Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 5
United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution | 13 ) Describe social and economic influences on United States' expansion prior to World War I.
• Explaining how the development of transcontinental railroads helped the United States achieve its Manifest Destiny
• Locating on a map states, capitals, and important geographic features west of the Mississippi River
• Explaining how the United States acquired Alaska and Hawaii
• Identifying major groups and individuals involved with the Westward Expansion, including farmers, ranchers, Jewish merchants, Mormons, and Hispanics
• Analyzing the impact of closing the frontier on American Indians' way of life
• Explaining how the Spanish-American War led to the emergence of the United States as a world power
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Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 10
United States History I: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution | 16 ) Explain the transition of the United States from an agrarian society to an industrial nation prior to World War I. [A.1.a., A.1.b., A.1.c., A.1.d., A.1.e., A.1.h., A.1.i., A.1.k.]
• Describing the impact of Manifest Destiny on the economic and technological development of the post-Civil War West, including mining, the cattle industry, and the transcontinental railroad
• Identifying the changing role of the American farmer, including the establishment of the Granger movement and the Populist Party and agrarian rebellion over currency issues
• Evaluating the Dawes Act for its effect on tribal identity, land ownership, and assimilation of American Indians between Reconstruction and World War I
• Comparing population percentages, motives, and settlement patterns of immigrants from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America, including the Chinese Exclusion Act regarding immigration quotas
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