Rhode Island State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 8

RI.1. Civics and Government: Civic Life, Politics, and Government.

1.a. Student should be able to explain the meaning of the terms civic life, politics, and government. 32
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1.b. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on why government is necessary and the purposes government should serve. 21
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1.c. Student should be able to describe the essential characteristics of limited and unlimited government. 32
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1.d. Student should be able to explain the importance of the rule of law for the protection of individual rights and the common good. 23
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1.e. Student should be able to explain alternative uses of the term constitution and to distinguish between governments with a constitution and a constitutional government. 24
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1.f. Student should be able to explain the various purposes constitutions serve. 9
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1.g. Students will be able to explain those conditions that are essential for the flourishing of constitutional government. 6
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1.h. Student should be able to describe the major characteristics of systems of shared powers and of parliamentary systems. 18
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1.i. Student should be able to explain the advantages and disadvantages of confederal, federal, and unitary systems of government. 40
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RI.2. Civics and Government: Foundations of the American Political System.

2.a. Student should be able to explain the essential ideas of American constitutional government. 4
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2.b. Student should be able to identify and explain the importance of historical experience and geographic, social, and economic factors that have helped to shape American society. 3
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2.c. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on the importance of voluntarism in American society. 32
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2.d. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on the value and challenges of diversity in American life. 10
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2.e. Student should be able to explain the importance of shared political values and principles to American society. 7
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2.f. Student should be able to describe the character of American political conflict and explain factors that usually prevent violence or that lower its intensity. 7
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2.g. Student should be able to explain the meaning and importance of the fundamental values and principles of American democracy. 9
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2.h. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues in which fundamental values and principles are in conflict. 34
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2.i. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues concerning ways and means to reduce disparities between American ideals and realities. 12
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RI.3. Civics and Government: Purposes, Values, and Principles of American Democracy.

3.a. Student should be able to explain how the powers of the national government are distributed, shared, and limited. 12
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3.b. Student should be able to explain how and why powers are distributed and shared between national and state governments in the federal system. 17
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3.c. Student should be able to explain the major responsibilities of the national government and foreign policy. 24
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3.d. Student should be able to explain the necessity of taxes and the purposes for which taxes are used. 8
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3.e. Student should be able to explain why states have constitutions, their purposes, and the relationship of state constitutions to federal constitutions. 9
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3.f. Student should be able to describe the organization and major responsibilities of state and local governments. 8
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3.g. Student should be able to identify their representatives in the legislative branches as well as the heads of the executive branches of their local, state, and national governments. 1
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3.h. Student should be able to explain the importance of law in the American constitutional system. 15
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3.i. Student should be able to explain and apply criteria useful in evaluating rules and laws. 17
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3.j. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on current issues regarding judicial protection of individual rights. 16
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3.k. Student should be able to explain what is meant by the public agenda. 7
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3.l. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on the influence of the media on American political life. 4
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3.m. Student should be able to explain how political parties, campaigns, and elections provide opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process. 14
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3.n. Student should be able to explain how interest groups, unions, and professional organizations provide opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process. 6
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3.o. Student should be able to explain how public policy is formed and carried out at local, state, and national levels and what roles individuals can play in the process. 10
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RI.4. Civics and Government: World Affairs.

4.a. Student should be able to explain how the world is organized politically. 28
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4.b. Student should be able to explain how nation-states interact with each other. 9
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4.c. Student should be able to explain how the United States foreign policy is made and the means by which it is carried out. 15
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4.d. Student should be able to explain the role of major international organizations in the world today. 15
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4.e. Student should be able to describe the influence of American political idea on other nations. 15
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4.f. Student should be able to explain the effects of significant political, demographic, and environmental trends in the world. 3
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RI.5. Civics and Government: Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy.

5.a. Student should be able to explain the meaning of American citizenship. 4
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5.b. Student should be able to explain how one becomes a citizen of the United States. 4
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5.c. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on the issue involving personal rights. 4
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5.d. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues involving political rights. 6
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5.e. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues involving economic rights. 8
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5.f. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues regarding the proper scope and limits of rights. 6
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5.g. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on the importance of personal responsibilities to the individual and to society. 20
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5.h. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on the importance of civic responsibilities to the individual and society. 6
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5.i. Student should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on the importance of certain dispositions or traits of character to themselves and American constitutional democracy. 10
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5.j. Student should be able to explain the relationship between participating in civic and political life and the attainment of individual and public goals. 32
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5.k. Student should be able to explain the difference between political and social participation. 31
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5.l. Student should be able to describe the means by which Americans can monitor and influence politics and government. 20
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5.m. Student should be able to explain the importance of political leadership and public service in a constitutional democracy. 4
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5.n. Student should be able to explain the importance of knowledge to competent and responsible participation in American democracy. 15
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RI.1. Geography: The World in Spatial Terms.

1.a. Student knows and understands the characteristics, functions, and applications of maps, globes, aerial and other photographs, satellite-produced images, and models. 12
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1.b. Student knows and understands how to make and use maps, globes, graphs, charts, models, and databases to analyze spatial distributions and patterns. 13
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1.c. Student knows and understands the relative advantages and disadvantages of using maps, globes, aerial and other photographs, satellite-produced images, and models to solve geographic problems. 12
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1.d. Student knows and understands the distribution of major physical and human features at different scales (local to global). 12
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1.e. Student knows and understands how to translate mental maps into appropriate graphics to display geographic information and answer geographic questions. 12
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1.f. Student knows and understands how perception influences people's mental maps and attitudes about places. 12
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1.g. Student knows and understands how to use the elements of space to describe spatial patterns. 6
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1.h. Student knows and understands how to use spatial concepts to explain spatial structure. 6
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1.i. Student knows and understands how spatial processes shape patterns of spatial organization. 6
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1.j. Student knows and understands how to model spatial organization. 6
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RI.2. Geography: Places and Regions.

2.a. Student knows and understands the physical characteristics of places (e.g., landforms, bodies of water, soil, vegetation, and weather and climate). 12
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2.b. Student knows and understands the human characteristics of places (e.g., population distributions, settlement patterns, languages, ethnicity, nationality, and religious beliefs). 29
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2.c. Student knows and understands how physical and human processes together shape places. 9
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2.d. Student knows and understands the elements and types of regions. 1
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2.e. Student knows and understands how and why regions change. 2
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2.f. Student knows and understands the connections among regions. 1
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2.g. Student knows and understands the influences and effects of regional labels and images. 1
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2.h. Student knows and understands how personal characteristics affect our perception of places and regions. 3
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2.i. Student knows and understands how culture and technology affect perception of places and regions. 5
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2.j. Student knows and understands how places and regions serve as cultural symbols. 3
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RI.3. Geography: Physical Systems.

3.a. Student knows and understands how physical processes shape patterns in the physical environment. 7
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3.b. Student knows and understands how Earth-Sun relationships affect physical processes and patterns on Earth. 4
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3.c. Student knows and understands how physical processes influence the formation and distribution of resources. 5
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3.d. Student knows and understands how to predict the consequences of physical processes on Earth's surface. 10
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3.e. Student knows and understands the local and global patterns of ecosystems. 4
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3.f. Student knows and understands how ecosystems work. 4
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3.g. Student knows and understands how physical processes produce changes in ecosystems. 4
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3.h. Student knows and understands how human activities influence changes in ecosystems. 43
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RI.4. Geography: Human Systems.

4.a. Student knows and understands the demographic structure of a population. 6
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4.b. Student knows and understands the reasons for spatial variations in population distribution. 6
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4.c. Student knows and understands the types and historical patterns of human migration. 18
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4.d. Student knows and understands the effects of migration on the characteristics of places. 16
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4.e. Student knows and understands the spatial distribution of culture at different scales (local to global). 7
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4.f. Student knows and understands how to read elements of the landscape as a mirror of culture. 6
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4.g. Student knows and understands the processes of cultural diffusion. 4
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4.h. Student knows and understands ways to classify economic activity. 5
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4.i. Student knows and understands the basis for global interdependence. 10
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4.j. Student knows and understands reasons for the spatial patterns of economic activities. 10
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4.k. Student knows and understands how changes in technology, transportation, and communication affect the location of economic activities. 8
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4.l. Student knows and understands the spatial patterns of settlement in different regions of the world. 11
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4.m. Student knows and understands what human events led to the development of cities. 5
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4.n. Student knows and understands the causes and consequences of urbanization. 5
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4.o. Student knows and understands the internal spatial structure of urban settlements. 6
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4.p. Student knows and understands the multiple territorial divisions of the student's own world. 10
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4.q. Student knows and understands how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to political divisions of Earth's surface. 19
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4.r. Student knows and understands how cooperation and conflict among people contribute to economic and social divisions of Earth's surface. 7
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RI.5. Geography: Environment and Society.

5.a. Student knows and understands the consequences of human modification of the physical environment. 43
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5.b. Student knows and understands how human modifications of the physical environment in one place often lead to changes in other places. 38
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5.c. Student knows and understands the role of technology in the human modification of the physical environment. 11
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5.d. Student knows and understands human responses to variations in physical systems. 6
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5.e. Student knows and understands how the characteristics of different physical environments provide opportunities for or place constraints on human activities. 1
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5.f. Student knows and understands how natural hazards affect human activities. 9
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5.g. Student knows and understands the worldwide distribution and use of resources. 39
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5.h. Student knows and understands why people have different viewpoints regarding resource use. 43
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5.i. Student knows and understands how technology affects the definitions of, access to, and use of resources. 44
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5.j. Student knows and understands the fundamental role of energy resources in society. 34
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RI.6. Geography: Uses of Geography.

6.a. Student knows and understands how the spatial organization of a society changes over time. 5
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6.b. Student knows and understands how people's differing perceptions of places, peoples, and resources have affected events and conditions in the past. 6
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6.c. Student knows and understands how geographic contexts have influenced events and conditions in the past. 15
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6.d. Student knows and understands how the interaction of physical and human systems may shape present and future conditions on Earth. 44
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6.e. Student knows and understands how varying points of view on geographic context influence plans for change. 14
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6.f. Student knows and understands how to apply the geographic point of view to solve social and environmental problems by making geographically informed decisions. 16
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RI.1. History: Chronological Thinking.

1.a. The student distinguishes between past, present, and future time. 7
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1.b. The student identifies in historical narratives the temporal structure of a historical narrative or story. 3
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1.c. The student establishes temporal order in constructing historical narratives of their own. 8
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1.d. The student measures and calculates calendar time. 3
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1.e. The student interprets data presented in time lines. 8
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1.f. The student reconstructs patterns of historical succession and duration. 8
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1.g. The student compares alternative models for periodization. 8
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RI.2. History: Historical Comprehension.

2.a. The student reconstructs the literal meaning of a historical passage. 15
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2.b. The student identifies the central question(s) the historical narrative addresses. 15
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2.c. The student reads historical narratives imaginatively. 3
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2.d. The student evidences historical perspectives. 15
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2.e. The student draws upon data in historical maps. 11
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2.f. The student utilizes visual and mathematical data presented in charts, tables, pie and bar graphs, flow charts, Venn diagrams, and other graphic organizers. 7
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2.g. The student draws upon visual, literary, and musical sources. 12
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RI.3. History: Historical Analysis and Interpretation.

3.a. The student identifies the author or source of the historical document or narrative. 7
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3.b. The student compares and contrasts differing sets of ideas, values, personalities, behaviors, and institutions. 23
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3.c. The student differentiates between historical facts and historical interpretations. 17
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3.d. The student considers multiple perspectives. 15
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3.e. The student analyzes cause-and-effect relationships and multiple causation, including the importance of the individual, the influence of ideas, and the role of chance. 21
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3.f. The student challenges arguments of historical inevitability. 15
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3.g. The student compares competing historical narratives. 25
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3.h. The student holds interpretations of history as tentative. 3
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3.i. The student evaluates major debates among historians. 33
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3.j. The student hypothesizes the influence of the past. 3
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RI.4. History: Historical Research Capabilities.

4.a. The student formulates historical questions. 3
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4.b. The student obtains historical data. 3
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4.c. The student interrogates historical data. 3
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4.d. The student identifies the gaps in the available records, marshal contextual knowledge and perspectives of the time and place, and construct a sound historical interpretation. 10
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RI.5. History: Historical Issues: Analysis and Decision Making.

5.a. The student identifies the issues and problems in the past. 17
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5.b. The student marshals evidence of antecedent circumstances and contemporary factors contributing to problems and alternative courses of action. 39
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5.c. The student identifies relevant historical antecedents. 24
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5.d. The student evaluates alternative courses of action. 24
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5.e. The student formulates a position or course of action on an issue. 15
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5.f. The student evaluates the implementation of a decision. 15
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RI.1. United States History: Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginning 1620).

1.a. The student compares characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe, and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450. 13
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1.b. The student knows and understands how early European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples. 13
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RI.2. United States History: Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763).

2.a. The student knows and understands why the Americas attracted Europeans, why they brought enslaved Africans to their colonies, and how Europeans struggled for control on North America and the Caribbean. 11
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2.b. The student knows and understands how political, religious, and social institutions emerged in the English colonies. 5
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2.c. The student knows and understands how the values and institutions of European economic life took root in the colonies, and how slavery reshaped European and African life in the Americas. 8
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RI.3. United States History: Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754-1820s).

3.a. The student knows and understands the causes of the American Revolution, the ideas and interests involved in forging the revolutionary movement, and the reasons for the American victory. 14
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3.b. The student knows and understands the impact of the American Revolution on politics, economy and society. 13
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3.c. The student knows and understands the institutions and practices of government created during the Revolution and how they were revised between 1787 and 1815 to create the foundation of the American political system based on the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. 13
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RI.4. United States History: Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861).

4.a. The student knows and understands the territorial expansion of the United States between 1801 and 1861, and how it affected relations with external powers and Native Americans. 20
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4.b. The student knows and understands how the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions. 7
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4.c. The student knows and understands the extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800. 10
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4.d. The student knows and understands the sources and character of cultural, religious, and social reform movements in the antebellum period. 8
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RI.5. United States History: Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877).

5.a. The student knows and understands the causes of the Civil War. 9
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5.b. The student knows and understands the course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people. 15
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5.c. The student knows and understands how various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed. 11
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RI.6. United States History: Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900).

6.a. The student knows and understands how the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people. 13
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6.b. The student knows and understands the massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity. 6
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6.c. The student knows and understands the rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes. 11
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6.d. The student knows and understands Federal Indian policy and the United States foreign policy after the Civil War. 13
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RI.7. United States History: Era 7: The Emergency of Modern America (1890-1930).

7.a. The student knows and understands how Progressives and others addressed problems of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption. 3
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7.b. The student knows and understands the changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War I. 16
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7.c. The student knows and understands how the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression. 17
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RI.8. United States History: Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945).

8.a. The student knows and understands the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American Society. 4
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8.b. The student knows and understands how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state. 10
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8.c. The student knows and understands the causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs. 19
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RI.9. United States History: Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s).

9.a. The student knows and understands the economic boom and social transformation of postwar United States. 25
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9.b. The student knows and understands how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics. 19
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9.c. The student knows and understands domestic policies after World War II. 11
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9.d. The student knows and understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil Liberties. 12
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RI.10. United States History: Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present).

10.a. The student knows and understands recent developments in foreign and domestic polities. 15
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10.b. The student knows and understands economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States. 15
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RI.1. World History: Era 1: The Beginnings of Human Society.

1.a. The student knows and understands the biological and cultural processes that gave rise to the earliest human communities. 3
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1.b. The student knows and understands the process that led to the emergency of agricultural societies around the world. 3
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RI.2. World History: Era 2: Early Civilizations and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples, 4000-1000 BCE.

2.a. The student knows and understands the biological and cultural processes that gave rise to the earliest human communities. 3
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2.b. The student knows and understands the processes that led to the emergency of agricultural societies around the world. 3
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2.c. The student knows and understands the major characteristics of civilization and how civilizations emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. 12
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2.d. The student knows and understands how agrarian societies spread and new states emerged in the third and second millennia BCE. 8
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RI.3. World History: Era 3: Classical Traditions, Major Religions, and Giant Empires, 1000 BCE-300 CE.

3.a. The student knows and understands the innovation and change from 1000-600 BCE: horses, ships, iron, and monotheistic faith. 17
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3.b. The student knows and understands the emergency of Aegean civilization and how interrelations developed among peoples of the eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia, 600-200 BCE. 3
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3.c. The student knows and understands how major religions and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean basin, China, and India, 500 BCE-300 CE. 2
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3.d. The student knows and understands the development of early agrarian civilizations in Mesoamerica. 10
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3.e. The student knows and understands major global trends from 1000 BCE-300 CE. 11
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RI.4. World History: Era 4: Expanding Zones of Exchange and Encounter, 300-1000 CE.

4.a. The student knows and understands the Imperial crises and their aftermath, 300-700 CE. 3
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4.b. The student knows and understands the causes and consequences of the rise of Islamic civilization in the 7th-10th centuries. 12
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4.c. The student knows and understands major developments in East Asia and Southeast Asia in the era of the Tang dynasty, 600-900 CE. 5
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4.d. The student knows and understands the search for political, social, and cultural redefinition in Europe, 500-1000 CE. 6
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4.e. The student knows and understands the development of agricultural societies and new states in tropical Africa and Oceania. 3
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4.f. The student knows and understands the rise of centers of civilization in Mesoamerica and Andean South America in the first millennium CE. 10
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4.g. The student knows and understands the major global trends from 3000-1000 CE. 10
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RI.5. World History: Era 5: Intensified Hemispheric Interactions, 1000-1500 CE.

5.a. The student knows and understands the maturing of an interregional system of communication, trade, and cultural exchange in an era of Chinese economic power and Islamic expansion. 5
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5.b. The student knows and understands the redefining of European society and culture, 1000-1300 CE. 3
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5.c. The student knows and understands the rise of the Mongol empire and its consequences for Eurasian peoples, 1200-1300. 3
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5.d. The student knows and understands the growth of states, towns, and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa between the 11th and 15th centuries. 2
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5.e. The student knows and understands the patterns of crisis and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450. 8
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5.f. The student knows and understands the expansion of states and civilizations in the Americas, 1000-1500. 16
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5.g. The student knows and understands the major global trends from 1000-1500 CE. 10
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RI.6. World History: Era 6: The Emergency of the First Global Age, 1450-1770.

6.a. The student knows and understands how the transoceanic inter-linking of all major regions of the world from 1450-1600 led to global transformations. 14
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6.b. The student knows and understands how European society experienced political, economic, and cultural transformations in an age of global intercommunication, 1450-1750. 9
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6.c. The student knows and understands how large territorial empires dominated much of Eurasia between the 16th and 18th centuries. 3
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6.d. The student knows and understands economic, political, and cultural interrelations among peoples of Africa, Europe and the Americas, 1500-1750. 8
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6.e. The student knows and understands transformations in Asian societies in the era of European expansion. 6
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6.f. The student knows and understands the major global trends from 1450-1770. 10
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RI.7. World History: Era 7: An Age of Revolutions 1750-1914.

7.a. The student knows and understands the causes and consequences of political revolutions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. 17
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7.b. The student knows and understands the causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions 1700-1850. 5
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7.c. The student knows and understands the transformation of Eurasian societies in an era of global trade and rising European power, 1750-1870. 19
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7.d. The student knows and understands patterns of nationalism, state building, and social reform in Europe and the Americas, 1830-1914. 23
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7.e. The student knows and understands patterns of global change in the era of Western military and economic domination, 1800-1914. 23
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7.f. The student knows and understands the major global trends from 1750-1914. 23
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RI.8. World History: Era 8: A Half-Century of Crisis and Achievement, 1900-1945.

8.a. The student knows and understands the reform, revolution, and social change in the world economy of the early century. 7
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8.b. The student knows and understands the causes and global consequences of World War I. 8
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8.c. The student knows and understands the search for peace and stability in the 1920s and 1930s. 17
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8.d. The student knows and understands the causes and global consequences of World War II. 3
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8.e. The student knows and understands the major global trends from 1900 to the end of World War II. 27
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RI.9. World History: Era 9: The 20th Century Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes.

9.a. The student knows and understands how post-World War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations took shape, and colonial empires broke up. 11
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9.b. The student knows and understands the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world. 10
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9.c. The student knows and understands the major global trends since World War II. 18
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RI.10. World History: World History Across the Eras.

10.a. The student knows and understands the long-term changes and recurring patterns in world history. 8
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