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Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Analyze the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence, with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights (e.g., key phrases such as “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Analyze how the American Revolution affected other nations, especially France.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Describe the nation’s blend of civic republicanism, classical liberal principles, and English parliamentary traditions.

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Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Compare the conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority as emphasized in the speeches and writings of statesmen such as Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.

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HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Trace the boundaries constituting the North and the South, the geographical differences between the two regions, and the differences between agrarians and industrialists.

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HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Identify the constitutional issues posed by the doctrine of nullification and secession and the earliest origins of that doctrine.

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HSS-8.10 Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

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Discuss Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and his significant writings and speeches and their relationship to the Declaration of Independence, such as his “House Divided” speech (1858), Gettysburg Address (1863), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and inaugural addresses (1861 and 1865).