Maryland

1 Colonization (1607–1754)

• 1.1 Interactions in the New World

  • 8.1.1 Students will evaluate the interaction of European, African, and Native cultures in colonial America by:

    • 8.1.1.a Describing the varied cultures and geographic distribution of Native populations in North America prior to European arrival.

      • Pre-contact Native peoples: introduction (8-H.1)
      • Native peoples of the Southwest (8-H.2)

    • 8.1.1.b Assessing the range of reactions of Native populations to the colonization of North America.

    • 8.1.1.c Analyzing the factors causing European migration to North America.

      • New England Colonies: founding and government (8-K.5)
      • Middle Colonies: founding and government (8-K.7)
      • Southern Colonies: founding and government (8-K.9)

    • 8.1.1.d Identifying the causes and impacts of slavery in colonial North America.

      • Middle Colonies: economy and society (8-K.8)
      • Southern Colonies: economy and slavery (8-K.10)

• 1.2 Colonial North America

  • 8.1.2 Students will analyze how geography and economics influenced the location and development of Colonial North American regions by:

    • 8.1.2.a Comparing the economic, political, social, religious, and ethnic composition of colonial regions of New England, the mid-Atlantic, the Chesapeake, and the South.

      • New England Colonies: founding and government (8-K.5)
      • New England Colonies: economy and interactions with Native Americans (8-K.6)
      • Middle Colonies: founding and government (8-K.7)
      • Middle Colonies: economy and society (8-K.8)
      • Southern Colonies: founding and government (8-K.9)
      • Southern Colonies: economy and slavery (8-K.10)

    • 8.1.2.b Evaluating the impact of mercantilism on the political and economic relationship between the North American colonies and Great Britain.

      • Causes of the American Revolution: introduction to mercantilism and the Navigation Acts (8-L.3)

2 The American Revolution (1754–1783)

• 2.1 French and Indian War

  • 8.2.1 Students will analyze the causes and consequences of the conflict among and between American Indians and European colonies by:

    • 8.2.1.a Explaining the sources of conflict among and between American Indians, European powers, and Americans' migrating west of the Appalachian Mountains.

      • Causes of the American Revolution: the French and Indian War (8-L.1)

    • 8.2.1.b Assessing how the French and Indian War impacted American Indian alliances, British colonial policies, and American colonists.

      • Causes of the American Revolution: the French and Indian War (8-L.1)

• 2.2 British Acts and Colonial Acts of Resistance

  • 8.2.2 Students will evaluate the significance of the end of salutary neglect as a turning point in American History by:

    • 8.2.2.a Analyzing the effect of British policies on the American colonies.

      • Causes of the American Revolution: politics and society (8-L.2)
      • Causes of the American Revolution: introduction to mercantilism and the Navigation Acts (8-L.3)
      • Causes of the American Revolution: new taxes and colonial response (8-L.4)
      • Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (8-L.9)

    • 8.2.2.b Evaluating the effectiveness of the methods of colonial resistance to British policies.

      • Causes of the American Revolution: politics and society (8-L.2)
      • Causes of the American Revolution: new taxes and colonial response (8-L.4)
      • Source analysis: the Boston Massacre (8-L.9)

    • 8.2.2.c Identifying the principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

      • Source analysis: the Declaration of Independence (8-L.10)

• 2.3 The American Revolution

  • 8.2.3 Students will evaluate the relative importance of key factors that led to an American victory in the Revolutionary War by:

    • 8.2.3.a Analyzing the domestic, military, geographic, and diplomatic factors that led to the American defeat of the British.

      • The Revolutionary War: preparing for war (8-L.5)
      • The Revolutionary War: struggle for independence (8-L.6)
      • The Revolutionary War: turning the tide of war (8-L.7)
      • The Revolutionary War: conclusion and aftermath (8-L.8)

    • 8.2.3.b Assessing how free and enslaved African Americans, women, and American Indians, contributed to and were impacted by the American Revolution.

3 Founding of the New Government (1776–1791)

• 3.1 The Articles of Confederation

  • 8.3.1 Students will evaluate the historical significance of the Articles of Confederation by:

    • 8.3.1.a Explaining the structure and the powers of the Articles of Confederation.

      • The Articles of Confederation (8-M.1)

    • 8.3.1.b Analyzing the success and failures of the Articles of Confederation.

      • The Articles of Confederation (8-M.1)

• 3.2 Constitutional Convention

  • 8.3.2 Students will evaluate the reasons for the development of the United States Constitution by:

    • 8.3.2.a Describing the purpose of the Constitutional Convention.

      • The Constitutional Convention (8-M.2)

    • 8.3.2.b Analyzing how the Great Compromise addressed regional interests and differences.

      • The Constitutional Convention (8-M.2)

    • 8.3.2.c Describing the sectional debate over slavery and how the Constitution addressed slavery and freedom.

      • The Constitutional Convention (8-M.2)

• 3.3 United States Constitution

  • 8.3.3 Students will evaluate the impact of the Constitution on the structure of the United States government by:

    • 8.3.3.a Identifying the goals of the Constitution as stated in the Preamble.

      • The Constitution: structure and principles (8-B.1)

    • 8.3.3.b Explaining how the Constitution embeds key principles of checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism, popular sovereignty, individual rights, and limited government.

      • Checks and balances (8-A.5)
      • The Constitution: structure and principles (8-B.1)

    • 8.3.3.c Identifying the powers enumerated and denied to each branch of government as outlined in the Constitution.

      • The Legislative Branch (8-A.2)
      • The Executive Branch (8-A.3)
      • The Judicial Branch (8-A.4)

• 3.4 Ratification and the Bill of Rights

  • 8.3.4 Students will analyze how the Bill of Rights resolved the issues over the ratification of the Constitution by:

    • 8.3.4.a Analyzing the Federalist and Anti-Federalist arguments for and against the ratification of the Constitution.

    • 8.3.4.b Evaluating the impact of the Bill of Rights on the ratification of the Constitution.

4 A New Nation (1787–1825)

• 4.1 The Early Republic

  • 8.4.1 Students will evaluate the short- and long-term impact of government decisions made during Federalist administrations by:

    • 8.4.1.a Identifying the impact President George Washington had on setting precedents for the office of the President.

      • Washington's presidency: part I (8-M.3)
      • Washington's presidency: part II (8-M.4)

    • 8.4.1.b Evaluating the evolution and impact of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties on domestic and foreign policy.

      • The first party system: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans (8-M.5)

    • 8.4.1.c Explaining the impact of Marbury v. Madison (1803) on the power of the Supreme Court.

      • The Marshall Court (8-M.6)

• 4.2 The Early Republic

  • 8.4.2 Students will evaluate the historical significance of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States by:

    • 8.4.2.a Analyzing the diplomatic and constitutional challenges involved in the Louisiana Purchase.

      • The Louisiana Purchase (8-M.7)

    • 8.4.2.b Assessing the political and economic impact of the Louisiana Purchase and its impact on the United States relations with native populations.

      • The Louisiana Purchase (8-M.7)

• 4.3 The Second War of Independence

  • 8.4.3 Students will analyze the emerging foreign policy of the United States by:

    • 8.4.3.a Identifying the domestic and foreign causes of the War of 1812.

      • The War of 1812 (8-M.8)

    • 8.4.3.b Explaining the political, geographic, and military factors that led to the American defeat of the British.

    • 8.4.3.c Analyzing how the War of 1812 impacted Native tribes, American political parties, and American nationalism.

      • The War of 1812 (8-M.8)

5 Geographic Expansion and Political Division (1820–1860)

• 5.1 Sectional Growth

  • 8.5.1 Students will analyze the influence of industrialization, technological, and demographic changes on society by:

    • 8.5.1.a Assessing the impact of technological developments in communication and transportation.

      • Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (8-O.1)

    • 8.5.1.b Evaluating the growth of the factory system and its impacts on labor, women, and migration.

      • Industrial and Transportation Revolutions (8-O.1)
      • Comparing the North and the South (8-O.2)
      • Antebellum immigration (8-O.4)

    • 8.5.1.c Assessing the impact of the Supreme Court of John Marshall on national power and economic growth.

      • The Marshall Court (8-M.6)

    • 8.5.1.d Identifying the push and pull factors driving antebellum immigration.

      • Antebellum immigration (8-O.4)

• 5.2 Slavery

  • 8.5.2 Students will examine the institution, conditions, and expansion of slavery while analyzing methods of social and political resistance by:

    • 8.5.2.a Evaluating the impact of technology on the geographic expansion of the institution of slavery.

    • 8.5.2.b Analyzing the conditions that defined life for the enslaved.

      • Slavery in the South (8-O.5)

    • 8.5.2.c Contrasting the various ways in which enslaved African Americans and free blacks resisted enslavement, oppression, and institutionalized racism.

      • The abolitionists (8-O.6)

    • 8.5.2.d Evaluating the effectiveness of the Missouri Compromise in resolving the influence of slavery on politics and sectionalism.

      • Causes of the Civil War: Missouri Compromise to Bleeding Kansas (8-O.9)

• 5.3 Jacksonian Era

  • 8.5.3 Students will evaluate the political, economic, and social impact of Jacksonian Democracy by:

    • 8.5.3.a Explaining the impact of President Andrew Jackson's presidency on sectional politics, democracy, electoral processes, and the economy.

      • Jacksonian Democracy (8-N.1)
      • Tariff, nullification, and bank war (8-N.2)
      • Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears (8-N.3)

    • 8.5.3.b Contrasting the Native and American arguments surrounding the issue of American Indian rights and land ownership.

      • Indian Removal and the Trail of Tears (8-N.3)

• 5.4 Social Reform Movements

  • 8.5.4 Students will analyze the impact of antebellum reform movements on American politics and society by:

    • 8.5.4.a Evaluating the impact of social reform movements on temperance, prison, and educational reform.

      • Antebellum reform movements (8-O.3)

    • 8.5.4.b Tracing the evolution, arguments, and impacts of the antebellum women's movement.

      • Antebellum reform movements (8-O.3)

    • 8.5.4.c Identifying the methods, arguments, and impacts of the abolitionist movement.

      • The abolitionists (8-O.6)

• 5.5 Westward Expansion

  • 8.5.5 Students will evaluate the political, social, and economic impact of westward expansion on individuals and groups by:

    • 8.5.5.a Assessing multiple perspectives on Manifest Destiny and its impacts on territorial possession.

      • Texas independence and annexation (8-O.7)
      • The U.S.-Mexican War (8-O.8)

    • 8.5.5.b Analyzing the consequences of the rapid settlement of California, Oregon, and Texas.

      • Texas independence and annexation (8-O.7)

    • 8.5.5.c Explaining the causes, course, and consequences of the Mexican-American War.

      • The U.S.-Mexican War (8-O.8)

    • 8.5.5.d Assessing the impacts of the Compromise of 1850.

      • Causes of the Civil War: Missouri Compromise to Bleeding Kansas (8-O.9)

• 5.6 Path to Disunion

  • 8.5.6 Students will evaluate the causes of the Civil War by:

    • 8.5.6.a Evaluating the impact of territorial expansion, the Supreme Court, and individual action on sectional polarization.

      • Causes of the Civil War: Missouri Compromise to Bleeding Kansas (8-O.9)
      • Causes of the Civil War: Dred Scott to secession (8-O.10)

    • 8.5.6.b Assessing the impact of Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party, and the election of 1860 on the secession of the southern states.

      • Causes of the Civil War: Dred Scott to secession (8-O.10)

    • 8.5.6.c Explaining the causes of the Civil War and evaluate the importance of slavery as a central cause of the conflict.

      • Causes of the Civil War: Missouri Compromise to Bleeding Kansas (8-O.9)
      • Causes of the Civil War: Dred Scott to secession (8-O.10)

6 Civil War and Reunion (1860–1896)

• 6.1 The Civil War

  • 8.6.1 Students will analyze factors affecting the outcome of the Civil War by:

    • 8.6.1.a Contrasting the goals, resources, military technology, and strategies of the Union and Confederacy.

      • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (8-P.1)
      • The Civil War: Bull Run to the Emancipation Proclamation (8-P.2)
      • The Civil War: Gettysburg to the election of 1864 (8-P.3)
      • The Civil War: the conclusion of the war (8-P.4)

    • 8.6.1.b Evaluating how Union and Confederate political, military, and diplomatic leadership affected the outcome of the conflict.

      • The Civil War: Bull Run to the Emancipation Proclamation (8-P.2)
      • The Civil War: Gettysburg to the election of 1864 (8-P.3)
      • The Civil War: the conclusion of the war (8-P.4)

• 6.2 The Civil War

  • 8.6.2 Students will evaluate the effectiveness of the United States Government in protecting the rights of individuals and groups during the Civil War by:

    • 8.6.2.a Evaluating the military and historic significance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

      • The Civil War: Bull Run to the Emancipation Proclamation (8-P.2)

    • 8.6.2.b Evaluating the efficacy and constitutionality of President Abraham Lincoln's suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

    • 8.6.2.c Describing economic opportunities and obstacles faced by soldiers, civilians, and free and enslaved populations during the Civil War.

      • The Civil War: the beginning of the war (8-P.1)
      • The Civil War: Bull Run to the Emancipation Proclamation (8-P.2)
      • The Civil War: Gettysburg to the election of 1864 (8-P.3)

• 6.3 Reconstruction and Reunion

  • 8.6.3 Students will analyze the political, economic, and social goals of Reconstruction by:

    • 8.6.3.a Contrasting the goals and policies of the Congressional and Presidential Reconstruction plans.

      • Radical Reconstruction (8-Q.1)

    • 8.6.3.b Identifying the legal and illegal actions used to deny political, social, and economic freedoms to African Americans.

      • The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow (8-Q.2)

    • 8.6.3.c Examining the ways in which African American communities fought to protect and expand their rights.

• 6.4 Reconstruction and Reunion

  • 8.6.4 Students will explain how the United States government protected or failed to protect the rights of individuals and groups by:

    • 8.6.4.a Assessing the factors that influenced the end of Reconstruction.

      • The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow (8-Q.2)

    • 8.6.4.b Evaluating the impact of the Supreme Court, debt peonage, Jim Crow Laws, and disenfranchisement on the enforceability of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

      • The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow (8-Q.2)

7 Growth of Industrial America (1877–1890)

• 7.1 Industrialization

  • 8.7.1 Students will analyze the causes and consequences of industrialization in the late 19th century United States by:

    • 8.7.1.a Evaluating how improved use of resources, new technology and inventions, and transportation networks influenced the growth of industrialization and urbanization.

      • Industrialization in the Gilded Age (8-R.1)
      • Cities in the Gilded Age (8-R.2)

    • 8.7.1.b Describing the impact of business leaders, laissez-faire capitalism, and the use of trusts/monopolies on the American economy.

      • Industrialization in the Gilded Age (8-R.1)

    • 8.7.1.c Evaluating the impact of industrialization and laissez-faire policies on labor.

      • Industrialization in the Gilded Age (8-R.1)

    • 8.7.1.d Identifying responses to post-Civil War immigration.

• 7.2 Westward Movement

  • 8.7.2 Students will analyze the causes and consequences of westward expansion by:

    • 8.7.2.a Describing the impact of geography and technology on the settlement of the west.

    • 8.7.2.b Evaluating the American Indian responses to western migration.

    • 8.7.2.c Evaluating the impact of government actions on patterns of immigration.

    • 8.7.2.d Describing the impact of geographic expansion on rights for African Americans, Chinese immigrants, and the political and legal rights to women.