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Standard Identifier: HSS-8.9.4

Grade: 8
Course: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict, Grade 8

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

Standard:
Discuss the importance of the slavery issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and California’s admission to the union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.

Standard Identifier: HSS-8.9.5

Grade: 8
Course: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict, Grade 8

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

Standard:
Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858).

Standard Identifier: HSS-8.9.6

Grade: 8
Course: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict, Grade 8

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

Standard:
Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and economic opportunities.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.1

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Standard:
Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.1.1

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

Standard:
Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.1.2

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

Standard:
Analyze the ideological origins of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers’ philosophy of divinely bestowed unalienable natural rights, the debates on the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, and the addition of the Bill of Rights.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.1.3

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

Standard:
Understand the history of the Constitution after 1787 with emphasis on federal versus state authority and growing democratization.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.1.4

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.1 Students analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.

Standard:
Examine the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction and of the industrial revolution, including demographic shifts and the emergence in the late nineteenth century of the United States as a world power.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.10

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Standard:
Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.10.1

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.

Standard:
Explain how demands of African Americans helped produce a stimulus for civil rights, including President Roosevelt’s ban on racial discrimination in defense industries in 1941, and how African Americans’ service in World War II produced a stimulus for President Truman’s decision to end segregation in the armed forces in 1948.

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