Citizenship and Government
Washington DC Standards. Concepts and ideals such as: individual dignity, liberty, justice, equality, individual rights, responsibility, majority and minority rights, and civil dissent. Citizens' rights and responsibilities. Plan of government. Bill of rights.
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Citizenship and Government
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Washington DC Standards
DC.5. U.S. History and Geography: Westward Expansion to the Present
5.1. The New Nation's Westward Expansion (1790-1860): Students trace the colonization, immigration, and settlement patterns of the American people from 1789 to the mid-1800s.
5.1.3. Describe the process of the 'internal slave trade' that saw Africans born in the U.S. sold into the southernmost states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina) from more northern states (Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland).
5.2. The Growth of the Republic (1800-1860): Students describe the emergence of a fledgling industrial economy.
5.2.1. Explain the expansion of plantation system and slavery as the demand for cotton production grew. (G, S, E)
5.3. The Growth of the Republic (1800-1860): Students describe the rapid growth of slavery in the South after 1800.
5.3.1. Describe how Southern colonists slowly altered their attitudes toward Africans, increasingly viewing them as permanent servants or slaves; the harsh conditions of the Middle Passage; the responses of slave families to their condition; and the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery. (S)
5.3.2. Describe the contributions of enslaved and free Africans to the economic development of the colonies. (S, E)
5.3.3. Identify the characteristics of slave life and the resistance on plantations and farms across the South. (P, S)
5.3.4. Explain the significance of and consequences ensuing from the abolition of slavery in the Northern states after the Revolution, and of the 1808 law that banned the importation of slaves into the U.S. (P, S)
5.3.5. Describe the impact of the cotton gin on the economics and culture of slavery and Southern agriculture. (E, I)
5.5. The Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1877): Students summarize the causes and consequences of the Civil War.
5.5.1. Describe the extension of and controversy about slavery into the territories, including popular sovereignty, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. (P, S)
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