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Skills available for District of Columbia seventh-grade social studies standards
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- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): A Newly Formed, Diverse Nation: Confederation to Constitution (1770s–1800s) K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): A Newly Formed, Diverse Nation: Confederation to Constitution (1770s–1800s)
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Colonization and Revolution (1500–1783) K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Colonization and Revolution (1500–1783)
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Emerging Social Movements (1800–1877) K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Emerging Social Movements (1800–1877)
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Indigenous Nations and Early European Colonization: Political, Social, and Economic Structures of the Americas in the 15th and 16th Century K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Indigenous Nations and Early European Colonization: Political, Social, and Economic Structures of the Americas in the 15th and 16th Century
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Invasion and Control: Conquest of the Nation (1800–1860) K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Invasion and Control: Conquest of the Nation (1800–1860)
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): The Civil War K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): The Civil War
- K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Unresolved: The Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) K-12 Social Studies Standards (adopted in 2023): Unresolved: The Reconstruction Era (1865–1877)
- District of Columbia Social Studies Standards District of Columbia Social Studies Standards
- Common Core State Standards: Grades 6-8 Literacy in History/Social Studies Common Core State Standards: Grades 6-8 Literacy in History/Social Studies
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4 Invasion and Control: Conquest of the Nation (1800–1860)
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7.48 Assess the extent to which perspectives toward American territorial expansion, including Manifest Destiny and Indigenous resistance, changed over time, including an understanding that the removal of Indigenous Nations was not inevitable.
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7.49 Compare and evaluate the different ways in which the United States acquired territory from 1800 to 1860, including an evaluation of the Louisiana Purchase.
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7.5 Evaluate the reasons different individuals, including Federalists, Abolitionists and Democratic-Republicans, supported and opposed American territorial expansion.
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7.51 Analyze the experiences of free Black communities in the American Northwest.
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7.52 Compare and evaluate the actions taken and rationales provided by the United States government to acquire western or Indigenous territory in the 1800s, with particular attention given to the policies and campaigns of President Andrew Jackson and the consequences such actions had on the land and people.
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7.53 Analyze the perspectives and actions (both adaptation and resistance) of Indigenous Nations in response to territorial invasion between 1800 and 1860 using primary and secondary sources.
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7.54 Evaluate the causes and consequences of the Mexican-American War, with specific attention to the impact of the war and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
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7.55 Evaluate the impact of territorial expansion, immigration, and Northern industrialization on the institution of slavery and American politics.