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US History from Exploration to Reconstruction/Civics and the World

Civics, Economics, Civil Rights, Geography, and History
- 7C.1 Understand the various roles and expectations of citizens throughout the world and apply that understanding to their role as a citizen of their community, state, and nation.
  - 7C.1.1 Compare and contrast how citizenship roles vary within different political structures including but not limited to democratic, totalitarian, and monarchical systems.
    - Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship (7-HH.2)
  - 7C.1.2 Investigate how citizenship roles vary based on the population, size, and geographic position of a state including but not limited to federal, confederate, and unitary systems.
  - 7C.1.3 Determine that citizenship takes many forms including but not limited to responsible financial activity, active and passive participation in government, being aware of important issues and challenges, and the responsible use of resources.
    - Rights and responsibilities of active citizenship (7-HH.2)
  - 7C.1.4 Develop understanding of basic human rights and liberties that are at the core of American culture and compare those rights to those listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
    - The Bill of Rights (7-FF.4)
- 7C.2 Examine the challenges of civic engagement in the contemporary world.
  - 7C.2.1 Compare the positive and negative impacts of changing technologies on expanding the role of citizens throughout the world and the challenges posed by new media sources to obtaining reliable information upon which to make decisions.
  - 7C.2.2 Evaluate how globalization has changed the rights and responsibilities of citizens in relation to economic disparity and equity.
  - 7C.2.3 Assess how growing concerns about security have impacted civil liberty protections.
- 7C.3 Formulate an understanding of citizenship roles in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa and how they are influenced by a variety of factors.
  - 7C.3.1 Construct maps that reflect the physical environment of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa and evaluate how that environment impacts local culture.
  - 7C.3.2 Create a map that reflects the current political structure of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa including countries, major population centers, significant natural features, and capital cities.
  - 7C.3.3 Select three Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa countries and identify the cultural and historical factors (ex. First Nations, colonization, war and conquest, and religion) that have shaped the civic identity of those cultures and the expectations they have for civic participation.
    - Country profile: China (7-J.2)
  - 7C.3.4 Select three Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa countries and examine the participation of those countries in an increasingly globalized world and compare them to other nations in terms of metrics including GDP per capita, Human Misery Index, Gross National Happiness, Infant and Child Mortality Rates, Life Expectancy, and Literacy Rates.
  - 7C.3.5 Compare human rights and liberties found in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to core American civil values.
- 7C.4 Interpret how regions are used to describe the organization of Earth's surface.
  - 7C.4.1 Contrast formal, functional, and perceptual regions and identify physical and human features used as the criteria for establishing them.
  - 7C.4.2 Recognize major world regions as formal regions and describe the main characteristics that distinguish them as different from one another.
- 7C.5 Describe the characteristics and causes of human population changes and migration.
  - 7C.5.1 Distinguish between the spatial patterns of human population in terms of distribution and density.
  - 7C.5.2 Explain how physical and human factors impact the migration and population characteristics of a place.
  - 7C.5.3 Trace major migration patterns in the U.S. and the world and the push/pull factors that drive them.
- 7C.6 Differentiate major aspects of the development of the United States from Exploration to 1754.
  - 7C.6.1 Create explorers' routes to the New World.
    - French and English expeditions: part I (7-DD.4)
    - French and English expeditions: part II (7-DD.5)
  - 7C.6.2 Formulate items involved in the Columbian Exchange.
    - The Columbian Exchange (7-DD.6)
  - 7C.6.3 Construct the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade with Spaniards in South/Central America.
  - 7C.6.4 Examine the diversity that emerged with the establishment of colonial America.
  - 7C.6.5 Contrast how the English Bill of Rights, The Mayflower Compact, and The Virginia House of Burgesses led to the English Colonial idea of self-government. Describe the social structures that formed in the various colonies.
  - 7C.6.6 Describe the relationships between the various Native American and colonial groups.
    - Life as a colonist (7-LL.1)
    - New England Colonies: economy and interactions with Native Americans (7-LL.6)
- 7C.7 Evaluate the key people, factors and events which led to the American Revolution and establishment of United States government.
  - 7C.7.1 Explain colonists' roles in the French and Indian War.
    - Causes of the American Revolution: the French and Indian War (7-MM.1)
  - 7C.7.2 Recognize and trace the major reasons for English taxes after the French and Indian War and colonial responses from 1763-1774 (Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, etc.).
  - 7C.7.3 Identify key figures in the early Revolutionary Era and their contributions (George Washington, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks, John Adams, John Hancock, Mercy Otis Warren, etc.).
- 7C.8 Identify and evaluate the people, places, and documents that caused the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of the American constitutional republic.
  - 7C.8.1 Describe the powers given to the Continental Congress by the Articles of Confederation.
    - The Articles of Confederation (7-NN.1)
  - 7C.8.2 Analyze the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that led to a call for a new constitution.
    - The Articles of Confederation (7-NN.1)
  - 7C.8.3 Contrast the major compromises at the Constitutional Convention.
    - The Constitutional Convention (7-NN.2)
  - 7C.8.4 Describe the framework of the United States Constitution, including powers of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.
  - 7C.8.5 Trace the process of a bill becoming a law.
    - The Legislative Branch (7-EE.2)
  - 7C.8.6 Debate the compromises between Federalists and Anti-Federalists that lead to the Bill of Rights.
    - The Constitutional Convention (7-NN.2)
- 7C.9 Analyze the challenges and central ideas involved in creating the new nation.
  - 7C.9.1 Evaluate the differences in political opinions of the new federal government that lead to the formation of political parties.
    - Washington's presidency: part II (7-NN.4)
    - The first party system: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans (7-NN.5)
  - 7C.9.2 Assess the importance of George Washington's Presidency and his Farewell Address on the American Presidency.
    - Washington's presidency: part II (7-NN.4)
  - 7C.9.3 Analyze the significance of early Supreme Court cases and explain impacts on the United States (e.g., Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Worcester v. Georgia).
    - The Marshall Court (7-NN.6)
- 7C.10 Interpret the geographical, social, and political causes, challenges, and effects of westward expansion.
  - 7C.10.1 Identify the reasons that the United States purchased Louisiana from France.
    - The Louisiana Purchase (7-NN.7)
  - 7C.10.2 Evaluate the significant of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  - 7C.10.3 Analyze the purpose, challenges, political, racial, religious and economic incentives associated with the concept of Manifest Destiny.
- 7C.11 Interpret the causes, challenges, and effects of the Industrial Revolution.
  - 7C.11.1 Summarize how the Industrial Revolution began in the United States.
    - Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (7-PP.1)
  - 7C.11.2 Identify key people and their contributions in the Industrial Revolution.
    - Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (7-PP.1)
  - 7C.11.3 Trace the development of transportation and communication systems during the Industrial Revolution.
    - Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (7-PP.1)
- 7C.12 Evaluate the impact of the American social and political reforms on developing American society during the first half of the nineteenth century.
  - 7C.12.1 Summarize the works of formerly enslaved African Americans who worked to lead others to freedom.
    - The abolitionists (7-PP.6)
  - 7C.12.2 Evaluate abolitionists' roles in bringing the reality of slavery to the nation (e.g., Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.).
    - The abolitionists (7-PP.6)
  - 7C.12.3 Compare and contrast the philosophies of natural rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments (e.g., phrases such as "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights").
    - Source analysis: the Declaration of Independence (7-MM.10)
- 7C.13 Examine the social and economic conflicts between the North and South, that would eventually lead to the American Civil War.
  - 7C.13.1 Synthesize prior knowledge of the geography of the Northern states and the Industrial Revolution to explain why slavery did not grow in the North.
    - Comparing the North and the South (7-PP.2)
  - 7C.13.2 Trace the origins and development of slavery; its impact on the nation's political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development.
    - Southern Colonies: economy and slavery (7-LL.10)
    - Slavery in the South (7-PP.5)
  - 7C.13.3 Analyze the impact of the cotton gin on all social classes and the importance of agriculture in antebellum Mississippi.
    - Comparing the North and the South (7-PP.2)
  - 7C.13.4 Identify major legislation and Supreme Court decisions that strived to both overturn and preserve slavery resulting in sectional strife (Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Acts, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Decision, Underground Railroad, Quakers' influence, etc.).
    - Causes of the Civil War: Missouri Compromise to Bleeding Kansas (7-PP.9)
    - Causes of the Civil War: Dred Scott to secession (7-PP.10)
- 7C.14 Identify and evaluate the key events and people involved in the American Civil War.
  - 7C.14.1 Analyze the reasons that the North and the South waged war against one another, including: slavery, states' rights.
    - Causes of the Civil War: Missouri Compromise to Bleeding Kansas (7-PP.9)
    - Causes of the Civil War: Dred Scott to secession (7-PP.10)
  - 7C.14.2 Examine key early battles and plans which shaped decisions in the North and South, including: First Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sherman March, Anaconda Plan, etc.
  - 7C.14.3 Identify key Northern and Southern political and military leaders.
  - 7C.14.4 Evaluate the contributions of women, African Americans and other minority groups to the war effort, including: Clara Barton, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Native Americans.
    - The Civil War: Bull Run to the Emancipation Proclamation (7-QQ.2)
  - 7C.14.5 Trace the events that led to northern victory in the Civil War, including: total war, industrial, population, resources, and technological advantages.
  - 7C.14.6 Analyze key documents and actions (North and South) during the Civil War, including: Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, draft laws, income tax.
    - The Civil War: Bull Run to the Emancipation Proclamation (7-QQ.2)
    - Source analysis: the Gettysburg Address (7-QQ.5)
- 7C.15 Analyze the Reconstruction efforts in post-Civil War America.
  - 7C.15.1 Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans.
    - Radical Reconstruction (7-RR.1)
  - 7C.15.2 Trace the economic changes in the post-Civil War South, including: Lincoln's Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Johnson's Plan, Radical Reconstruction.
    - Radical Reconstruction (7-RR.1)
  - 7C.15.3 Distinguish the roles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments in expanding liberty.
    - Radical Reconstruction (7-RR.1)
  - 7C.15.4 Examine the Southern resistance to Reconstruction reforms, including: Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Ku Klux Klan, etc.
    - Radical Reconstruction (7-RR.1)
    - The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow (7-RR.2)

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US History from Exploration to Reconstruction/Civics and the World

Civics, Economics, Civil Rights, Geography, and History

7C.1 Understand the various roles and expectations of citizens throughout the world and apply that understanding to their role as a citizen of their community, state, and nation.

7C.1.1 Compare and contrast how citizenship roles vary within different political structures including but not limited to democratic, totalitarian, and monarchical systems.

7C.1.2 Investigate how citizenship roles vary based on the population, size, and geographic position of a state including but not limited to federal, confederate, and unitary systems.

7C.1.3 Determine that citizenship takes many forms including but not limited to responsible financial activity, active and passive participation in government, being aware of important issues and challenges, and the responsible use of resources.

7C.1.4 Develop understanding of basic human rights and liberties that are at the core of American culture and compare those rights to those listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

7C.2 Examine the challenges of civic engagement in the contemporary world.

7C.2.1 Compare the positive and negative impacts of changing technologies on expanding the role of citizens throughout the world and the challenges posed by new media sources to obtaining reliable information upon which to make decisions.

7C.2.2 Evaluate how globalization has changed the rights and responsibilities of citizens in relation to economic disparity and equity.

7C.2.3 Assess how growing concerns about security have impacted civil liberty protections.

7C.3 Formulate an understanding of citizenship roles in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East and North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa and how they are influenced by a variety of factors.

7C.3.1 Construct maps that reflect the physical environment of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa and evaluate how that environment impacts local culture.

7C.3.2 Create a map that reflects the current political structure of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa including countries, major population centers, significant natural features, and capital cities.

7C.3.5 Compare human rights and liberties found in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to core American civil values.

7C.4 Interpret how regions are used to describe the organization of Earth's surface.

7C.4.1 Contrast formal, functional, and perceptual regions and identify physical and human features used as the criteria for establishing them.

7C.4.2 Recognize major world regions as formal regions and describe the main characteristics that distinguish them as different from one another.

7C.5 Describe the characteristics and causes of human population changes and migration.

7C.5.1 Distinguish between the spatial patterns of human population in terms of distribution and density.

7C.5.2 Explain how physical and human factors impact the migration and population characteristics of a place.

7C.5.3 Trace major migration patterns in the U.S. and the world and the push/pull factors that drive them.

7C.6 Differentiate major aspects of the development of the United States from Exploration to 1754.

7C.6.1 Create explorers' routes to the New World.

7C.6.2 Formulate items involved in the Columbian Exchange.

7C.6.3 Construct the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade with Spaniards in South/Central America.

7C.6.4 Examine the diversity that emerged with the establishment of colonial America.

7C.6.5 Contrast how the English Bill of Rights, The Mayflower Compact, and The Virginia House of Burgesses led to the English Colonial idea of self-government. Describe the social structures that formed in the various colonies.

7C.6.6 Describe the relationships between the various Native American and colonial groups.

7C.7 Evaluate the key people, factors and events which led to the American Revolution and establishment of United States government.

7C.7.1 Explain colonists' roles in the French and Indian War.

7C.7.2 Recognize and trace the major reasons for English taxes after the French and Indian War and colonial responses from 1763-1774 (Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, etc.).

7C.7.3 Identify key figures in the early Revolutionary Era and their contributions (George Washington, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks, John Adams, John Hancock, Mercy Otis Warren, etc.).

7C.8 Identify and evaluate the people, places, and documents that caused the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of the American constitutional republic.

7C.8.1 Describe the powers given to the Continental Congress by the Articles of Confederation.

7C.8.2 Analyze the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that led to a call for a new constitution.

7C.8.3 Contrast the major compromises at the Constitutional Convention.

7C.8.4 Describe the framework of the United States Constitution, including powers of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.

7C.8.5 Trace the process of a bill becoming a law.

7C.8.6 Debate the compromises between Federalists and Anti-Federalists that lead to the Bill of Rights.

7C.9 Analyze the challenges and central ideas involved in creating the new nation.

7C.9.1 Evaluate the differences in political opinions of the new federal government that lead to the formation of political parties.

7C.9.2 Assess the importance of George Washington's Presidency and his Farewell Address on the American Presidency.

7C.9.3 Analyze the significance of early Supreme Court cases and explain impacts on the United States (e.g., Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Worcester v. Georgia).

7C.10 Interpret the geographical, social, and political causes, challenges, and effects of westward expansion.

7C.10.1 Identify the reasons that the United States purchased Louisiana from France.

7C.10.2 Evaluate the significant of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

7C.10.3 Analyze the purpose, challenges, political, racial, religious and economic incentives associated with the concept of Manifest Destiny.

7C.11 Interpret the causes, challenges, and effects of the Industrial Revolution.

7C.11.1 Summarize how the Industrial Revolution began in the United States.

7C.11.2 Identify key people and their contributions in the Industrial Revolution.

7C.11.3 Trace the development of transportation and communication systems during the Industrial Revolution.

7C.12 Evaluate the impact of the American social and political reforms on developing American society during the first half of the nineteenth century.

7C.12.1 Summarize the works of formerly enslaved African Americans who worked to lead others to freedom.

7C.12.2 Evaluate abolitionists' roles in bringing the reality of slavery to the nation (e.g., Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.).

7C.12.3 Compare and contrast the philosophies of natural rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments (e.g., phrases such as "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights").

7C.13 Examine the social and economic conflicts between the North and South, that would eventually lead to the American Civil War.

7C.13.1 Synthesize prior knowledge of the geography of the Northern states and the Industrial Revolution to explain why slavery did not grow in the North.

7C.13.2 Trace the origins and development of slavery; its impact on the nation's political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development.

7C.13.3 Analyze the impact of the cotton gin on all social classes and the importance of agriculture in antebellum Mississippi.

7C.14 Identify and evaluate the key events and people involved in the American Civil War.

7C.14.1 Analyze the reasons that the North and the South waged war against one another, including: slavery, states' rights.

7C.14.2 Examine key early battles and plans which shaped decisions in the North and South, including: First Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sherman March, Anaconda Plan, etc.

7C.14.3 Identify key Northern and Southern political and military leaders.

7C.14.4 Evaluate the contributions of women, African Americans and other minority groups to the war effort, including: Clara Barton, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Native Americans.

7C.14.5 Trace the events that led to northern victory in the Civil War, including: total war, industrial, population, resources, and technological advantages.

7C.14.6 Analyze key documents and actions (North and South) during the Civil War, including: Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, draft laws, income tax.

7C.15 Analyze the Reconstruction efforts in post-Civil War America.

7C.15.1 Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans.

7C.15.2 Trace the economic changes in the post-Civil War South, including: Lincoln's Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Johnson's Plan, Radical Reconstruction.

7C.15.3 Distinguish the roles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments in expanding liberty.

7C.15.4 Examine the Southern resistance to Reconstruction reforms, including: Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Ku Klux Klan, etc.