| GLE 1 |
Analyze various types of maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams related to U.S. history
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| GLE 2 |
Explain how physical features and climate affected migration, settlement patterns, and land use in the United States through 1877 |
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| GLE 3 |
Identify and describe significant physical features that have influenced U.S. historical events (e.g., Ohio River Valley in the American Revolution) |
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| GLE 4 |
Explain ways in which goals, cultures, interests, inventions, and technological advances have affected perceptions and uses of places or regions in the United States |
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| GLE 5 |
Explain patterns of rural/urban migration and the positive and negative consequences of urban development in the United States |
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| GLE 6 |
Identify selected racial, ethnic, and religious groups that settled in the United States and explain the political, cultural, and economic reasons for immigration |
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| GLE 7 |
Compare the interdependence of Great Britain and the American colonies to the global economy today |
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| GLE 8 |
Explain how cooperation and conflict affected the changing political boundaries of the United States to 1877 (e.g., Missouri Compromise) |
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| GLE 9 |
Explain how the different physical environments in the American North and South led to different economic activities |
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| GLE 10 |
| Explain and evaluate the major purposes of government |
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| GLE 11 |
Explain the meaning of the term federalism |
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| GLE 12 |
Distinguish between various forms of government (e.g., monarchy, totalitarian) and describe their characteristics and organization |
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| GLE 13 |
Explain how separation of powers limits government and describe the U.S. government system of checks and balances |
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| GLE 14 |
Identify the powers of the U.S. federal government and the powers it shares with state governments according to the U.S. Constitution |
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| GLE 15 |
Identify the structure and powers of the three branches of the federal government, the limits of those powers, and key positions within each branch |
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| GLE 16 |
Identify qualifications and terms of office for elected officials at the national level |
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| GLE 17 |
Identify current government leaders at the national level |
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| GLE 18 |
Describe the powers/responsibilities and limits of power for government officials at the national level |
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| GLE 19 |
Explain how a bill becomes law at the federal level |
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| GLE 20 |
Examine a given law or court ruling and evaluate it based on given criteria (e.g., Dred Scott decision) |
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| GLE 21 |
Evaluate a type of tax in an historical context (e.g., Stamp Act, Tea Tax)
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| GLE 22 |
Identify problems the United States faced after the American Revolution that led to the writing of the U.S. Constitution
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| GLE 23 |
Compare and contrast the Articles of Confederation with the U.S. Constitution |
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| GLE 24 |
Identify the roles of the Continental Congress and the Great Compromise in forming the American constitutional government and the federal union |
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| GLE 25 |
Identify the arguments of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists
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| GLE 26 |
Explain how historical English documents, such as the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, influenced American democracy |
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| GLE 27 |
Explain how ancient governments influenced American democracy and culture |
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| GLE 28 |
Describe historical experiences and factors that defined, influenced, and helped shape American political culture
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| GLE 29 |
Define and explain the ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence |
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| GLE 30 |
Explain the principles of government embodied in the U.S. Constitution |
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| GLE 31 |
Analyze methods used to institute change or resolve social conflict in U.S. history (e.g., War of 1812, states' rights theory) |
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| GLE 32 |
Explain how changes are made in a democratic society |
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| GLE 33 |
Describe the role of political parties in the American political system |
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| GLE 34 |
| Describe political divisions of the world (nation-states) |
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| GLE 35 |
Explain various processes/strategies nations use to interact |
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| GLE 36 |
Explain how U.S. foreign policy is formed and carried out |
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| GLE 37 |
Identify types of foreign policy issues with reference to current and historical examples (e.g., Middle East conflicts) |
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| GLE 38 |
| Identify the qualifications or requirements for U.S. citizenship, including naturalization |
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| GLE 39 |
Explain the importance of various rights and responsibilities of citizenship to the individual or to society at large (e.g., Bill of Rights) |
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| GLE 40 |
Explain issues involving rights and responsibilities of individuals in American society (e.g., rights of individuals with disabilities, responsibility to pay taxes)
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| GLE 41 |
Use economic concepts (e.g., supply and demand, interdependence) to explain Mercantilism and describe its role in British colonization and the conflict between the thirteen American colonies and Great Britain |
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| GLE 42 |
Identify U.S. exports and imports that contributed to the U.S economic interdependence with Europe and other parts of the world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries |
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| GLE 43 |
| Construct a timeline of key events and key figures in U.S. history from 1763 to 1877 |
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| GLE 44 |
| Interpret a timeline to identify cause-and-effect relationships among events in U.S. history |
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| GLE 45 |
| Explain the point of view of key historical figures and groups in U.S. history |
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| GLE 46 |
Explain the causes, effects, or impact of a given historical event in U.S. history |
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| GLE 47 |
| Explain how a given historical figure influenced or changed the course of U.S. history |
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| GLE 48 |
Compare and contrast two primary sources related to the same event in U.S. history |
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| GLE 49 |
Propose and defend an alternative course of action to a given issue or problem in U.S. history |
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| GLE 50 |
Conduct historical research using a variety of resources, and evaluate those resources for reliability and bias, to answer historical questions related to U.S. history |
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| GLE 51 |
Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolutionary War |
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| GLE 52 |
Compare and contrast the strategies and motivations of the Patriots, Loyalists, and British during the American Revolution |
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| GLE 53 |
Explain the role of key figures in the American Revolution |
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| GLE 54 |
Explain how the American Revolution affected the politics, society, and economy of the new nation |
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| GLE 55 |
| Describe the issues involved in the creation and ratification of the U.S. Constitution |
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| GLE 56 |
| Explain the significance of the Bill of Rights and its specific guarantees |
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| GLE 57 |
Describe major events and issues involving early presidencies |
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| GLE 58 |
Explain Napoleon's reasons for selling the Louisiana territory to the United States and the impact of that acquisition |
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| GLE 59 |
Explain President Madison's reason for declaring war in 1812, the sectional divisions over the war, and the consequences of the Native American alliance with the British |
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| GLE 60 |
| Describe provisions of the Monroe Doctrine and its influence on U.S. foreign relations |
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| GLE 61 |
Explain westward movement of the United States, the changes it created, and its effects on relations with Native Americans |
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| GLE 62 |
| Explain Manifest Destiny and its economic, political, social, and religious roots |
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| GLE 63 |
Describe diplomatic and political developments that led to the resolution of conflicts with Britain, Spain, and Russia from 1815 to 1850 |
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| GLE 64 |
Identify the causes, course, and consequences of the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War |
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| GLE 65 |
Describe Jacksonian Democracy, the influence of Jackson on the U.S. political system, and Jackson's Indian Removal Policy |
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| GLE 66 |
Identify major technological developments related to land, water, and transportation and explain how they transformed the economy, created international markets, and affected the environment |
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| GLE 67 |
Analyze national policies on a protective tariff, a national bank, federally funded improvements (e.g., roads, canals, railroads), and educational and prison reforms |
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| GLE 68 |
| Compare ways of life in northern and southern states and identify factors that caused rapid urbanization and the growth of slavery |
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| GLE 69 |
| Identify the causes and explain the effects of new waves of immigration prior to the Civil War |
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| GLE 70 |
Explain the importance of the Second Great Awakening, the ideas of its principal leaders, and how it affected public education, temperance, women's suffrage, and abolition |
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| GLE 71 |
Describe fundamental beliefs of abolitionists and compare positions of those who favored gradual versus immediate emancipation |
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| GLE 72 |
Identify the major antebellum reform movements, their leaders, and the movements' effects on the United States |
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| GLE 73 |
Describe the economic, social, and cultural differences between the North and South, including the advantages and disadvantages each had at the outbreak of the Civil War |
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| GLE 74 |
Explain the impact of the compromises on the issue of slavery and the Dred Scott decision on increasing tensions between the North and South |
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| GLE 75 |
Explain the immediate and long-term causes of the secession of the Southern states and the outbreak of the Civil War |
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| GLE 76 |
Describe the course of the Civil War, including major turning points and the war's immediate and long-term impact on the North and the South |
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| GLE 77 |
Explain the purpose, significance, and results of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation |
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| GLE 78 |
Describe provisions of the Thirteenth Amendment and Lincoln's reasons for advancing it, as well as the purpose and significance of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments |
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| GLE 79 |
| Describe, compare, and evaluate various reconstruction plans of the post-Civil War South |
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| GLE 80 |
Explain the growing conflict between Andrew Johnson and Congress, and the reasons for and consequences of his impeachment and trial |
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| GLE 81 |
| Describe the successes and failures of Reconstruction, as well as its impact on the South |
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| GLE 82 |
Explain how the presidential election of 1876 led to the Compromise of 1877 and brought about an end to Reconstruction in the South |
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