Standards - Social Studies

Evaluating the extension of citizenship rights to African Americans included in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

Analyzing the impact of Reconstruction for its effect on education and social institutions in the United States

Explaining the black codes and the Jim Crow laws

Describing post-Civil War land distribution, including tenant farming and sharecropping

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

Explain the impact of industrialization, urbanization, communication, and cultural changes on life in the United States from the late nineteenth century to World War I.

Describe reform movements and changing social conditions during the Progressive Era in the United States.

Relating countries of origin and experiences of new immigrants to life in the United States

Identifying workplace reforms, including the eight-hour workday, child labor laws, and workers’ compensation laws

Identifying political reforms of Progressive movement leaders, including Theodore Roosevelt and the establishment of the national park system

Identifying social reforms of the Progressive movement, including efforts by Jane Adams, Clara Barton, and Julia Tutwiler (Alabama)

Recognizing goals of the early civil rights movement and the purpose of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Explaining Progressive movement provisions of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-first Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

Identify causes and consequences of World War I and reasons for the United States’ entry into the war.

Describing military and civilian roles in the United States during World War I

Explaining roles of important persons associated with World War I, including Woodrow Wilson and Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Analyzing technological advances of the World War I era for their impact on modern warfare

Locating on a map major countries involved in World War I and boundary changes after the war

Explaining the intensification of isolationism in the United States after World War I

Recognizing the strategic placement of military bases in Alabama (Alabama)

Identify cultural and economic developments in the United States from 1900 through the 1930s.

Describing the impact of various writers, musicians, and artists on American culture during the Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age

Identifying contributions of turn-of-the-century inventors

Describing the emergence of the modern woman during the early 1900s

Identifying notable persons of the early 1900s

Comparing results of the economic policies of the Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover Administrations

Explain causes and effects of the Great Depression on the people of the United States.

Identifying patterns of migration during the Great Depression

Locating on a map the area of the United States known as the Dust Bowl