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HSS-8.6.7 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-8.6.7
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 8
Course: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict, Grade 8

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.6 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.

Standard:
Identify common themes in American art as well as transcendentalism and individualism (e.g., writings about and by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

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