Causes and Consequences of Global Famines in the 19th Century

Economic Transformations: Trade, Factories, and Global Shifts

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Investigate primary records of the Irish Potato Famine and colonial Indian famines to analyze how crop failures and imperial trade policies interacted.

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Economic Transformations: Trade, Factories, and Global Shifts

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

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Analyze primary and secondary sources to evaluate the positive and negative economic impacts of expansion, industrialization, and global crises.

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6.3.3Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Use primary and secondary sources to draw conclusions about the positive and negative economic impacts of expansion and major global conflicts (for example, Colombian Exchange, economic depressions, rise of factories, effects of famine, slave trade).