- Understands comparative characteristics of societies in the Americas,
Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted
after 1450
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Understands how early European exploration and colonization resulted
in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected
peoples
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- Understands why the Americas attracted Europeans, why they brought
enslaved Africans to their colonies, and how Europeans struggled
for control of North America and the Caribbean
- Understands how political, religious, and social institutions
emerged in the English colonies
- Understands how the values and institutions of European economic
life took root in the colonies, and how slavery reshaped European
and African life in the Americas
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- Understands the causes of the American Revolution, the ideas
and interests involved in forging the revolutionary movement,
and the reasons for the American victory
- Understands the impact of the American Revolution on politics,
economy, and society
- Understands the institutions and practices of government created
during the Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and
1815 to create the foundation of the American political system
based on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
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- Understands United States territorial expansion between 1801
and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and
Native Americans
- Understands how the industrial revolution, increasing immigration,
the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed
the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions
- Understands the extension, restriction, and reorganization of
political democracy after 1800
- Understands the sources and character of cultural, religious,
and social reform movements in the antebellum period
[SOURCE]
- Understands the causes of the Civil War
- Understands the course and character of the Civil War and its
effects on the American people
- Understands how various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed
[SOURCE]
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NSS-USH.5-12.6 ERA 6: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL UNITED STATES (1870-1900)
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- Understands how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and
mechanized farming transformed the American people
- Understands massive immigration after 1870 and how new social
patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid
growing cultural diversity
- Understands the rise of the American labor movement and how political
issues reflected social and economic changes
- Understands Federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy
after the Civil War
[SOURCE]
- Understands how Progressives and others addressed problems of
industrial capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption
- Understands the changing role of the United States in world affairs
through World War I
- Understands how the United States changed from the end of World
War I to the eve of the Great Depression
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NSS-USH.5-12.8 ERA 8: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II (1929-1945)
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- Understands the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society
- Understands how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression,
transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state
- Understands the causes and course of World War II, the character
of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role
in world affairs
[SOURCE]
- Understands the economic boom and social transformation of postwar
United States
- Understands how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam
influenced domestic and international politics
- Understands domestic policies after World War II
- Understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and the
extension of civil liberties
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- Understands recent developments in foreign and domestic politics
- Understands economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary
United States
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