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8.C Civics

8.C.CP Civic and Political Institutions
- 8.C.CP.1 Analyze the origin and purposes of rule of law, popular sovereignty, federalism, separation of powers and checks and balances.
- 8.C.CP.2 Explain the origins, functions and structure of government, with reference to the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and other founding documents, and their impacts on citizens.
- 8.C.CP.3 Explain how a system of checks and balances is intended to prevent a concentration of power in one branch.
  - Checks and balances (8-A.5)
8.C.RR Roles and Responsibilities of a Citizen
- 8.C.RR.1 Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to the definition of who is a citizen, expansion of that definition over time and changes in participation over time.
  - Citizenship and the naturalization process (8-D.1)
  - Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship (8-D.2)
- 8.C.RR.2 Analyze expansion of and restriction on citizenship and voting rights on diverse groups in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
- 8.C.RR.3 Analyze how groups in the United States have challenged Constitutional provisions, laws and court rulings denying them the rights of citizens.
  - Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears (8-N.3)
  - Causes of the Civil War: Dred Scott to secession (8-O.10)
8.C.CV Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles
- 8.C.CV.1 Analyze the impact of the democratic principles of equality before the law, inalienable rights, consent of the governed and the right to alter or abolish the government in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.C.PR Processes, Rules and Laws
- 8.C.PR.1 Explain the relationship between federalism and local, state and national governments.
  - State and local government (8-A.6)
  - The Constitution: structure and principles (8-B.1)
- 8.C.PR.2 Explain how the U.S. Constitution was interpreted and amended through the amendment process, legislative processes, judicial review, executive actions and Supreme Court Cases between 1789-1877.
8.C.KGO Kentucky Government
- 8.C.KGO.1 Examine the role of Kentucky and Kentuckians within national politics between 1792-1877.

8.E Economics

8.E.MI Microeconomics
- 8.E.MI.1 Describe the impact of supply and demand on equilibrium prices and quantities produced in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
- 8.E.MI.2 Assess the ways factors of production are combined in innovative ways resulting in economic growth and increased standards of living.
  - Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (8-O.1)
  - Industrialization in the Gilded Age (8-R.1)
8.E.MA Macroeconomics
- 8.E.MA.1 Analyze differing perspectives regarding the role of government in the economy, including the role of money and banking.
- 8.E.MA.2 Assess how regions of the United States specialized based on supply and demand due to their geographic locations.
- 8.E.MA.3 Analyze the purpose of taxation and its impact on government spending.
- 8.E.MA.4 Analyze how property rights are defined, protected, enforced and limited by government.
8.E.ST Specialization, Trade and Interdependence
- 8.E.ST.1 Analyze why economic interdependence existed between the regions of the United States between 1783-1877.
  - Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (8-O.1)
  - Comparing the North and the South (8-O.2)
8.E.IC Incentives, Choices and Decision Making
- 8.E.IC.1 Evaluate economic decisions based on scarcity, opportunity costs and incentives.
- 8.E.IC.2 Assess the impact of growth and expansion on the allocation of resources and economic incentives.
8.E.KE Kentucky Economics
- 8.E.KE.1 Explain how regional trends and policies impacted Kentucky's economy prior to the Civil War.
  - Comparing the North and the South (8-O.2)
- 8.E.KE.2 Explain how the availability of resources in Kentucky led people to make economic choices from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
  - Comparing the North and the South (8-O.2)

8.G Geography

8.G.MM Migration and Movement
- 8.G.MM.1 Interpret how political, environmental, social and economic factors led to both forced and voluntary migration in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.HI Human Interactions and Interconnections
- 8.G.HI.1 Explain how global interconnections impacted culture, land use and trade in the United States during Colonial Era through Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.HE Human Environment Interaction
- 8.G.HE.1 Analyze how cultural and technological changes influenced how people interacted with their environments in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.GR Geographic Reasoning
- 8.G.GR.1 Use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to analyze settlement patterns in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.KGE Kentucky Geography
- 8.G.KGE.1 Analyze Kentucky's role in the early nation through Reconstruction based on its physical geography and location.
  - Radical Reconstruction (8-Q.1)
  - The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow (8-Q.2)

8.H History

8.H.CH Change and Continuity
- 8.H.CH.1 Explain the role changing political, social and economic perspectives had on the lives of diverse groups of people in the Colonial Era.
- 8.H.CH.2 Analyze how social and ideological philosophies impacted various movements in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
- 8.H.CH.3 Explain how political, social and economic perspectives in the United States led to the rise in sectionalism between 1840-1860.
- 8.H.CH.4 Evaluate the impact technological innovations made on agriculture, trade and commerce in the years leading up to the Civil War between 1840-1860.
  - Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (8-O.1)
- 8.H.CH.5 Explain examples of political, geographic, social and economic changes and consistencies in the different regions of the United States between 1860-1877.
  - Comparing the North and the South (8-O.2)
8.H.CE Cause and Effect
- 8.H.CE.1 Analyze how the political, geographic, social and economic choices of the Colonial Era impacted the Revolutionary Period and Early Republic Period.
- 8.H.CE.2 Analyze the cause and effect of Westward Expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction on the diverse populations of the United States.
8.H.CO Conflict and Compromise
- 8.H.CO.1 Explain how colonial resistance to British control led to the Revolutionary War.
- 8.H.CO.2 Describe the conflicts and compromises that shaped the development of the U.S. government between 1783-1877.
- 8.H.CO.3 Analyze how economic, social, ideological and political changes led to sectional and national tensions, inspiring reform movements between 1840-1860.
  - Antebellum reform movements (8-O.3)
  - The abolitionists (8-O.6)
- 8.H.CO.4 Explain how sectionalism and slavery within the United States led to conflicts between 1820-1877.
8.H.KH Kentucky History
- 8.H.KH.1 Articulate Kentucky's role in early American history from the earliest colonial settlement to 1877.
- 8.H.KH.2 Examine patterns of collaboration and conflict between immigrants to Kentucky and those already in residence from 1775 to 1877.
  - Antebellum immigration (8-O.4)

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8.C Civics

8.C.CP Civic and Political Institutions

8.C.CP.1 Analyze the origin and purposes of rule of law, popular sovereignty, federalism, separation of powers and checks and balances.

8.C.CP.2 Explain the origins, functions and structure of government, with reference to the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights and other founding documents, and their impacts on citizens.

8.C.CP.3 Explain how a system of checks and balances is intended to prevent a concentration of power in one branch.

8.C.RR Roles and Responsibilities of a Citizen

8.C.RR.1 Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to the definition of who is a citizen, expansion of that definition over time and changes in participation over time.

8.C.RR.2 Analyze expansion of and restriction on citizenship and voting rights on diverse groups in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.C.RR.3 Analyze how groups in the United States have challenged Constitutional provisions, laws and court rulings denying them the rights of citizens.

8.C.CV Civic Virtues and Democratic Principles

8.C.CV.1 Analyze the impact of the democratic principles of equality before the law, inalienable rights, consent of the governed and the right to alter or abolish the government in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.C.PR Processes, Rules and Laws

8.C.PR.1 Explain the relationship between federalism and local, state and national governments.

8.C.PR.2 Explain how the U.S. Constitution was interpreted and amended through the amendment process, legislative processes, judicial review, executive actions and Supreme Court Cases between 1789-1877.

8.C.KGO Kentucky Government

8.C.KGO.1 Examine the role of Kentucky and Kentuckians within national politics between 1792-1877.

8.E Economics

8.E.MI Microeconomics

8.E.MI.1 Describe the impact of supply and demand on equilibrium prices and quantities produced in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.E.MI.2 Assess the ways factors of production are combined in innovative ways resulting in economic growth and increased standards of living.

8.E.MA Macroeconomics

8.E.MA.1 Analyze differing perspectives regarding the role of government in the economy, including the role of money and banking.

8.E.MA.2 Assess how regions of the United States specialized based on supply and demand due to their geographic locations.

8.E.MA.3 Analyze the purpose of taxation and its impact on government spending.

8.E.MA.4 Analyze how property rights are defined, protected, enforced and limited by government.

8.E.ST Specialization, Trade and Interdependence

8.E.ST.1 Analyze why economic interdependence existed between the regions of the United States between 1783-1877.

8.E.IC Incentives, Choices and Decision Making

8.E.IC.1 Evaluate economic decisions based on scarcity, opportunity costs and incentives.

8.E.IC.2 Assess the impact of growth and expansion on the allocation of resources and economic incentives.

8.E.KE Kentucky Economics

8.E.KE.1 Explain how regional trends and policies impacted Kentucky's economy prior to the Civil War.

8.E.KE.2 Explain how the availability of resources in Kentucky led people to make economic choices from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.G Geography

8.G.MM Migration and Movement

8.G.MM.1 Interpret how political, environmental, social and economic factors led to both forced and voluntary migration in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.G.HI Human Interactions and Interconnections

8.G.HI.1 Explain how global interconnections impacted culture, land use and trade in the United States during Colonial Era through Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.G.HE Human Environment Interaction

8.G.HE.1 Analyze how cultural and technological changes influenced how people interacted with their environments in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.G.GR Geographic Reasoning

8.G.GR.1 Use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to analyze settlement patterns in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.G.KGE Kentucky Geography

8.G.KGE.1 Analyze Kentucky's role in the early nation through Reconstruction based on its physical geography and location.

8.H History

8.H.CH Change and Continuity

8.H.CH.1 Explain the role changing political, social and economic perspectives had on the lives of diverse groups of people in the Colonial Era.

8.H.CH.2 Analyze how social and ideological philosophies impacted various movements in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.

8.H.CH.3 Explain how political, social and economic perspectives in the United States led to the rise in sectionalism between 1840-1860.

8.H.CH.4 Evaluate the impact technological innovations made on agriculture, trade and commerce in the years leading up to the Civil War between 1840-1860.

8.H.CH.5 Explain examples of political, geographic, social and economic changes and consistencies in the different regions of the United States between 1860-1877.

8.H.CE Cause and Effect

8.H.CE.1 Analyze how the political, geographic, social and economic choices of the Colonial Era impacted the Revolutionary Period and Early Republic Period.

8.H.CE.2 Analyze the cause and effect of Westward Expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction on the diverse populations of the United States.

8.H.CO Conflict and Compromise

8.H.CO.1 Explain how colonial resistance to British control led to the Revolutionary War.

8.H.CO.2 Describe the conflicts and compromises that shaped the development of the U.S. government between 1783-1877.

8.H.CO.3 Analyze how economic, social, ideological and political changes led to sectional and national tensions, inspiring reform movements between 1840-1860.

8.H.CO.4 Explain how sectionalism and slavery within the United States led to conflicts between 1820-1877.

8.H.KH Kentucky History

8.H.KH.1 Articulate Kentucky's role in early American history from the earliest colonial settlement to 1877.

8.H.KH.2 Examine patterns of collaboration and conflict between immigrants to Kentucky and those already in residence from 1775 to 1877.