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]
evaluate legislative reform programs of the Radical Reconstruction Congress and reconstructed state governments.[9A]
evaluate the impact of the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels.[9B]
explain the economic, political, and social problems during Reconstruction and evaluate their impact on different groups.[9C]
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]
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]
identify ways conflicts between people from various racial, ethnic, and religious groups were resolved.[23C]
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]