Standards
America: 1877-2008
Generate resourceBuilding upon skills learned in previous grades, the student learns the skills to complete the following tasks, completing each task with relative ease by the end of 8th grade
Generate resourceThe student can find a location on a map using latitude and longitude, and determine the latitude and longitude of an absolute location on a map, along with its applications. G
Generate resourceThe student can form an argument surrounding the indications of a historical photograph, political cartoon, chart, or graph and cite evidence from the image to support the argument. HC
Generate resourceThe student can write a persuasive essay of 4-5 paragraphs based on class notes, including a main argument (thesis), topic sentences, supporting evidence from history and class, and clear attempts to explain how the evidence proves the topic sentences and overall thesis. HCE
Generate resourceThe student explains the economic principles and practices that corresponded with America’s industrial and economic growth after the Civil War, including: E
Generate resourceThe student explains the reasons for and origins of those who immigrated to America after the Civil War and the extent to which they assimilated, including opposition to new immigration such as the Chinese Exclusion Act. H
Generate resourceThe student describes the challenges that accompanied industrialization and immigration. HE
Generate resourceThe student describes the various responses to poor working conditions and standards of living, including: charity, the social gospel, populism, unionization, violence, and socialism and communism. H
Generate resourceThe student describes the style of and identifies pieces from the Hudson River School art movement. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the role of the railroad, the Black Hills gold rush, federal land policy such as the Homestead Act, and open-range cattle ranching on South Dakota history. H
Generate resourceThe student describes the life of pioneers and immigrants in South Dakota during the late 1800s, including their cultural heritage. H
Generate resourceThe student explains instances of conflict, cooperation, and duplicity among Native Americans (including select standards from Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings 2 and 6), settlers, and governing bodies in the Dakota Territory during the late 19th Century, including: H
Generate resourceThe student explains the extent to which treaties made between the U.S. government and Native Americans were followed and broken, including the historical and contemporary effects of the Agreement of 1877. H
Generate resourceThe student tells of the effects of boarding schools on Native Americans, including the U.S. government’s enactment of compulsory attendance of Native American children and its enforcement on reservations in South Dakota. H
Generate resourceThe student identifies the targets of the Ku Klux Klan and lynching, and explains the ways in which different governments did or did not attempt to protect them. H
Generate resourceThe student tells the story of how South Dakota became a state, explains the basic structure and functioning of its government, and explains the symbols of the Great Seal of the State of South Dakota. HC
Generate resourceThe student tells of the school’s local political community or a larger neighboring political community, including its founding, history, and the structure and functioning of its current government, e.g., mayor, council, tribal council, school board, etc. C
Generate resourceThe student explains the meaning and historical significance of the following terms and topics: Robber Barons, Captains of Industry, Dawes Act, Ku Klux Klan Acts, and the Free Silver Movement. H
Generate resourceThe student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of American history at the turn of the 20th Century.
Generate resourceThe student identifies the laws in different states that inhibited African Americans from voting, including the Supreme Court’s federal ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson. HC
Generate resourceThe student reads and discusses the meaning of selections from Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Exposition Address. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the arguments and efforts of the suffragist movement and its major figures culminating in the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, including Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Ida B. Wells, and the early successes and failures of the suffragist movement in South Dakota, including the efforts of Mamie Shields Pyle. HC
Generate resourceThe student tells of the major events in William McKinley’s presidency, including: H
Generate resourceThe student reads and discusses the meaning of selections from Woodrow Wilson’s “What Is Progress?” HC
Generate resourceThe student explains the ways in which certain Progressive ideas were different from the ideas of the American founding. HC
Generate resourceThe student names and explains the various progressive policies that were implemented in law, including: HCE
Generate resourceThe student explains the ideas and efforts for the betterment of African Americans around 1900, including: H
Generate resourceThe student reads and discusses the meaning of Niagara’s Declaration of Principles in its entirety. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the lifestyle and contributions of Native Americans at the turn of the century, including the role of boarding schools, allotment policy, the life and work of Charles Eastman, Standing Bear v. Crook, and the Major Crimes Act of 1885. H
Generate resourceThe student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of World War I and the Roaring Twenties.
Generate resourceThe student explains why America declared war on the Central Powers in World War I. H
Generate resourceThe student tells the stories and explains the effects of major military events, figures, and common soldiers from World War I. H
Generate resourceThe student explains why the Allied Powers won World War I and the American role in the victory. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the development of organized crime during Prohibition. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the practice of lynching and other forms of violence targeting African Americans, including the Tulsa Massacre. H
Generate resourceThe student describes and identifies the Art Deco style of art and architecture. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the tenets and effects of the Snyder Act of 1924 (Indian Citizenship Act) granting citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States. HC
Generate resourceThe student explains the origins and main ideas of the Harlem Renaissance as well as the Jazz style of music, including Jazz’s origins and major musicians. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the meaning and historical significance of the following terms and topics: Black Wall Street, unrestricted submarine warfare, the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram, Spanish Flu, the Great Migration and the 19th Amendment. HC
Generate resourceThe student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the Great Depression and World War II.
Generate resourceThe student explains the roles of margin buying, the Federal Reserve, fractional reserve banking, and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff on the stock market crash and the Great Depression. HCE
Generate resourceThe student explains the major ideas and effects of the New Deal, including: HCE
Generate resourceThe student explains the role of immigration and foreign workers in the 20th century, including during World War II, and the reform efforts of Cesar Chavez. H
Generate resourceThe student describes the carving of Mount Rushmore in the 1930s and 1940s by Gutzon Borglum and the carving of the Crazy Horse Memorial. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the causes of World War II and names the major powers in each alliance. H
Generate resourceThe student explains how America aided the British prior to Pearl Harbor and why Japan attacked the United States. H
Generate resourceThe student tells the stories and explains the effects of major military events, figures, common soldiers, and noncombatants on the home front during World War II. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the similarities and differences between militarism in Imperial Japan, communism in the Soviet Union, and fascism in Nazi Germany, including their use of violence and mass murder as demonstrated by: H
Generate resourceThe student explains why the Allied Powers won World War II and the American role in the victory, including the battles of Pearl Harbor, Midway, Guadalcanal, Normandy, the Bulge, and Okinawa, as well as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the meaning and historical significance of the following terms and topics: Dust Bowl, gulag archipelago, Japanese American internment, Tuskegee Airmen, Navajo Code Talkers, Lakota Code Talkers, genocide, and the Manhattan Project. H
Generate resourceThe student demonstrates knowledge of post-war America and the Civil Rights Movement.
Generate resourceThe student explains the ideas and tactics used by the Soviet Union and the United States in the early decades of the Cold War, including the growth of intelligence agencies. H
Generate resourceThe student tells the biographies of Benjamin Reifel and Vine Deloria, Jr., including their different interpretations of American Indian life. H
Generate resourceThe student explains efforts to secure civil rights for African Americans, including the efforts of: HC
Generate resourceThe student reads and discusses the meaning of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech in its entirety. HC
Generate resourceThe student explains the connections Martin Luther King, Jr. makes to the principles of the American founding in his “I Have a Dream” speech. HC
Generate resourceThe student tells of the major events in John F. Kennedy’s presidency, including: H
Generate resourceThe student explains the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. HC
Generate resourceThe student identifies actions taken on behalf of African Americans after the Civil Rights Act, including the Selma to Montgomery March, Black Panthers, affirmative action, and civil unrest. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the meaning and historical significance of the following terms and topics: Berlin Airlift, Truman Doctrine, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and Brown v. Board of Education. HC
Generate resourceThe student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of America surrounding the Vietnam War and the cultural revolution.
Generate resourceThe student compares and contrasts the main ideas and programs of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. HC
Generate resourceThe student explains why America fought the Vietnam War, particularly within the context of the Cold War. H
Generate resourceThe student tells the stories and explains the effects of major military events, figures, and common soldiers from the Vietnam War, including why it was difficult, both militarily and domestically, for the United States to achieve complete victory in Vietnam, and withdrew instead. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the ways in which America exhibited new signs of prosperity in the late 20th century, including: H
Generate resourceThe student explains the reasons—both philosophical and circumstantial—college students in the 1960s and 1970s challenged various forms of authority, including: H
Generate resourcetraditional ideas and institutions related to religion, morality, and family life
Generate resourceThe student explains how America changed during the late 20th century, including: H
Generate resourceThe student explains Richard Nixon’s “silent majority,” the Watergate Scandal, and his resignation. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the totalitarian violence of communism in China, especially under Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward, and Richard Nixon’s efforts to open trade with China. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the meaning and historical significance of the following terms and topics: desegregation, containment, mutually assured destruction, Domino Theory, War Powers Act, television, baby boomers and hippies, environmentalism, Moon Landing, Second Wounded Knee, and détente. H
Generate resourceThe student demonstrates knowledge and understanding of America at the turn of the 21st Century.
Generate resourceThe student explains the relationship between Native American tribes and the federal government before and after the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. H
Generate resourceThe student tells the histories and present-day existence of Native Americans in South Dakota: Oceti Sakowin Oyate (including select standards from Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings 1-7), Mandan, Sahnish (Arikara), Cheyenne, Crow, and Hidatsa, among others. HC
Generate resourceThe student explains the problems of stagflation, the OPEC oil embargo, and the Iranian revolution and hostage crisis during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. H
Generate resourceThe student tells of the major events in Ronald Reagan’s presidency, including: H
Generate resourcehis efforts against communism and the Soviet Union the creation of a new conservative coalition
Generate resourceThe student explains the contribution of American foreign policy to the failure of communism and the end of the Cold War, including American foreign policy pressure and the assertion of American principles such as natural rights, equality, and liberty. H
Generate resourceAmerican and NATO military involvement in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans
Generate resourceThe student tells the story of the September 11 attacks and the response by the Bush Administration, including the subsequent military operation in Afghanistan, and the expansion of intelligence agencies and tactics. H
Generate resourceThe student tells the stories and explains the effects of major military events, figures, and common soldiers from the War on Terror and the Iraq War, including why it was difficult, both militarily and domestically, for the United States to achieve complete victory in the War on Terror in Afghanistan and in the Iraq War. H
Generate resourceThe student explains the meaning and historical significance of the following terms and topics: supply-side economics, Americans with Disabilities Act, the Internet, and Hurricane Katrina, America’s most expensive natural disaster to date. H
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