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Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

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Identify the push-pull factors in the movement of former slaves to the cities in the North and to the West and their differing experiences in those regions (e.g., the experiences of Buffalo Soldiers).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

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Understand the effects of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the restrictions placed on the rights and opportunities of freedmen, including racial segregation and “Jim Crow” laws.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

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Trace the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and describe the Klan’s effects.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.11 Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.

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Understand the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution and analyze their connection to Reconstruction.

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Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

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Trace patterns of agricultural and industrial development as they relate to climate, use of natural resources, markets, and trade and locate such development on a map.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

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Identify the reasons for the development of federal Indian policy and the wars with American Indians and their relationship to agricultural development and industrialization.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

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Explain how states and the federal government encouraged business expansion through tariffs, banking, land grants, and subsidies.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

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Discuss entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers in politics, commerce, and industry (e.g., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Leland Stanford).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.12 Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.

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Examine the location and effects of urbanization, renewed immigration, and industrialization (e.g., the effects on social fabric of cities, wealth and economic opportunity, the conservation movement).