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Skills available for Kentucky high school social studies standards
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- Kentucky Academic Standards: Civics Kentucky Academic Standards: Civics
- Kentucky Academic Standards: United States History Kentucky Academic Standards: United States History
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HS.UH.CH Change and Continuity
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HS.UH.CH.1 Examine the ways diverse groups viewed themselves and contributed to the identity of the United States in the world from 1877–present.
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HS.UH.CH.2 Analyze changes to economic policies, the size of government and the power of government between 1890–1945.
- Industry in the Gilded Age (US-G.1)
- The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
- World War I: causes and U.S. entry (US-I.1)
- World War I: the home front and battlefront (US-I.2)
- Prohibition (US-J.1)
- Causes of the Great Depression (US-K.1)
- Identify New Deal agencies (US-K.2)
- Source analysis: fireside chats (US-K.3)
- Japanese American internment (US-L.2)
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HS.UH.CH.3 Analyze the impact of economic institutions, including the Federal Reserve, property rights, legal systems and corporations on the development of the United States from an agrarian to an industrial state from 1877–present.
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HS.UH.CH.4 Assess the effectiveness of how people, organizations, government policies, labor laws and economic systems have attempted to address working conditions and income distributions from 1877–present.
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HS.UH.CH.5 Analyze the impact of technology and new ideas on American culture from 1877–present.
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HS.UH.CH.6 Analyze the role of the United States in global affairs in the post-Cold War Era from 1991–present.
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HS.UH.CH.7 Evaluate the impact of fundamental documents and speeches on the development of the United States from 1877 to present that shall include but are not limited to: The September 18, 1895, Atlanta Exposition Address by Booker T. Washington; Of Booker T. Washington and Others by W.E.B. Du Bois; The United States Supreme Court opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896); The August 31, 1910, New Nationalism speech by Theodore Roosevelt; The January 11, 1944, State of the Union Address by Franklin D. Roosevelt; The United States Supreme Court opinions in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 349 U.S. 294 (1955); Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.; The August 28, 1963, "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.; and A Time for Choosing by Ronald Reagan.
HS.UH.CE Cause and Effect
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HS.UH.CE.1 Analyze the political, economic and social impacts of industrialization on the United States between 1877–1945.
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HS.UH.CE.2 Analyze the events that caused the United States to emerge as a global power between 1890–1991.
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HS.UH.CE.3 Explain the political, social and economic causes and effects of economic boom and bust cycles between 1877–1945.
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HS.UH.CE.4 Assess the health of the U.S. economy by applying the economic indicators of inflation, deflation, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and unemployment from 1877–present.
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HS.UH.CE.5 Evaluate the ways in which groups facing discrimination worked to achieve expansion of rights and liberties from 1877–present.
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HS.UH.CE.6 Analyze how global interactions impacted American culture and society from 1890–present.
- The rise of U.S. imperialism (US-H.1)
- The presidency of Theodore Roosevelt (US-H.2)
- World War I: causes and U.S. entry (US-I.1)
- World War I: the home front and battlefront (US-I.2)
- Causes of World War II (US-L.1)
- Japanese American internment (US-L.2)
- Introduction to the Cold War (US-M.1)
- The presidency of John F. Kennedy (US-N.1)
HS.UH.CO Conflict and Compromise
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HS.UH.CO.1 Explain the impact of U.S. expansion at home and abroad between 1877–1929.
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HS.UH.CO.2 Evaluate domestic responses to migration and immigration in the United States from 1877–present.
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HS.UH.CO.3 Analyze the role of the United States in global compromises and conflicts between 1890–1945 in the Spanish American War, World War I, the Interwar years and World War II.
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HS.UH.CO.4 Analyze the conflicting ideologies and policies of the United States and Soviet Union and their impact, both domestically and globally, during the Cold War Era between 1945–1991.
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HS.UH.CO.5 Analyze examples of conflict and compromise between the United States and other nations, groups and individuals in the post-Cold War Era from 1991–present.
HS.UH.KH Kentucky History
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HS.UH.KH.1 Examine how Kentuckians influence and are influenced by major national developments in U.S. history from 1877–present.