Missouri Learning Standards
MO.6-8.AH. American History
6-8.AH.2. Key concepts and Understandings
6-8.AH.2.CC. History: Continuity and Change
6-8.AH.2.CC.B. Compare factors motivating Europeans to explore and settle in the New World to explain colonial diversity and regional differences in North and South America.
6-8.AH.4. Key concepts and Understandings
6-8.AH.4.CC. History: Continuity and Change
6-8.AH.4.CC.A. Analyze the expansion of the United States in the early nineteenth century to trace U.S. growth and form hypotheses about future conflicts.
6-8.AH.2. Key concepts and Understandings
6-8.AH.2.PC. People, Groups, and Cultures
6-8.AH.2.PC.A. Analyze the religious., cultural, political and intellectual developments of Spanish, Portuguese, British and French regions to explain the development of diverse cultures throughout the Americas.
MO.6-8.WH. World History
6-8.WH.1. Tools of Social Science Inquiry
6-8.WH.1.CC. History: Continuity and Change
6-8.WH.1.CC.E. Analyze the causes and consequences of a specific problem in world history prior to c. 1450 as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by those trying to address the problem.