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HSS-5.8.6 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-5.8.6
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 5
Course: United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation, Grade 5

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.8 Students trace the colonization, immigration, and settlement patterns of the American people from 1789 to the mid-1800s, with emphasis on the role of economic incentives, effects of the physical and political geography, and transportation systems.

Standard:
Relate how and when California, Texas, Oregon, and other western lands became part of the United States, including the significance of the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War.

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