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Grade 9

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WORLD HISTORY: 1500 TO THE PRESENT

  • 1

    Define Renaissance; recognize art, music, and literature as cultural characteristics of the Renaissance.SS.AAS.9.1

    1. a

      Define humanism.SS.AAS.9.1a

    2. b

      List the advances in technology that led to increased trade. Example the printing press.SS.AAS.9.1b

  • 2

    Identify major European countries on a map of Europe; define exploration, imperialism, colonization, and mercantilism.SS.AAS.9.2

    1. a

      Identify major ocean currents, wind patterns, landforms, and climates by marking them on a map.SS.AAS.9.2a

  • 3

    Define Reformation, counter-Reformation, English Reformation, and religious and secular authorities; identify key events and/or people of the Reformation.SS.AAS.9.3

  • 4

    Identify the location, geographical resources, and natural resources of Africa, India, Japan, and/or China; recognize that trade between countries leads to cultural development.SS.AAS.9.4

  • 5

    Define natural right; identify common characteristics of a monarchy and of a constitutional government.SS.AAS.9.5

    1. a

      Identify the Petition of Rights and the English Bill of Rights by giving examples of civil liberties and limited government.SS.AAS.9.5a

  • 6

    Recognize important factors of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment; identify the scientific advancements that led to the Enlightenment.SS.AAS.9.6

  • 7

    Define revolution.SS.AAS.9.7

    1. a

      Identify causes, people, and key events of the French Revolution. SS.AAS.9.7a

    2. b

      Define nationalism and liberalism.SS.AAS.9.7b

  • 8

    List the causes and effects of the revolutions in Latin America and the Caribbean including Haiti, Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. SS.AAS.9.8

  • 9

    Define capitalism, liberalism, socialism, Marxism; identify important inventors in Europe during the Industrial Revolution. SS.AAS.9.9

  • 10

    Define urbanization; recognize changes in society as a result of the Industrial Revolution; SS.AAS.9.10

    1. a

      Identify leaders of the women’s rights movement including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, and Susan B. Anthony.SS.AAS.9.10a

    2. b

      Identify leaders of the abolitionist movement including Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman.SS.AAS.9.10b

    3. c

      Identify the Emancipation Proclamation, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.SS.AAS.9.10c

  • 11

    Explain nationalism and imperialism.SS.AAS.9.11

    1. a

      Identify factors that caused European nationalism.SS.AAS.9.11a

    2. b

      Identify factors that caused Western imperialism.SS.AAS.9.11b

  • 12

    Define total war; identify key events and/or people from World War I; describe military technology used during World War I.SS.AAS.9.12

    1. a

      Describe the rise of communism in Russia during WWI. SS.AAS.9.12a

    2. b

      Identify problems created by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 including Germany’s reparations and the war guilt clause.SS.AAS.9.12b

    3. c

      Identify alliances during World War I and boundary changes after World War I. SS.AAS.9.12c

  • 13

    Identify challenges in the United States after World War I. SS.AAS.9.13

    1. a

      Identify the causes and effects of the Great Depression including the stock market crash, collapse of farm economy, Dust Bowl, collapse of savings and loans banks, inflation, poverty, homelessness, soup kitchens, and unemployment.SS.AAS.9.13a

  • 14

    Define global conflict and describe how World War II was a global conflict; recognize social, economic, and/or political changes, key events, and people from World War II including the Holocaust, Atomic Age, and the Nuremberg Trials. SS.AAS.9.14a- Identify turning points of World War II in the European and Pacific Theaters.SS.AAS.9.14

    1. b

      Identify the map changes in national borders as a result of World War II. SS.AAS.9.14b

    2. c

      Identify the Axis and Allied Powers. SS.AAS.9.14d- Identify the end results of World War II including VE-Day and VJ-Day. SS.AAS.9.14c

  • 15

    Recognize causes of the Cold War and the United States’ new role in world affairs; identify key events and/or people of the Cold War.SS.AAS.9.15

  • 16

    List some changes in world conditions that led to globalization from 1945–present; recall the definition of globalization; define terrorism and recognize its impact on the world.SS.AAS.9.16

  • 17

    Define and list characteristics of democracy including civil liberties, human rights and separation of powers.SS.AAS.9.17

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