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HSS-8.8.3 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-8.8.3
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 8
Course: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict, Grade 8

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.8 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

Standard:
Describe the role of pioneer women and the new status that western women achieved (e.g., Laura Ingalls Wilder, Annie Bidwell; slave women gaining freedom in the West; Wyoming granting suffrage to women in 1869).

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