Louisiana 8th Grade Social Studies Standards

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The United States and Louisiana: Industrial Age Through Modern Era

• 8.1 Explain ideas, events, and developments in the history of the United States of America from 1877 to 2008 and how they progressed, changed, or remained the same over time.
• 8.2 Analyze connections between events and developments in U.S. history within their global context from 1877 to 2008.
• 8.3 Compare and contrast events and developments in U.S. history from 1877 to 2008.
• 8.4 Use geographic representations and historical data to analyze events and developments in U.S. history from 1877 to 2008, including environmental, cultural, economic, and political characteristics and changes.
• 8.5 Use maps to identify absolute location (latitude, and longitude) and describe geographic characteristics of places in Louisiana, North America, and the world.
• 8.6 Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to:
  • 8.6.a Analyze social studies content.
  • 8.6.b Evaluate claims, counterclaims, and evidence.
  • 8.6.c Compare and contrast multiple sources and accounts.
  • 8.6.d Explain how the availability of sources affects historical interpretations.
• 8.7 Construct and express claims that are supported with relevant evidence from primary and/or secondary sources, social studies content knowledge, and clear reasoning and explanations to:
  • 8.7.a Demonstrate an understanding of social studies content.
  • 8.7.b Compare and contrast content and viewpoints.
  • 8.7.c Analyze causes and effects.
  • 8.7.d Evaluate counterclaims.
• 8.8 Analyze the causes and effects of technological and industrial advances during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century.
  • 8.8.a Analyze factors that contributed to and effects of the growth of the industrial economy, including capitalism and the growth of free markets, mass production, agricultural advancements, the government’s laissez-faire economic policy, and the rise of corporations.
  • 8.8.b Explain the social and economic effects of innovations in technology, transportation, and communication during the late 1800s and early 1900s, including the expansion of railroads, electricity, and telephone.
  • 8.8.c Explain how industrialists and corporations revolutionized business and influenced the U.S. economy and society, with an emphasis on business practices (vertical and horizontal integration, formation of monopolies/trusts), development of major industries (oil, steel, railroad, banking), and the role of entrepreneurs, including Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Madam C.J. Walker.
• 8.9 Analyze the social, political, and economic changes that developed in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
  • 8.9.a Explain how industrialization influenced the movement of people from rural to urban areas and the effects of urbanization.
  • 8.9.b Explain the causes and effects of immigration to the United States during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and compare and contrast experiences of immigrants.
  • 8.9.c Describe the working conditions and struggles experienced by the labor force that led to the labor movement (child labor, hours, safety, wages, standard of living), and evaluate the effectiveness of efforts to improve conditions.
  • 8.9.d Describe the reasons for and effects of the rise of Populism in the United States and Louisiana during the late 1800s, including the role of the Grange, Farmers’ Alliance, and People’s Party.
  • 8.9.e Analyze the causes and outcomes of the Progressive movement and the role of muckrakers, including the Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Seventeenth Amendment, Thomas Nast, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis.
  • 8.9.f Analyze the government’s response to the rise of trusts and monopolies, including the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.
  • 8.9.g Describe important ideas and events of presidential administrations during the late 1800s and early 1900s, with emphasis on Theodore Roosevelt’s administration and his support for trust busting, regulation, consumer protection laws, and conservation.
  • 8.9.h Explain the origins and development of Louisiana public colleges and universities, including land grant institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and regional universities.
  • 8.9.i Analyze the events leading to Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and the consequences of the decision, including changes to the Louisiana Constitution.
  • 8.9.j Explain the emergence of the Jim Crow system and how it affected Black Americans.
  • 8.9.k Explain the goals and strategies used by civil rights leaders of the late 1800s and early 1900s, and analyze differing viewpoints of key figures and groups, including W.E.B. DuBois and the Niagara Movement, Booker T. Washington, NAACP, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida B. Wells.
• 8.10 Analyze ideas and events related to the expansion of the United States during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
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• 8.11 Analyze the causes, course and consequences of World War I.
  • 8.11.a Describe the causes of World War I, including militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
  • 8.11.b Explain the reasons for the initial U.S. policy of neutrality and isolationism.
  • 8.11.c Analyze the events leading to U.S. involvement in World War I, including German submarine warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman Telegram.
  • 8.11.d Analyze how the United States mobilized for war and ways the American people contributed to the war effort on the home front and abroad, with an emphasis on military service, role of women and minority groups, liberty bonds, and victory gardens.
  • 8.11.e Explain how the U.S. government directed public support and responded to dissent during World War I, including through the use of wartime propaganda, Committee on Public Information, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, and Schenck v. United States (1919).
  • 8.11.f Explain how military strategies and advances in technology affected warfare and the course of World War I, including trench warfare, airplanes, machine guns, poison gas, submarines, and tanks.
  • 8.11.g Describe the goals of leaders at the Paris Peace Conference, comparing Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, and the Treaty of Versailles.
  • 8.11.h Explain the reaction of the U.S. Senate to the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations, and describe the return to isolationism after the war.
• 8.12 Analyze the political, social, cultural and economic effects of events and developments during the early twentieth century.
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• 8.13 Analyze the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
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• 8.14 Describe the causes, course, and consequences of World War II.
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• 8.15 Analyze causes, major events, and key leaders of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968.
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• 8.16 Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Cold War.
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• 8.17 Describe the importance of key ideas, events, and developments of the modern era.
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