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- Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards: Introduction to Geography Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards: Introduction to Geography
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US History from Exploration to 1877
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Civics, Economics, Civil Rights, Geography, and History
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8.1 Examine major aspects of the development of the United States from Exploration to 1754.
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8.1.1 Trace explorers' routes to the New World.
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8.1.2 Give examples of items involved in the Columbian Exchange.
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8.1.3 Identify the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade with Spaniards in South/Central America.
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8.1.4 Examine the diversity that emerged with the establishment of colonial America.
- Life as a colonist (8-K.1)
- New England Colonies: founding and government (8-K.5)
- New England Colonies: economy and interactions with Native Americans (8-K.6)
- Middle Colonies: founding and government (8-K.7)
- Middle Colonies: economy and society (8-K.8)
- Southern Colonies: founding and government (8-K.9)
- Southern Colonies: economy and slavery (8-K.10)
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8.1.5 Describe 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.
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8.1.6 Describe the relationships between the various Native American and colonial groups.
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8.2 Evaluate the key people, factors and events which led to the American Revolution and establishment of United States government.
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8.2.1 Explain colonists' roles in the French and Indian War.
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8.2.2 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.).
- Causes of the American Revolution: the French and Indian War (8-L.1)
- Causes of the American Revolution: politics and society (8-L.2)
- Causes of the American Revolution: introduction to mercantilism and the Navigation Acts (8-L.3)
- Causes of the American Revolution: new taxes and colonial response (8-L.4)
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8.2.3 Identify key figures in the early Revolutionary Era (George Washington, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks, John Adams, John Hancock, Mercy Otis Warren, etc.).
- Causes of the American Revolution: the French and Indian War (8-L.1)
- Causes of the American Revolution: politics and society (8-L.2)
- Causes of the American Revolution: introduction to mercantilism and the Navigation Acts (8-L.3)
- Causes of the American Revolution: new taxes and colonial response (8-L.4)
- The Revolutionary War: preparing for war (8-L.5)
- Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (8-L.9)
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8.2.4 Compare and contrast the decisions that the First Continental Congress and Second Continental Congress made.
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8.2.5 Examine the immediate events that led to the first shot of the Revolutionary War and the significance of major battles and places (Bunker Hill/Breeds Hill, Long Island, Trenton/Princeton, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Monmouth, Cowpens, Yorktown, Morristown, etc.).
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8.2.6 Recognize key people's roles during the Revolutionary War (George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, Charles Cornwallis, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Sampson, Loyalists, Patriots, etc.).
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8.2.7 Summarize the terms of the Treaty of Paris, 1783.
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8.3 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.
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8.3.1 Describe the powers given to the Continental Congress by the Articles of Confederation.
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8.3.2 Analyze the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that led to a call for a new constitution.
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8.3.3 Identify the major compromises at the Constitutional Convention.
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8.3.4 Describe the framework of the United States Constitution, including powers of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches.
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8.3.5 Describe the process of a bill becoming a law.
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8.3.6 Describe the compromises between Federalists and Anti-Federalists that lead to the Bill of Rights.
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8.4 Analyze the challenges and central ideas involved in creating the new nation.
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8.4.1 Evaluate the differences in political opinions of the new federal government that lead to the formation of political parties.
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8.4.2 Distinguish the importance of George Washington's Presidency and his Farewell Address on the American Presidency.
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8.4.3 Analyze the significance of early Supreme Court cases and explain impacts on the United States, including: Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Worcester v. Georgia.
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8.4.4 Assess the United States' development and impact of foreign policy, including: response to the French Revolution, Neutrality Proclamation, Alien and Sedition Acts, XYZ Affair, Embargo Act, impressment, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, etc.
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8.5 Interpret the geographical, social, and political causes, challenges, and effects of westward expansion.
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8.5.1 Assess the reasons that the United States purchased Louisiana from France.
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8.5.2 Discuss the significant of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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8.5.3 Analyze the purpose, challenges, political, racial, religious and economic incentives associated with the concept of Manifest Destiny.
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8.5.4 Summarize Andrew Jackson's roles in the growing United States, including: Jacksonian Era, "Corrupt Bargain", Democratic Party, Bank War, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal, etc.
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8.5.5 Trace Indian Removal including the Cherokees' "Trail of Tears."
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8.5.6 Explain the causes and effects of Texas Independence and Mexican-American War.
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8.6 Interpret the causes, challenges, and effects of the Industrial Revolution.
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8.6.1 Summarize how the Industrial Revolution began in the United States.
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8.6.2 Identify key people and their contributions in the Industrial Revolution.
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8.6.3 Trace the development of transportation and communication systems during the Industrial Revolution.
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8.6.4 Compare and contrast the cultural, religious and social impact in American life that resulted from the Industrial Revolution.
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8.6.5 Assess how geography that led to the location of factories, including: rivers, urban areas, etc.
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8.7 Evaluate the impact of the American social and political reforms on developing American society during the first half of the nineteenth century.
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8.7.1 Summarize the works of formerly enslaved African Americans who worked to lead others to freedom.
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8.7.2 Evaluate abolitionists' roles in bringing the reality of slavery to the nation, including, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.
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8.7.3 Compare and contrast the philosophies of natural rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments, including: phrases such as "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".
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8.7.4 Examine leaders in the women suffrage movement, including: biographies, writings, and speeches of Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and their influence on women's rights.
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8.8 Interpret the social and economic conflicts between the North and South, that would eventually lead to the American Civil War.
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8.8.1 Synthesize prior knowledge of the geography of the Northern states and the Industrial Revolution to explain why slavery did not grow in the North.
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8.8.2 Trace the origins and development of slavery and its impact on the nation's political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development.
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8.8.3 Analyze the impact of the cotton gin on all social classes and the importance of agriculture in antebellum Mississippi.
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8.8.4 Identify major legislation and Supreme Court decisions that strived to both overturn and preserve slavery resulting in sectional strife, including: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Acts, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Decision, Underground Railroad, Quakers' influence, etc.
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8.9 Identify and evaluate the key events and people involved in the American Civil War.
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8.9.1 Analyze the reasons that the North and the South waged war against one another, including: slavery, states' rights.
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8.9.2 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.
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8.9.3 Identify key Northern and Southern political and military leaders and their contributions.
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8.9.4 Evaluate the contributions of women, African Americans and other minority groups to the war effort, including: Clara Barton, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Native Americans.
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8.9.5 Trace the events that led to northern victory in the Civil War, including: total war, industrial, population, resources, and technological advantages.
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8.9.6 Analyze key documents and actions (North and South) during the Civil War, including: Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, draft laws, income tax.
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8.1 Analyze the Reconstruction efforts in post-Civil War America.
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8.10.1 Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans.
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8.10.2 Trace the economic changes in the post-Civil War South, including: Lincoln's Plan, Wade-Davis Bill, Johnson's Plan, Radical Reconstruction.
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8.10.3 Distinguish the roles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments in expanding liberty.
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8.10.4 Examine the Southern resistance to Reconstruction reforms, including: Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Ku Klux Klan, etc.
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