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Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for the Social Studies • 2018

EIGHTH GRADE
US HISTORY: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR TO 1877
STRANDS: CIVICS, ECONOMICS, CIVIL RIGHTS, GEOGRAPHY, AND HISTORY

STANDARD OBJECTIVE(S) 1st 2nd 3rd 4th

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8.1. Recall major aspects of the 1. Trace explorers’ routes to the New World.
2. Give examples of items involved in the Columbian Exchange.
development of the United States 3. Identify the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade with Spaniards in South/Central America.
from Exploration to 1754. 4. Examine the diversity that emerged with the establishment of colonial America.
5. Describe how the English Bill of Rights, The Mayflower Compact, and the Virginia House of
Burgesses led to the English Colonial idea of self-government.
6. Describe the social structures that formed in the various colonies.
7. Describe the relationships between the various Native American and colonial groups.

(UNIT 1: EXPLORATION & EXPLOITATION)

Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 — Essential Questions —
Ch. 1: The World before the Opening of the Atlantic 1. How did American, African, and European cultures differ from one another before 1500?
Ch. 2: New Empires in the Americas 2. How did Europeans change life in the Americas?
Ch. 3: The English Colonies 3. How did the experiences of the colonists shape America’s political and social ideals?

Vocabulary — ● Why did people first migrate to the Americas?

environment, migration, indigenous, Bering land bridge, ● How and why did Native American cultures differ across North America? What do stories, legends, and art tell about Native
natural resources, explorer, navigation, circumnavigate, American culture?
smallpox, conquistador, empire, mission, Columbian ● Why is the Age of Exploration considered a turning point in history? How did explorers contribute to people’s knowledge of the
Exchange, Northwest Passage, charter, joint-stock world? What were the effects of exploration on Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

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company, colony, cash crop, Middle Passage, chattel
slavery, triangular trade, slave codes
8.2. Evaluate the key people,
factors and events which led to
the American Revolution and
establishment of United States
government.
(UNIT 2: REVOLUTION & INDEPENDENCE)
Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 —
Ch 4: The American Revolution
Vocabulary —
Proclamation of 1763, boycott, repeal, minuteman,
Loyalist, Patriot, petition, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea
Party, colonist, Continental Congress Declaration of
Independence, mercenary, Redcoat, taxation without
representation, blockage, siege, foreign aid, recruit
8.3. Identify and evaluate the
people, places, and documents
that caused the founding of the
nation and relate their significance
to the development of the
American constitutional republic.
(UNIT 3: GOVERNMENT & DEMOCRACY)
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1. Explain colonists’ roles in the French and Indian War.
2. Recognize and trace the major reasons for English taxes after the French and Indian War and
colonial responses from 1763-1774 (Proclamation of 1763, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Acts,
Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, etc.)
3. Identify key figures in the early Revolutionary Era (George Washington, Samuel Adams, Crispus
Attucks, John Adams, John Hancock, Mercy Otis Warren, etc.)
4. Compare and contrast the decisions that the First Continental Congress and Second Continental
Congress made.
5. Examine the immediate events that led to the first shot of the Revolutionary War and the
significance of major battles and places (Bunker Hill/Breeds Hill, Long Island,
Trenton/Princeton, Saratoga, Valley Forge, Monmouth, Cowpens, Yorktown, Morristown, etc.).
6. Recognize key people’s roles during the Revolutionary War (George Washington, Benedict
Arnold, Horatio Gates, Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox, Charles Cornwallis, Abigail Adams, Mercy
Otis Warren, Deborah Sampson, Loyalists, Patriots, etc.).
7. Summarize the terms of the Treaty of Paris, 1783.
Essential Questions —
1. How was it possible for the American Patriots to gain their independence from the powerful British Empire?
● How does conflict create change? How did ideas cause the American Revolution?
● How were the colonists able to defeat the British army? What other ways could the colonists and the British Parliament have
solved their problems?
● What were the immediate and long-term results of the American Revolution? How can we look at the American Revolution
from different points of view?
1. Describe the powers given to the Continental Congress by the Articles of Confederation.
2. Analyze the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation that led to a call for a new constitution.
3. Identify the major compromises at the Constitutional Convention.
4. Describe the framework of the United States Constitution, including powers of the Legislative,
Executive, and Judicial branches.
5. Describe the process of a bill becoming a law.
6. Describe the compromises between Federalists and Anti-Federalists that lead to the Bill of
Rights.
Essential Questions

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Ch 5: Forming a Government
Ch 6: Citizenship and the Constitution
Vocabulary —
constitution, confederation, federalism, Articles of
Confederation, amendment, ratify, Bill of Rights, preamble,
checks and balances, branches of government, executive,
judicial, legislative, House of Representatives, Congress,
Senate, Supreme Court, separation of powers, rights,
responsibilities
8.4. Analyze the challenges and
central ideas involved in creating
the new nation.
(UNIT 4: FEDERALISM & GROWTH)
Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 —
Ch 7: Launching the Nation
Ch 8: The Jefferson Era
Ch 9: A New National Identity
Vocabulary —
cabinet, compromise, impressment, neutrality, alien,
sedition, authority, federal, majority, minority, monarchy,
political power, democracy, republic, nationalism
8.5. Interpret the geographical,
social, and political causes,
challenges, and effects of
westward expansion.
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1. What events and ideas affected the writing of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution?
2. How do the ideas in the Constitution affect the lives of Americans?
● What beliefs about democracy are expressed in the Constitution?
● How does the U.S. Constitution reflect the people and times it came from?
● How and why does the Constitution provide for the rights of citizens?
● How and why does the Constitution separate the powers of government?
● Why is the Constitution called a “living document”?
● What is power and where does power to govern come from?
● How and why are governments created and structured?
● How do different types of government affect the people who live under each system?
● What are the roles and responsibilities of a citizen in the community and in the nation?
1. Evaluate the differences in political opinions of the new federal government that lead to the
formation of political parties.
2. Analyze the importance of George Washington’s Presidency and his Farewell Address on the
American Presidency.
3. Analyze the significance of early Supreme Court cases and explain impacts on the United States
(e.g., Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, Worcester v.
Georgia).
4. Assess the United States’ development and impact of foreign policy (e.g., response to the French
Revolution, Neutrality Proclamation, Alien and Sedition Acts, XYZ Affair, Embargo Act,
impressment, War of 1812, Era of Good Feelings, etc.).
Essential Questions
1. What important events occurred during the terms of the first two U.S. presidents?
2. How did the events of the Jefferson Era strengthen the nation?
3. What forces and events affected national unity and growth?
● Why was the American Revolution an important event in world history?
● Why do governments exist? How are governments maintained and changed? What does a government need to do to survive?
1. Identify the reasons that the United States purchased Louisiana from France.
2. Discuss the significance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
3. Analyze the purpose, challenges, political, racial, religious and economic incentives associated
with the concept of Manifest Destiny.
4. Summarize Andrew Jackson’s roles in the growing United States (Jacksonian Era, “Corrupt
Bargain”, Democratic Party, Bank War, Nullification Crisis, Indian Removal, etc.)
5. Trace Indian Removal including the Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears”.
6. Explain the causes and effects of Texas Independence and Mexican-American War.
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(UNIT 5: EXPANSION & ERADICATION)

Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 — Essential Questions
Ch 10: The Age of Jackson 1. What impact did Andrew Jackson’s presidency have on the nation?
Ch 11: Expanding West 2. How did westward expansion transform the nation?

Vocabulary —
Manifest Destiny, territory, canal, emigrant, annex, forty-
niner, boundary, frontier, Great Plains, Homestead Act,
Louisiana Purchase, pioneer, transcontinental, Oregon Trail
● Why did pioneers move from the East to the western frontier in the nineteenth century? What challenges did pioneers who
settled in western lands face?
● What role did the American government play in the movement westward? How did westward expansion change the American
economy?
● What were causes of conflict between Native American groups and other settlers? How did westward expansion affect Native
Americans, then and now? How did the way of life of Native Americans change over time? How have Native Americans
affected the history of the United States? How are Native American traditions kept alive?

8.6. Interpret the causes, 1. Summarize how the Industrial Revolution began in the United States.
2. Identify key people and their contributions in the Industrial Revolution.
challenges, and effects of the 3. Trace the development of transportation and communication systems during the Industrial
Industrial Revolution. Revolution.
4. Discuss the cultural, religious and social impact in American life that resulted from the Industrial
Revolution.
5. Describe the geography that led to the location of factories (rivers, urban areas, etc.).

(UNIT 6: INDUSTRY & ECONOMY)

Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 — Essential Questions
Ch 12: The North 1. What changes occurred in the North during the early 1800s?
Ch 13: The South 2. How did slavery and agriculture affect the economy and society of the South?

Vocabulary — ● How was the way of life in the South different from life in the North?
agriculture, transportation, communications, technology, ● How did technology affect the Industrial Revolution?
industry, Industrial Revolution, trade union, plantation, ● How did the Industrial Revolution change the American economy?
immigrant, factory, cotton gin, plantation, yeoman

8.7. Evaluate the impact of the 1. Summarize the works of formerly enslaved African Americans who worked to lead others to
freedom.
American social and political 2. Evaluate abolitionists’ roles in bringing the reality of slavery to the nation (e.g., Frederick
reforms on developing American Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.).
society during the first half of the 3. Compare and contrast the philosophies of natural rights expressed in the Declaration of
Independence and the Declaration of Sentiments (e.g., phrases such as “all men are created
nineteenth century. equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”).
4. Examine leaders in the women suffrage movement (e.g., biographies, writings, and speeches of
Dorothea Dix, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony) and their influence on
women’s rights.

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(UNIT 7: REFORM & EQUALITY)
Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 —
Ch 14: New Movements in America
Vocabulary —
reform, abolitionism, suffrage, enfranchisement, Seneca,
inalienable
8.8. Examine the social and
economic conflicts between the
North and South, that would
eventually lead to the American
Civil War.
(UNIT 8: SLAVERY & DIVISION)
Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 —
Ch 15: A Divided Nation
Vocabulary —
Nat Turner, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850,
Fugitive Slave Acts, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas,
Dred Scott Decision, Underground Railroad, Quakers
8.9. Identify and evaluate the key
events and people involved in the
American Civil War.
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Essential Questions
1. What goals did American social reformers have during the early 1800s?
● What impact can citizens have on their government? What does it mean to live in a democracy?
1. Synthesize prior knowledge of the geography of the Northern states and the Industrial
Revolution to explain why slavery did not grow in the North.
2. Trace the origins and development of slavery; its impact on the nation’s political, social, religious,
economic, and cultural development.
3. Analyze the impact of the cotton gin on all social classes and the importance of agriculture in
antebellum Mississippi.
4. Identify major legislation and Supreme Court decisions that strived to both overturn and
preserve slavery resulting in sectional strife (Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive
Slave Acts, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Decision, Underground Railroad,
Quakers’ influence, etc.).
Essential Questions
1. How did the issue of slavery affect politics in the United States?
● Do wars have to be fought? Was the Civil War inevitable?
● What part did slavery play in the Civil War?
1. Analyze the reasons that the North and the South waged war against one another. (e.g., slavery,
states’ rights).
2. Examine key early battles and plans which shaped decisions in the North and South (e.g., First
Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Sherman March, Anaconda Plan, etc).
3. Identify key Northern and Southern political and military leaders.
4. Evaluate the contributions of women, African Americans and other minority groups to the war
effort (Clara Barton, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Native Americans).
5. Trace the events that led to northern victory in the Civil War (e.g., total war, industrial, population,
resources, and technological advantages).
6. Analyze key documents and actions (North and South) during the Civil War (e.g. Emancipation
Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, draft laws, income tax).
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(UNIT 9: WAR & FREEDOM)

Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 — Essential Questions
Ch 16: The Civil War 1. In what ways did the Civil War transform the nation?

Vocabulary — ● What role did African Americans play in bringing about their own emancipation?
compromise, nullify, fugitive, arsenal, secession, Civil War, ● What role did Abraham Lincoln play in the war? What events in the Civil War made the most difference in the outcome?
assassination, border state, casualty, Confederacy, ● What were the costs of the Civil War?
Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address,
sectionalism, states' rights, Union, habeas corpus, draft,
total war

8.10. Analyze the Reconstruction 1. Compare congressional and presidential reconstruction plans.
2. Trace the economic changes in the post- Civil War South (e.g., Lincoln’s Plan, Wade-Davis Bill,
efforts in post-Civil War America. Johnson’s Plan, Radical Reconstruction).
3. Distinguish the roles of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments in expanding
liberty.
4. Examine the Southern resistance to Reconstruction reforms (Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, Ku
Klux Klan, etc.).

(UNIT 10: RECONSTRUCTION & RESISTANCE)

Holt McDougal US History, Beginnings to 1877 — Essential Questions
Ch 17: Reconstruction 1. How did a deeply divided nation move forward after the Civil War?

Vocabulary — ● How did Americans rebuild after the Civil War?

Reconstruction, Wade-Davis Bill, Radical Republicans, ● What effects can a civil war have on a nation? Why is the Civil War so important in American history?
Thirteenth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth ● Who supported change? Who did not support change?
Amendment, black codes, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, de jure, ● Who has benefited from change? Why? Who has not benefited from change? Why?
de facto, Freedmen's Bureau

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