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Using Foundational Ideals to Advocate for Civil Rights and Equality
Evaluate how reform movements throughout American history appealed to the Declaration of Independence and Constitution to demand equal rights.
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Diverse Perspectives, Oppression, and Social Change in Early America
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Analyze how marginalized groups were oppressed in early American history and how diverse individuals and movements fought for equity, justice, and community advancement.
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SS.5.18West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesIdentify the characteristics and purposes of maps, globes, geographic information systems, and other geographic tools.
SS.5.20West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All agesDemonstrate an understanding of the industrial North and the agricultural South before, during and after the Civil War. • Research the roles and accomplishments of the leaders of the reform movements before and during the Civil War (e.g., abolition movement, Underground Railroad and other social reforms, etc.). • Explain how specific events and issues led to the Civil War (e.g., sectionalism fueled by issues of slavery in the territories, states’ rights, election of 1860 and secession). • Summarize key battles, strategies and turning points of the Civil War (e.g., Fort Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg, other regional battles and the surrender at Appomattox). • Compare the roles and accomplishments of historic figures of the Civil War (e.g., Abraham Lincoln (Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address) Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton and Frederick Douglass, etc.). • Explain the impact of the Civil War’s physical destruction on the nation and the people (e.g., soldiers, women, African Americans, and the civilian population, etc.).