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Geographical Regions1.2b Locate and describe the location of the geographic regions of North America: Coastal Plain, Appalachian Highlands, Canadian Shield, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Basin and Range, and Coastal Range.
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Bodies of Water1.2c Locate and identify the water features important to the early history of the United States: Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Ohio River, Columbia River, Colorado River, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence River, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Gulf of Mexico.
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First Americans1.3a Describe how archaeologists have recovered material evidence of ancient settlements including Cactus Hill in Virginia.
1.3b Locate where the American Indians lived with emphasis on Arctic (Inuit), Northwest (Kwakiutl), Plains (Lakota), Southwest (Pueblo), and Eastern Woodlands (Iroquois). 1.3c Describe how the American Indians used the resources in their environment. . . |
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Exploration & African Kingdoms1.4a Describe the motivations, obstacles, and accomplishments of the Spanish, French, Portuguese, and English explorations.
1.4b Describe cultural and economic interactions between Europeans and American Indians that led to cooperation and conflict with emphasis on the American Indian concept of land. 1.4c Identify the location and describing the characteristics of West African societies (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai) and their interactions with traders. . |
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Early English Colonies1.5a Describe the religious and economic events and conditions that led to the colonization of America.
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13 Colonies & Colonial People1.5b Describe life in the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies with emphasis on how people interacted with their environment to produce goods and services, including examples of specialization and interdependence.
1.5c Describe colonial life in America from the perspectives of large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, free African Americans, indentured servants, and enslaved African Americans. 1.5d Identify the political and economic relationships between the colonies and Great Britain. . |
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Revolutionary War People1.6c Describe key events and the roles of key individuals in the American Revolution, with emphasis on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry.
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Revolutionary War Events1.5d Identify the political and economic relationships between the colonies and Great Britain.
1.6a Identify the issues of dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution. 1.6b Identify how political ideas shaped the revolutionary movement in America and led to the Declaration of Independence. 1.6c Describe key events and the roles of key individuals in the American Revolution, with emphasis on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Patrick Henry. 1.6d Explain reasons why the colonies were able to defeat the British. . |
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New Nation (Government)1.6b Identify how political ideas shaped the revolutionary movement in America and led to the Declaration of Independence.
1.7a Identify the weaknesses of the government established by the Articles of Confederation. 1.7b Describe the historical developments of the Constitution of the United States. . |
First 5 Presidents (Political Parties*) 1.7c Describe the major accomplishments of the first five presidents of the United States.
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Westward Expansion & Inventions 1.8a Describe territorial expansion and how it affected the political map of the United States, with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the acquisitions of Florida, Texas, Oregon, and California.
1.8b Identify the geographic and economic factors that influenced the westward movement of settlers 1.8c Describe the impact of inventions, including the cotton gin, the reaper, the steamboat, and the steam locomotive, on life in America. . |
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Abolition & Suffrage Movements 1.8d Identify the main ideas of the abolitionist and suffrage movements.
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North & South Divided 1.9a Describe the cultural, economic, and constitutional issues that divided the nation.
1.9b Explain how the issues of states’ rights and slavery increased sectional tensions. 1.9c Identify on a map the states that seceded from the Union and those that remained in the Union. . |
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Civil War People1.9d Describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Frederick Douglass in events leading to and during the war.
1.9f Describe the effects of war from the perspectives of Union and Confederate soldiers (including black soldiers), women, and enslaved African Americans. . |
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Civil War Events 1.9e Use maps to explain critical developments in the war, including major battles.
1.9f Describe the effects of war from the perspectives of Union and Confederate soldiers (including black soldiers), women, and enslaved African Americans. . |
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