8th Grade United States History
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TEKS

TEKS

Week 24

  • compare the effects of political, economic, and social factors on slaves and free blacks.[7B]
  • analyze the impact of slavery on different sections of the United States.[7C]
  • identify economic differences among different regions of the United States.[12A]
  • explain reasons for the development of the plantation system, the transatlantic slave trade, and the spread of slavery.[12B]
  • explain the reasons for the increase in factories and urbanization.[12C]
  • analyze the causes and effects of economic differences among different regions of the United States at selected times in U.S. history.[12D]
  • identify selected racial, ethnic, and religious groups that settled in the United States and explain their reasons for immigration.[23A]
  • explain the relationship between urbanization and conflicts resulting from differences in religion, social class, and political beliefs.[23B]
  • identify ways conflicts between people from various racial, ethnic, and religious groups were resolved.[23C]
  • analyze the contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups to our national identity.[23D]
  • identify the political, social, and economic contributions of women to American society.[23E]
  • evaluate the impact of reform movements, including educational reform, temperance, the women's rights movement, prison reform, abolition, the labor reform movement, and care of the disabled.[24B]
  • describe developments in art, music, and literature that are unique to American culture such as the Hudson River School artists, John James Audubon, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," transcendentalism, and other cultural activities in the history of the United States.[26A]
  • explain the effects of technological and scientific innovations such as the steamboat, the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts.[27A]
  • analyze the impact of transportation and communication systems on the growth, development, and urbanization of the United States.[27B]
  • analyze how technological innovations changed the way goods were manufactured and marketed, nationally and internationally.[27C]
  • explain how technological innovations brought about economic growth such as how the factory system contributed to rapid industrialization and the Transcontinental Railroad led to the opening of the west.[27D]
  • identify examples of how industrialization changed life in the United States.[28B]

Week 25

  • identify the major eras and events in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, drafting of the Declaration of Independence, creation and ratification of the Constitution, religious revivals such as the Second Great Awakening, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects.[1A]
  • analyze the issues of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, including the Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise.[4D]
  • identify the provisions and compare the effects of congressional conflicts and compromises prior to the Civil War, including the roles of John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster.[7D]
  • describe the contributions of significant political, social, and military leaders of the United States such as Frederick Douglass, John Paul Jones, James Monroe, Stonewall Jackson, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[22B]
  • explain the relationship between urbanization and conflicts resulting from differences in religion, social class, and political beliefs.[23B]
  • analyze the contributions of people of various racial, ethnic, and religious groups to our national identity.[23D]
  • identify the political, social, and economic contributions of women to American society.[23E]
  • describe the historical development of the abolitionist movement.[24A]
  • evaluate the impact of reform movements, including educational reform, temperance, the women's rights movement, prison reform, abolition, the labor reform movement, and care of the disabled.[24B]
  • describe religious motivation for immigration and influence on social movements, including the impact of the first and second Great Awakenings.[25B]
  • describe developments in art, music, and literature that are unique to American culture such as the Hudson River School artists, John James Audubon, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," transcendentalism, and other cultural activities in the history of the United States.[26A]
  • analyze the relationship between fine arts and continuity and change in the American way of life.[26C]

Weeks 26

  • identify the major eras and events in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, drafting of the Declaration of Independence, creation and ratification of the Constitution, religious revivals such as the Second Great Awakening, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects.[1A]
  • explain the origin and development of American political parties.[5C]
  • explain the causes and effects of the U.S.-Mexican War and their impact on the United States.[6D]
  • analyze the impact of slavery on different sections of the United States.[7C]
  • identify the provisions and compare the effects of congressional conflicts and compromises prior to the Civil War, including the roles of John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster.[7D]
  • explain the causes of the Civil War, including sectionalism, states' rights, and slavery, and significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter; the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg; the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation; Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[8B]
  • evaluate the impact of selected landmark Supreme Court decisions, including Dred Scott v. Sandford, on life in the United States.[18C]
  • analyze reasons for and the impact of selected examples of civil disobedience in U.S. history such as the Boston Tea Party and Henry David Thoreau's refusal to pay a tax.[20C]
  • identify different points of view of political parties and interest groups on important historical and contemporary issues.[21A]
  • summarize a historical event in which compromise resulted in a peaceful resolution.[21C]
  • describe the historical development of the abolitionist movement.[24A]

Week 27

  • identify the major eras and events in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, drafting of the Declaration of Independence, creation and ratification of the Constitution, religious revivals such as the Second Great Awakening, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects.[1A]
  • explain the significance of the following dates: 1607, founding of Jamestown; 1620, arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of the Mayflower Compact; 1776, adoption of the Declaration of Independence; 1787, writing of the U.S. Constitution; 1803, Louisiana Purchase; and 1861-1865, Civil War.[1C]
  • analyze the impact of slavery on different sections of the United States.[7C]
  • explain the roles played by significant individuals during the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, and heroes such as congressional Medal of Honor recipients William Carney and Philip Bazaar.[8A]
  • explain the causes of the Civil War, including sectionalism, states' rights, and slavery, and significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter; the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg; the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation; Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[8B]
  • analyze Abraham Lincoln's ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his first and second inaugural addresses and the Gettysburg Address and contrast them with the ideas contained in Jefferson Davis's inaugural address.[8C]
  • locate places and regions of importance in the United States during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.[10A]
  • analyze the effects of physical and human geographic factors on major historical and contemporary events in the United States.[10C]
  • explain constitutional issues arising over the issue of states' rights, including the Nullification Crisis and the Civil War.[17B]
  • analyze the leadership qualities of elected and appointed leaders of the United States such as George Washington, John Marshall, and Abraham Lincoln.[22A]
  • describe the contributions of significant political, social, and military leaders of the United States such as Frederick Douglass, John Paul Jones, James Monroe, Stonewall Jackson, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[22B]
  • describe the historical development of the abolitionist movement.[24A]
  • explain the effects of technological and scientific innovations such as the steamboat, the cotton gin, and interchangeable parts.[27A]

Week 28

  • identify the major eras and events in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, drafting of the Declaration of Independence, creation and ratification of the Constitution, religious revivals such as the Second Great Awakening, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects.[1A]
  • explain the origin and development of American political parties.[5C]
  • explain the roles played by significant individuals during the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, and heroes such as congressional Medal of Honor recipients William Carney and Philip Bazaar.[8A]
  • explain the causes of the Civil War, including sectionalism, states' rights, and slavery, and significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter; the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg; the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation; Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[8B]
  • analyze Abraham Lincoln's ideas about liberty, equality, union, and government as contained in his first and second inaugural addresses and the Gettysburg Address and contrast them with the ideas contained in Jefferson Davis's inaugural address.[8C]
  • identify the effects of legislative acts such as the Homestead Act, the Dawes Act, and the Morrill Act.[9D]
  • identify economic differences among different regions of the United States.[12A]
  • analyze the causes and effects of economic differences among different regions of the United States at selected times in U.S. history.[12D]
  • identify different points of view of political parties and interest groups on important historical and contemporary issues.[21A]
  • analyze the leadership qualities of elected and appointed leaders of the United States such as George Washington, John Marshall, and Abraham Lincoln.[22A]
  • describe the contributions of significant political, social, and military leaders of the United States such as Frederick Douglass, John Paul Jones, James Monroe, Stonewall Jackson, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[22B]
  • identify the political, social, and economic contributions of women to American society.[23E]

Week 29

  • identify the major eras and events in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, drafting of the Declaration of Independence, creation and ratification of the Constitution, religious revivals such as the Second Great Awakening, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects.[1A]
  • explain the roles played by significant individuals during the Civil War, including Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, and heroes such as congressional Medal of Honor recipients William Carney and Philip Bazaar.[8A]
  • explain the causes of the Civil War, including sectionalism, states' rights, and slavery, and significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter; the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg; the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation; Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[8B]
  • describe the impact of 19th-century amendments, including the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, on life in the United States.[16B]
  • analyze the leadership qualities of elected and appointed leaders of the United States such as George Washington, John Marshall, and Abraham Lincoln.[22A]
  • describe developments in art, music, and literature that are unique to American culture such as the Hudson River School artists, John James Audubon, "Battle Hymn of the Republic," transcendentalism, and other cultural activities in the history of the United States.[26A]
  • identify examples of American art, music, and literature that reflect society in different eras.[26B]

Week 30

  • identify the major eras and events in U.S. history through 1877, including colonization, revolution, drafting of the Declaration of Independence, creation and ratification of the Constitution, religious revivals such as the Second Great Awakening, early republic, the Age of Jackson, westward expansion, reform movements, sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction, and describe their causes and effects.[1A]
  • explain the causes of the Civil War, including sectionalism, states' rights, and slavery, and significant events of the Civil War, including the firing on Fort Sumter; the battles of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg; the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation; Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[8B]
  • evaluate legislative reform programs of the Radical Reconstruction Congress and reconstructed state governments.[9A]
  • explain the economic, political, and social problems during Reconstruction and evaluate their impact on different groups.[9C]
  • describe the impact of 19th-century amendments, including the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, on life in the United States.[16B]
  • identify different points of view of political parties and interest groups on important historical and contemporary issues.[21A]
  • describe the contributions of significant political, social, and military leaders of the United States such as Frederick Douglass, John Paul Jones, James Monroe, Stonewall Jackson, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.[22B]
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  • Resources
    • Mapping Project
    • Our Beliefs
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  • Unit 1
    • Exploring Social Studies
    • Exploring the Americas
    • Jamestown
    • Colonial America
    • French & Indian War
    • Review With Technology
  • Unit 2
    • The Spirit of Independence >
      • Revolution to Resolution
    • The American Revolution >
      • Valley Forge DBQ Package
    • Review With Technology
    • Teacher Resources
  • Unit 3
    • Articles of Confederation
    • Constitutional Convention
    • Principles of the Constitution
    • Structure of the US Constitution
    • George Washington & the New Republic
    • Review With Technology
    • Teacher Resources
  • Unit 4
    • Development of Political Parties
    • The Jefferson Era
    • Growth and Expansion
    • The Jackson Era
    • Manifest Destiny
    • North and South
    • Review With Technology
  • Unit 5
    • North and South Differences
    • The Spirit of Reform
    • Toward Civil War
    • The Civil War
    • Reconstruction
    • Review With Technology
  • Unit 6
    • STAAR Review >
      • Crash Course Nearpods
      • CFU Quizzes
    • Geography