Missouri Learning Standards
MO.6-8.AH. American History
6-8.AH.1. Tools of Social Science Inquiry
6-8.AH.1.CC. History: Continuity and Change
6-8.AH.1.CC.B. Explain connections between historical context and peoples’ perspectives at the time in American history.
6-8.AH.1.CC. Economic Concepts
6-8.AH.1.EC.A. Using an American history lens, examine the opportunity costs and benefits of economic decisions on society as a whole as well as on individuals, prior to c. 1870.
6-8.AH.5. Key concepts and Understandings
6-8.AH.5.G. Geographical Study
6-8.AH.5.G.A. Analyze the United States ‘geography of North, South, and West in order to explain regional cultural, social and economic differences.
6-8.AH.4. Key concepts and Understandings
6-8.AH.4.CC. Economic Concepts
6-8.AH.4.EC.B. Explain how the expansion of industrialization, transportation and technological developments influenced different regions and the relationship among those regions.
6-8.AH.5. Key concepts and Understandings
6-8.AH.5.CC. Economic Concepts
6-8.AH.5.EC.A. Explain how the expansion of industrialization, transportation, and technological developments influenced different regions and the relationship among those regions.
6-8.AH.5.EC.B. Compare the economic strengths and weaknesses of the North and South before, during and immediately after the Civil War.