneur

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8.3.7. Identify and explain the origins, purpose, and differing views of the framers on the issue of the separation of church and state. (P, R)

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8.3.8. Explain the significance of Jefferson’s Statute for Religious Freedom as a forerunner of the First Amendment. (P, R)

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8.3.9. Describe the powers of government set forth in the Constitution and the fundamental liberties ensured by the Bill of Rights. (P)

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8.4. Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

8.4.2. Explain how the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 privatized national resources and transferred federally owned lands into private holdings, townships, and states. (G, P)

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8.4.3. Explain the strict versus loose interpretation of the Constitution and how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g., their views of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition Acts, econ

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8.4.4. Understand the significance of domestic resistance movements and the way in which the central government responded to such movements (e.g., Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion). (P)

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8.4.5. 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, and interest group

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8.4.6. 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, etc. (E)

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OUR COLONIAL HERITAGE (1600–1720)

8.1. Students explain the religious, political, and economic reasons for movement of people from Europe to the Americas, and they describe the impact of exploration and settlement by Europeans on Native Americans.

8.1.2. Explain instances of both cooperation and conflict between Native Americans and European settlers, such as agriculture, trade, cultural exchanges, and military alliances, as well as later broken treaties, massacres, and conflicts over control of the land.

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8.1.4. Locate and identify the first 13 colonies, and describe how their location and natural environment influenced their development. (G)

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8.1.5. Identify the contributions of political and religious leaders in colonial America (e.g., John Smith, William Bradford, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker, and William Penn). (P, R)

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8.1.7. Describe the day-to-day colonial life for men, women, and children in different regions and their connection to the land. (S, E)

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CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1830–1877)

8.11. Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

8.11.4. Describe Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence (e.g., his House Divided speech in 1858, Gettysburg Address in 1863, Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and inaugural

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