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HSS-5.1.3 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-5.1.3
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 5
Course: United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation, Grade 5

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.1 Students describe the major pre-Columbian settlements, including the cliff dwellers and pueblo people of the desert Southwest, the American Indians of the Pacific Northwest, the nomadic nations of the Great Plains, and the woodland peoples east of the Mississippi River.

Standard:
Explain their varied economies and systems of government.

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