Colonial Protests: The Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party

SS.5.16West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All ages

Illustrate the effects of settlement on the environment of the West, (e.g., changes in the physical and human systems, etc.).

SS.5.24West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All ages

Analyze the people and the factors that led to Industrialization in the late 19th century United States. • Examine how the Industrial Revolution was furthered by new inventions and technologies (e.g., light bulb, telegraph, automobile, assembly line, etc.). • Identify prominent inventors and scientists of the period and summarize their inventions or discoveries (e.g., Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers, Henry Ford and Albert Einstein, etc.). • Explain the causes and effects of immigration and urbanization on the American economy during the Industrial Revolution (e.g., role of immigrants, the growth of cities, the shift to industrialization, the rise of big business and reform movements, etc.).