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History

  • Context, Change, and Continuity

  • Historical Perspectives

  • Historical Sources and Evidence

    • 20 Investigate a variety of historical sources by: a) analyzing primary and secondary sources; b) identifying perspectives and narratives that are absent from the available sources; and c) interpreting the historical context, intended audience, purpose, and author's point of view of these sources.

      • 9.4.20.7 U.S. History Era 1: Indigenous Histories—Interpret a variety of historical sources (including objects, artistic works, written accounts and oral narratives) in order to develop a nuanced understanding of the multiple, diverse and complex societies in North America before European colonialism.

      • 9.4.20.8 U.S. History Era 2: Settler Colonialism and Atlantic Slavery—Investigate historical sources about colonialism, religion and slavery, asking who created them and whose interests were articulated or excluded. Analyze the ways in which the perspectives of those recording history shaped the history that they produced.

      • 9.4.20.9 U.S. History Era 3: Freedom, Unfreedom and Revolution—Examine the founding documents and early statutes of the United States, focusing on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Great Law of Peace (Haudenosaunee Constitution) as historical sources, asking who created them, whose voices were absent and whose interests were articulated or excluded.

      • 9.4.20.10 U.S. History Era 4: Imperial Expansion and Native Dispossession—Interpret multiple primary or secondary sources to understand and analyze the perspectives of individuals and communities who were affected by and/or participated in imperial expansion and Native Dispossession, including Indigenous, Mexican, Black and/or Asian perspectives.

      • 9.4.20.11 U.S. History Era 5: Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction—Interpret multiple primary sources related to the Civil War and abolition in order to analyze how Black and White abolitionists successfully pressured the U.S. government to end slavery.

      • 9.4.20.12 U.S. History Era 6: Migration, Imperialism and Inequality—Interpret historical sources created by North American Indigenous peoples and other colonized peoples (i.e., Cubans, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans, Hawaiians, etc.) in order to examine how they responded to changes in federal Indian policy and/or foreign policy, especially regarding migration, forced removal, sovereignty, land ownership, education, religion and assimilation. Analyze how current interpretations of the past are limited by the extent to which available historical sources represent perspectives of people at the time.

      • 9.4.20.13 U.S. History Era 7: U.S. and the World—Interpret multiple primary sources to explore the experiences of refugees and immigrants to the United States during the mid-20th century. Use secondary sources to contextualize their experiences.

      • 9.4.20.14 U.S. History Era 8: Civil Rights Struggles—Interpret how new media (e.g., television, internet and social media) and new technologies (e.g., computers, drones) have influenced the creation, interpretation and memory of historical events.

  • Causation and Argumentation

    • 21 Integrate evidence from multiple historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument or compelling narrative about the past.

      • 9.4.21.8 U.S. History Era 1: Indigenous Histories—Construct an argument about Indigenous history before European colonialism, using multiple sources.

      • 9.4.21.9 U.S. History Era 2: Settler Colonialism and Atlantic Slavery—Describe the ways that Indigenous peoples managed the environment before European colonialism. Examine the impact of capitalism on those ways of environmental management as well as global trade networks.

      • 9.4.21.10 U.S. History Era 3: Freedom, Unfreedom and Revolution—Develop an argument based on multiple historical sources about the relationship between revolutions and/or rebellions in the Americas, including, but not limited to, the American Revolution and the Haitian Revolution. Distinguish between long-term causes and triggering events in developing a historical argument.

      • 9.4.21.11 U.S. History Era 4: Imperial Expansion and Native Dispossession—Critique the central argument in secondary historical sources about the Industrial Revolution and its relationship to new technologies, accelerated expansion, capitalist growth, slavery and/or colonialism.

      • 9.4.21.12 U.S. History Era 5: Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction—Analyze multiple and complex causes and effects of the U.S. Civil War and its impact on African Americans and Indigenous people.

      • 9.4.21.13 U.S. History Era 6: Migration, Imperialism and Inequality—Describe and analyze the effectiveness of political and cultural responses to the problems of industrialism, monopoly capitalism, urbanization and political corruption.

      • 9.4.21.14 U.S. History Era 7: U.S. and the World—Construct an argument about the impact of the technological changes on American society and popular culture in the post-World War II era.

      • 9.4.21.15 U.S. History Era 8: Civil Rights Struggles—Explain the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. Describe various immigrant, migrant and refugee groups, focusing on Hmong, Somali, Indian, Ethiopian and Latinx people who have come to the United States. Examine different responses to immigration and the growing diversity of the United States.

  • Connecting Past and Present