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Explain the purposes and uses of governmentSSHS.CVC.1.1.a

Explain structures of governments in ancient civilizations (e.g., Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Ghana, Mali, China, India, Mesoamerica)SSHS.CVC.1.1.b

Explain structures of governments in modern societiesSSHS.CVC.1.1.c

Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each form of government (e.g., oligarchy, democracy, monarchy), and argue who benefits under each formSSHS.CVC.1.1.d

Explain the rationale and conditions for governmental change (e.g., elections, protests, insurrections, revolutions)SSHS.CVC.1.1.e

Analyze the legislative function of government and checks upon itSSHS.CVC.1.2.a

Analyze the executive function of government and checks upon itSSHS.CVC.1.2.b

Analyze the judicial function of government and checks upon itSSHS.CVC.1.2.c

Analyze governmental functions that protect and serve people, and argue the impact of those functionsSSHS.CVC.1.2.d

Analyze ways governmental power can be limited by societies, and argue who benefits from those limitsSSHS.CVC.1.2.e

Explain the differences between "citizenship" as it pertains to being an active and responsible participant in any community or group and legal citizenshipSSHS.CVC.1.3.a

Analyze the changes in how legal citizenship has been defined over time, and argue the impacts and who has benefitedSSHS.CVC.1.3.b

Explain the responsibilities of being an active and responsible participant in a communitySSHS.CVC.1.3.c

Analyze the barriers to full participation as citizens, and argue who benefits from themSSHS.CVC.1.3.d

Analyze instances when citizenship has been challenged or denied, and argue who benefitedSSHS.CVC.1.3.e

Analyze the ideas of Enlightenment figures (e.g., Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, Montesquieu), and argue the impact of those ideas across societal groupsSSHS.CVC.2.1.a

Analyze the components of republicanism and democracy, and argue who benefits from eachSSHS.CVC.2.1.b

Analyze the impact of social and economic changes after the Revolutionary War, and argue who benefitedSSHS.CVC.2.1.c

Explain the challenges to the government created under the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United StatesSSHS.CVC.2.1.d

Analyze the social and economic status of the Founding Fathers, and argue their impacts to the creation of the United StatesSSHS.CVC.2.1.e

Analyze the ideas expressed in Common Sense, and argue its impactSSHS.CVC.2.2.a

Explain events leading to a declaration of independence from Britain (e.g., Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Tea Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre)SSHS.CVC.2.2.b

Explain Jefferson's ideas about rights and responsibilities, and analyze how those compare with his personal lifeSSHS.CVC.2.2.c

Analyze the perspectives on natural rights and the role of government outlined in the Declaration of Independence, and argue the impacts of those perspectivesSSHS.CVC.2.2.d

Analyze the rights and responsibilities given to the states and the national government under the Articles of Confederation, and argue who benefited from themSSHS.CVC.2.3.a

Analyze the limitations of the national government under the Articles of Confederation, and argue the impact of those limitations and who benefited from themSSHS.CVC.2.3.b

Analyze the rationale for, and argue the impacts of Shays' RebellionSSHS.CVC.2.3.c

Analyze the definition of and the rationale for federalism, and argue who benefited from that systemSSHS.CVC.2.4.a

Analyze the arguments and rationales found in the Federalist Papers, and argue who benefited (Suggested Federalist Papers – 9, 10, 39, 51, 70, 78, 84)SSHS.CVC.2.4.b

Analyze the distinctions between the Virginia and New Jersey plans, and argue who benefited under each planSSHS.CVC.2.4.c

Analyze the impact of the Constitution on different groups in American society, and argue who benefitedSSHS.CVC.2.4.d

Analyze the reasons why Rhode Island refused to send a delegate to the Constitutional ConventionSSHS.CVC.2.4.e

Explain the rationale for components of representative government, and argue who benefits under that systemSSHS.CVC.3.1.a

Analyze the influence of Enlightenment ideas on the Constitution of the United States (e.g., social contract, separation of powers)SSHS.CVC.3.1.b

Explain the influence of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy on the ConstitutionSSHS.CVC.3.1.c

Analyze the validity of differing perceptions of the Constitution, and argue who benefited from each positionSSHS.CVC.3.1.d

Analyze the elements of the Constitution and the structure of government they created, and argue its impactSSHS.CVC.3.1.e

Explain the influences of the anti-federalists on the ConstitutionSSHS.CVC.3.2.a

Analyze the reasons for Rhode Island's reluctance to ratify the ConstitutionSSHS.CVC.3.2.b

Analyze the rationale for and components of the Bill of Rights, and argue the impact and who benefitedSSHS.CVC.3.2.c

Analyze the relationship between the Constitution and the Bill of RightsSSHS.CVC.3.2.d

Explain the elements of Enlightenment thinking related to slavery, analyze the impact of that thinking, and argue who benefitedSSHS.CVC.3.3.a

Analyze the arguments among representatives at the Constitutional Convention over slaverySSHS.CVC.3.3.b

Analyze the manner in which slavery is addressed in the Constitution, and argue the impact and who benefited from those decisionsSSHS.CVC.3.3.c

Analyze how the Constitution reinforced the system of slavery (e.g., the Three-Fifths Clause, the Importation Clause, the Slave Insurrection Clause, and the Fugitive Slave Clause)SSHS.CVC.3.3.d

Analyze the distinctions between civil rights and civil libertiesSSHS.CVC.3.4.a

Analyze challenges to civil rights (e.g., denial of voting rights to some groups, redlining) and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.3.4.b

Analyze challenges to civil liberties (e.g., segregation, the internment of Japanese Americans, discrimination against people based on their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity), and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.3.4.c

Analyze constitutional amendments, Supreme Court decisions, and legislation that had to do with the expansion of rights for Black Americans (e.g., 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act) and resistance to these measures, and argue the impactsSSHS.CVC.3.4.d

Analyze constitutional amendments, Supreme Court decisions, and legislation that had to do with the expansion of rights for women (e.g., 19th amendment, proposed Equal Rights Amendment) and resistance to these measures. and argue the impactsSSHS.CVC.3.4.e

Explain Montesquieu's rationale for check and balances in governmentSSHS.CVC.4.1.a

Analyze ways that checks and balances are instantiated in the structure of the national government, and argue the impacts of that inclusionSSHS.CVC.4.1.b

Analyze ways that checks and balances are instantiated between state and national governments, and argue the impacts of that inclusionSSHS.CVC.4.1.c

Explain the functions of the legislative branchSSHS.CVC.4.2.a

Analyze the distinctions in the roles played by the legislative branch in domestic and foreign policySSHS.CVC.4.2.b

Analyze the checks that the legislative branch exercises on the executive and judicial branchesSSHS.CVC.4.2.c

Analyze the changes in the power of the legislative branch over timeSSHS.CVC.4.2.d

Analyze the functions of the executive branchSSHS.CVC.4.3.a

Analyze the distinctions in the roles of the executive branch in domestic and foreign policySSHS.CVC.4.3.b

Analyze the checks that the executive branch exercises on the legislative and judicial branchesSSHS.CVC.4.3.c

Analyze the changes in the power of the executive branch over timeSSHS.CVC.4.3.d

Explain the functions of the judicial branchSSHS.CVC.4.4.a

Analyze the checks that the judicial branch exercises on the legislative and executive branches (e.g., judicial review, impeachment)SSHS.CVC.4.4.b

Analyze the changes in the power of the judicial branch over timeSSHS.CVC.4.4.c

Explain the powers of state governments as explained in the Constitution of the United StatesSSHS.CVC.4.5.a

Explain the powers of local governments as explained in the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of RightsSSHS.CVC.4.5.b

Explain the definition of sovereignty and the role of federal and state recognition of tribesSSHS.CVC.4.5.c

Explain the powers and structures of tribal governmentsSSHS.CVC.4.5.d

Analyze the powers, structures, and authorities of local municipalities, the state of Rhode Island, and local tribal governments (e.g., Narragansett in RI, Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan in CT, and Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head and Mashpee Wampanoag in MA)SSHS.CVC.4.5.e

Analyze the relationships between different levels of government and their powersSSHS.CVC.4.5.f

Analyze the relationships between the Narragansett tribal and local and state governments and their powersSSHS.CVC.4.5.g

Analyze the various perspectives on governmental factions in the Federalist Papers, and argue the impacts of those viewsSSHS.CVC.5.1.a

Analyze the distinctions between the First and Second Party Systems, and argue the impact of eachSSHS.CVC.5.1.b

Analyze the changes in nature and conditions of political parties over time, and argue their impacts and who benefitedSSHS.CVC.5.1.c

Analyze the rationale for and third-party challenges (e.g., Theodore Roosevelt, Robert La Follette, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Ross Perot), and argue the impact of those challengesSSHS.CVC.5.1.d

Explain the structure and functions of political partiesSSHS.CVC.5.2.a

Analyze the nature of party platforms, identify examples, and argue the impacts on the political systemSSHS.CVC.5.2.b

Analyze the demographics of major and minor political parties in the United States todaySSHS.CVC.5.2.c

Analyze the nature of partisanship, identify examples, and argue the impacts on the political system and who benefitsSSHS.CVC.5.2.d

Explain the purpose of a political interest groupSSHS.CVC.5.3.a

Analyze the agendas of interest groups (e.g., public, economic, religious, ideological), and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.5.3.b

Analyze the approaches interest groups use to influence public policy (e.g., engage politicians, engage media, lobby, donate to campaigns), and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.5.3.c

Analyze the reasons why people become politically involvedSSHS.CVC.5.4.a

Explain opportunities to become politically involved, and argue the impacts of that involvementSSHS.CVC.5.4.b

Analyze barriers to becoming politically involved (e.g., voting restrictions, intimidation, lack of support) and resistance to those barriersSSHS.CVC.5.4.c

Analyze how money is used to influence politics, and argue who benefitsSSHS.CVC.5.5.a

Analyze how media influences politics, and argue who benefitsSSHS.CVC.5.5.b

Explain the role of polling in politicsSSHS.CVC.5.5.c

Analyze the rationale for laws regulating the use of money to influence politics, and argue the impact of those lawsSSHS.CVC.5.5.d

Analyze methods people have used to influence politics (e.g., the Civil Rights Movement's marches, sit-ins), and argue their impact on effecting changeSSHS.CVC.5.5.e

Analyze the similarities and differences among voting systems (e.g., plurality, majority, proportional), and argue the advantages and disadvantages of eachSSHS.CVC.6.1.a

Explain the conditions and process of registering to vote (e.g., eligibility and debates about eligibility)SSHS.CVC.6.1.b

Analyze the international principles of electoral integrity, and argue who benefits from themSSHS.CVC.6.1.c

Explain the purposes of different kinds of primary elections (e.g., open, closed, blanket)SSHS.CVC.6.2.a

Explain the purposes of general electionsSSHS.CVC.6.2.b

Explain approaches to monitoring elections and reporting of results, and analyze debates questioning the integrity these processesSSHS.CVC.6.2.c

Analyze the historical changes in voting requirements (e.g., property ownership including the Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island, religion, gender, race), and argue who has benefited from themSSHS.CVC.6.3.a

Analyze the legal and extra-legal approaches to restricting voting, and argue the impacts of those approachesSSHS.CVC.6.3.b

Analyze the similarities and differences in approaches groups have taken to fight for voting rights, and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.6.3.c

Analyze voting behavior and patterns of voting, and argue what influences the behavior and the impacts of that behavior on outcomes (e.g., on elections, on decisions over controversial issues)SSHS.CVC.6.4.a

Analyze patterns of voting over time, and argue the impacts changes in patterns have had on outcomesSSHS.CVC.6.4.b

Analyze gerrymandering, and argue its effects on outcomes and who benefitsSSHS.CVC.6.4.c

Analyze contemporary debates and issues around voting (e.g., voting hours, transportation to polls, voter identification requirements including the allowance of using tribal IDs to vote in Rhode Island, role of the electoral college, absentee voting) and argue a stance on an issueSSHS.CVC.6.4.d

Argue justifications for protest and dissent based on freedom of speechSSHS.CVC.7.1.a

Argue justifications for protest and dissent based on freedom of assemblySSHS.CVC.7.1.b

Argue justifications for protest and dissent based on the right to petitionSSHS.CVC.7.1.c

Argue justifications for protest and dissent based on the Fourteenth AmendmentSSHS.CVC.7.1.d

Analyze the approaches taken by people working for the abolition of slavery, and argue the impact of those effortsSSHS.CVC.7.2.a

Analyze approaches taken by people working for women's rights, and argue the impact of those effortsSSHS.CVC.7.2.b

Analyze approaches taken by people working for the rights of laborers, and argue the impact of those effortsSSHS.CVC.7.2.c

Identify a range of contemporary issues (e.g., mass incarceration, gun ownership, affordable housing, immigration)SSHS.CVC.7.3.a

Analyze the varied perspectives on themSSHS.CVC.7.3.b

Analyze options for and the approaches taken to resolve those issuesSSHS.CVC.7.3.c

Argue a position on one or more of the issuesSSHS.CVC.7.3.d

Analyze the components of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and argue who benefitsSSHS.CVC.8.1.a

Analyze the influences of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on U.S. foreign policySSHS.CVC.8.1.b

Analyze the functions of the United Nations and World Court in terms of human rights in particular, and argue who benefitsSSHS.CVC.8.1.c

Explain extra-governmental organizations' (e.g., Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch) efforts to foster human rights and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.8.1.d

Analyze responsibilities for and process of enforcing international law, and argue who benefitsSSHS.CVC.8.1.e

Analyze the people and positions in the United States government who make decisions on where and when to allocate resources to other countries (e.g., funds, military, weapons, food, medicine), and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.8.2.a

Analyze the rationales for and U.S. interventions around human rights and genocides in other countries (e.g., Armenian genocide, Jewish Holocaust, Cambodian genocide, Somalian genocide, Darfur genocide, Rwandan genocide), and argue their impactsSSHS.CVC.8.2.b

Analyze genocides in the United States (e.g., both physical and cultural genocides of Indigenous peoples), and argue the impactSSHS.CVC.8.2.c

Analyze the rationale for foreign intervention (e.g., the United States' involvement in the politics of Vietnam, Western Asia (Middle East), and other countries), and argue the impacts of those interventionsSSHS.CVC.8.2.d

Analyze issues that cross national and cultural boundaries (e.g., climate change, disease, human trafficking), and argue their impactSSHS.CVC.8.3.a

Analyze local issues that connect with global concerns (e.g., food insecurity, mental health, ecological issues), and argue their impactSSHS.CVC.8.3.b

Explain opportunities for people to become involved in issues beyond the United States (e.g., volunteering for organizations like Peace Corps, using career skills to work for organizations like Doctors Without Borders), and argue the potential impactsSSHS.CVC.8.3.c

Explain other ways to act as responsible citizens of the globe, and argue the potential impactsSSHS.CVC.8.3.d

Identify the locations of Indigenous groups across North AmericaSSHS.USI.1.1.a

Analyze the similarities and differences between Indigenous groups (e.g., social norms, lifeways, use of natural resources)SSHS.USI.1.1.b

Explain interactions among Indigenous groups (e.g., cooperation, alliances, conflict), and analyze the ways interactions influenced cultural change over timeSSHS.USI.1.1.c

Analyze similarities and differences across the cultures, government structures, and lived experiences of Indigenous peoples local to Rhode Island and their interactions with each other prior to the arrival of Europeans (e.g., Nahaganset (Narragansett), Wampanoag (Pokanoket, Mashpee, Aquinnah), Nehantick and Eastern Nehantick (Niantic), Pequot, Nipmuc, Massachuset, Mohegan, Manissean)SSHS.USI.1.1.d

Explain different ways we know and understand the past (e.g., oral traditions from Indigenous descendants, documentation from early explorers, historical records, archaeology), and analyze associated biasesSSHS.USI.1.1.e

Explain the conditions and roles in the so-called Columbian Exchange, and argue who benefited from that situation (e.g., effects of disease on Indigenous populations, transplantation of plant and animal species)SSHS.USI.1.2.a

Explain the political interactions between Indigenous groups and English colonists, and argue who benefited from those interactions (e.g., alliances, trade, warfare - Bacon's Rebellion, Pequot War, King Philip's War)SSHS.USI.1.2.b

Explain the reasons for cultural change in Indigenous groups (e.g., effects on lifeways, access to resources), and analyze ways that Indigenous lifeways influenced European colonistsSSHS.USI.1.2.c

Analyze the conditions of the enslavement of Narragansett people after King Philip's War and the system of indentured servitude of Indigenous people in New England coloniesSSHS.USI.1.2.d

Argue the impact of mythmaking (e.g., Pocahontas and John Smith, the "First" Thanksgiving, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Squanto)SSHS.USI.1.2.e

Explain the rationale for and components of a joint-stock company (e.g., Virginia Company, Plymouth Company, Massachusetts Bay Company)SSHS.USI.1.3.a

Explain the geographic and environmental conditions of the English coloniesSSHS.USI.1.3.b

Explain the religious influences on English colonistsSSHS.USI.1.3.c

Explain the nature of government in English colonies, including Rhode Island, and analyze whose interests were served (e.g., governmental structure, voting rights)SSHS.USI.1.3.d

Analyze the rationale for and conditions of indentured servitude from the perspectives of all involved (e.g., indentured servants, the people in the households in which they served), and argue who benefited and the impacts on societal structureSSHS.USI.1.3.e

Analyze the rationale for and conditions of African enslavement, and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.1.3.f

Explain the enslavement and resistance of African peoples, and argue whose interests enslavement servedSSHS.USI.1.5.a

Explain the nature and conditions of the Triangle Trade, and analyze who profited and who did notSSHS.USI.1.5.b

Explain the nature and conditions of the Middle Passage, and analyze how it affected the participantsSSHS.USI.1.5.c

Explain chattel slavery, and argue whose interests it servedSSHS.USI.1.5.d

Explain Rhode Island's participation in the African slave trade, and argue who was complicit and who benefitedSSHS.USI.1.5.e

Explain the conditions of mercantilism (e.g., trade, wealth, governmental protection), and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.2.1.a

Explain the elements of colonial economies (e.g., subsistence and commercial farming, shipbuilding, trade), and argue whose interests they servedSSHS.USI.2.1.b

Explain the rationales for and elements of colonial governments, and argue whose interests they servedSSHS.USI.2.1.c

Analyze the causes and conditions of the Seven Years War (e.g., frontier tensions, Indigenous alliances), and argue the impacts (e.g., British victory, loss of French territory, Indigenous hopes to stall British expansion)SSHS.USI.2.2.a

Explain the rationale for British taxation policies (e.g., British economic issues due to cost of Seven Years War, tensions over land), and analyze colonial reactions to those policies (e.g., petitions, boycotts, protests, riots)SSHS.USI.2.2.b

Analyze how colonial individuals and groups resisted British policies (e.g., Sons and Daughters of Liberty, spinning bees, Samuel Adams, Crispus Attucks), and argue the impact of their actionsSSHS.USI.2.2.c

Analyze the efficacy of the ways Rhode Island colonists resisted British policies (e.g., Stamp Act Riot, Gaspee Affair)SSHS.USI.2.2.d

Explain the rationale for and actions of the Committees of Correspondence and the Continental Congresses and Rhode Island's role in eachSSHS.USI.2.2.e

Explain the origin of and arguments made in Common SenseSSHS.USI.2.3a

Identify the nature and conditions of colonial grievances against King George III in the Declaration of IndependenceSSHS.USI.2.3b

Analyze the efficacy of enlightenment ideas evident in founding documents (e.g., social contract, natural rights, separation of powers)SSHS.USI.2.3c

Analyze the rationale behind the removal of the anti-slavery passage in the Declaration of Independence, and argue who benefited and the impacts of that actionSSHS.USI.2.3d

Analyze the range of colonial responses to the Declaration of Independence based on one's positionality (e.g., Frederick Douglass, Abigail Adams, Patriots, Loyalists)SSHS.USI.2.3e

Analyze the uses of the Declaration of Independence in the colonial cause, and argue its impactSSHS.USI.2.3f

Identify military personnel of the American Revolution (e.g., George Washington, Nathanael Greene), analyze their contributions, and argue their impacts on the WarSSHS.USI.2.4.a

Explain the involvement of different social groups in the American Revolution (e.g., Black and Indigenous soldiers of the Rhode Island Black Regiment, female camp followers), analyze their contributions, and argue their impacts on the WarSSHS.USI.2.4.b

Identify notable battles and events of the Revolutionary War and argue their impacts on the course of the WarSSHS.USI.2.4.c

Explain Rhode Island's role in the Revolutionary War and the Battle of Rhode IslandSSHS.USI.2.4.d

Analyze European involvement in the War, and argue how they impacted the course of the WarSSHS.USI.2.4.e

Analyze the economic and geographic outcomes of the Revolutionary War, and argue who benefited from the American victorySSHS.USI.2.5a

Analyze the effects of the Revolutionary War on social norms and structuresSSHS.USI.2.5b

Analyze the effects of the Revolutionary War on governmental practices, and argue who those practices benefitedSSHS.USI.2.5c

Explain gradual emancipation laws in northern colonies (e.g., Rhode Island's Gradual Emancipation Act of 1784, Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery of 1780), analyze the laws as a type of compromise, and argue who benefited from those lawsSSHS.USI.2.5d

Argue the ways the outcomes of the American Revolution are still relevant to todaySSHS.USI.2.5e

Identify elements of the Articles of Confederation (e.g., relationship between the states and the national government, voting and representation, and the structure of government)SSHS.USI.3.1.a

Analyze the challenges and opportunities of the Articles of ConfederationSSHS.USI.3.1.b

Analyze the cause and course of Shays' Rebellion and what it revealed about the Articles of Confederation, and argue the impacts of the event on governmentSSHS.USI.3.1.c

Identify enlightenment ideas represented in the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States (e.g., social contract theory, natural rights, religious tolerance)SSHS.USI.3.2.a

Analyze the similarities and differences between the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Constitution of the United StatesSSHS.USI.3.2.b

Analyze the similarities and differences between a democracy and a republicSSHS.USI.3.2.c

Explain the economic influences on the development of the Constitution of the United StatesSSHS.USI.3.2.d

Identify the authors of the Federalist Papers, and explain their reasons for writing themSSHS.USI.3.3.a

Analyze the Federalist and Anti-Federalists arguments over national v. state governmental powerSSHS.USI.3.3.b

Analyze the influence of Federalist #10, including the idea of majority rule and minority rightsSSHS.USI.3.3.c

Analyze the goals outlined in the Preamble to the Constitution of the United StatesSSHS.USI.3.4.a

Analyze the branches of government and their relationships to one anotherSSHS.USI.3.4.b

Explain the powers reserved to the statesSSHS.USI.3.4.c

Explain the enunciation of rights and liberties under the Bill of Rights, and analyze how those rights and liberties have changed over timeSSHS.USI.3.4.d

Explain Rhode Island's role in the drafting of the Bill of Rights and its ratification of the Constitution of the United StatesSSHS.USI.3.4.e

Explain the powers and responsibilities of the executive branch, and analyze how they have changed over timeSSHS.USI.3.5.a

Explain the powers and responsibilities of the legislative branch, and analyze how they have changed over timeSSHS.USI.3.5.b

Explain the powers and responsibilities of the judicial branch, and analyze how they have changed over timeSSHS.USI.3.5.c

Explain the relationships among the branches, and analyze the benefits and drawbacks of how checks and balances operate amongst the branchesSSHS.USI.3.5.d

Analyze women's status and rights in the Early Republic, and argue the benefits and drawbacks from multiple perspectives (e.g., women, men, society as a whole)SSHS.USI.4.1.a

Analyze the conditions of enslaved peoples during this time, and argue the benefits and drawbacks from multiple perspectives (e.g., the enslaved, enslavers, society as a whole - socially and economically)SSHS.USI.4.1.b

Analyze the nature and conditions of voting rights, and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.4.1.c

Analyze the constitutional implications for Indigenous peoples, and argue the benefits and drawbacks from multiple perspectives (e.g., Indigenous governments, Indigenous individuals, United States government)SSHS.USI.4.1.d

Analyze the range of economic issues after the Revolutionary War, and argue how those issues affected different groups differentlySSHS.USI.4.2.a

Analyze the motivations and outcomes of establishing the Bank of the United States and argue who benefited of that actionSSHS.USI.4.2.b

Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of expanding trade, and argue who benefited from that actionSSHS.USI.4.2.c

Analyze the reasons for and outcomes of the Whiskey Rebellion, and argue who benefited from that eventSSHS.USI.4.2.d

Explain the rationale for and analyze the outcomes of U.S. involvement in the French and Haitian revolutions, and argue who benefited from that involvementSSHS.USI.4.3.a

Analyze the nature and conditions of U.S. foreign policy (e.g., John Jay's Treaty, Treaty of San Lorenzo / Pinckney's Treaty), and argue who benefited from those policiesSSHS.USI.4.3.b

Analyze the effects of the Monroe Doctrine on U.S. foreign policy and how the doctrine has changed over timeSSHS.USI.4.3.c

Explain the tenets of the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties, and analyze who they representedSSHS.USI.4.4.a

Explain rationales for and actions of political parties, analyze how those rationales and actions have changed, and argue who benefited from those actionsSSHS.USI.4.4.b

Analyze the actions of political parties during the 1796 and 1800 elections, and argue their impacts on the electionsSSHS.USI.4.4.c

Analyze Jefferson's views of and actions toward land acquisition, and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.5.1.a

Analyze the effects of the First Seminole War and Adams-Onis Treaty, and argue who benefited from those actionsSSHS.USI.5.1.b

Explain the rationale for and results of Manifest Destiny, analyze Indigenous response and resistance, and argue who benefited (e.g., the Louisiana Purchase 1803, Spanish Florida 1810-1819, Texas Annexation 1845, Oregon Country from Great Britain 1846, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848, Gadsden Purchase 1853)SSHS.USI.5.1.c

Analyze the rationale for and outcomes of the Mexican War (e.g., Mexican freedom from Spain in 1821, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo 1848, California Constitution 1849), and argue who benefited (e.g., effects on Mexican citizens, Indigenous response) from that actionSSHS.USI.5.1.d

Analyze the rationale for, conditions of, and results of the Market Revolution, and argue who benefited from that situationSSHS.USI.5.2.a

Analyze the nature and conditions of capitalism, and argue who benefited from that systemSSHS.USI.5.2.b

Analyze the nature and conditions of industrialization, and argue who benefited from that movementSSHS.USI.5.2.c

Analyze the nature and conditions of mechanization, and argue who benefited from that movementSSHS.USI.5.2.d

Explain Rhode Island's role in industry during this periodSSHS.USI.5.2.e

Analyze the roles, conditions, and outcomes of immigrant participation in the United States economy (i.e., European and Asian immigrants), and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.5.2.f

Explain the nature of Jackson's political beliefs, and argue who benefited from those beliefsSSHS.USI.5.3.a

Analyze the nature and outcomes of Jacksonian Democracy, and argue who benefited from those outcomesSSHS.USI.5.3.b

Explain the rationale for the Second Party System, and argue who benefited from that approachSSHS.USI.5.3.c

Analyze the nature and outcomes of Jackson's treatment of Indigenous people, and argue who benefited from those outcomesSSHS.USI.5.3.d

Analyze the characteristics of the Textile Revolution, and argue the impacts on different groups of people (e.g., women, enslaved people, immigrants, children) and who benefited from that situationSSHS.USI.5.4.a

Analyze the impetus for European migration to the United States and how that changed the demographics of workersSSHS.USI.5.4.b

Analyze the nature and conditions leading to corporations, and argue who benefited from that movementSSHS.USI.5.4.c

Analyze the nature, conditions, and outcomes of the American labor movement and how it has changed over timeSSHS.USI.5.4.d

Analyze the rationale for and outcomes of white migration west, and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.5.5.a

Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush (e.g., on Indigenous peoples, on immigration of people from China, on the environment, on the economy), and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.5.5.b

Analyze the impact of governmental actions in removal of Indigenous groups (e.g., Trail of Tears, Indian boarding schools), and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.5.5.c

Analyze Indigenous resistance to white migrationSSHS.USI.5.5.d

Explain Indigenous efforts to preserve and perpetuate their communities (e.g., religious practices, traditions surrounding food, clothing, art, ceremony)SSHS.USI.5.5.e

Analyze the nature of slavery (e.g., types of labor, living accommodations, Slave Codes), and argue who benefited from that practiceSSHS.USI.5.6.a

Analyze the relationship between cotton, U.S. expansion, and the expansion of slavery, and argue the impacts and who benefitedSSHS.USI.5.6.b

Analyze governmental actions on expansion of slavery, and argue the impactsSSHS.USI.5.6.c

Analyze the relationship between slavery and the addition of new states (e.g., California, Missouri, Texas)SSHS.USI.5.6.d

Analyze the conditions and actions taken that led to the preservation and perpetuation of African traditions and people (e.g., music, clothing, religious beliefs)SSHS.USI.5.6.e

Analyze the efficacy of efforts to resist slavery (e.g., self-emancipation, slowing down work, destruction of property, Stono Rebellion 1739, Nat Turner's Rebellion 1831)SSHS.USI.5.6.f

Explain the rationale for and nature of the Second Great Awakening, and argue who benefited from that movementSSHS.USI.6.1.a

Explain the fundamental tenets of the Second Great AwakeningSSHS.USI.6.1.b

Analyze the goals and outcomes of the Second Great Awakening, and argue who benefited from that movementSSHS.USI.6.1.c

Argue the impact of attempts by reformers to change American society in the antebellum period.SSHS.USI.6.2

Analyze the goals for and outcomes of institutional reform movements (e.g., prisons, schools) and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.6.2.a

Analyze the goals and outcomes for the temperance movement and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.6.2.b

Analyze connections between the abolitionist and women's right movements and argue who benefitedSSHS.USI.6.2.c

Analyze the religious and political rationales for abolitionSSHS.USI.6.3.a

Identify the notable leaders and followers of the abolition movement (e.g., Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, including the role of Elizabeth Buffum Chace in the Underground Railroad in Rhode Island), analyze their contributions, and argue their impacts on the movementSSHS.USI.6.3.b

Analyze the political and economic approaches to abolishing slavery (e.g., petitions to Congress, literature, protests, boycotts), and argue the impact of those approachesSSHS.USI.6.3.c

Analyze the assumptions behind the Cult of True Womanhood and argue who benefited from this conceptSSHS.USI.6.4.a

Analyze the value of benevolent associations to increase women's participation in public life (e.g., The Society for the Relief of Poor Widows and Small Children, Female Humane Association, Ladies Charleston Volunteer Aid Society), and argue the impacts of that participationSSHS.USI.6.4.b

Explain the increase in women's educational opportunities and argue who benefited from those opportunitiesSSHS.USI.6.4.c

Analyze the growth of women's suffrage movement and argue its impactsSSHS.USI.6.4.d

Analyze the arguments in favor of slavery and argue who benefited from this practiceSSHS.USI.6.5.a

Analyze the influence of governmental actions on regional differencesSSHS.USI.6.5.b

Analyze white reactions to enslaved people's uprisings and argue the impacts of those reactionsSSHS.USI.6.5.c

Explain the role of economics in regional divisionsSSHS.USI.6.5.d

Analyze the nature and conditions of antebellum sectionalism and argue who benefited from this situationSSHS.USI.7.1.a

Analyze the implications of industrialization for sectionalismSSHS.USI.7.1.b

Analyze the effects of political decisions on sectionalism (e.g., Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854, Dred Scott decision 1857, Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry 1859) and argue the impact of those actionsSSHS.USI.7.1.c

Analyze the rationale for and the outcomes of the rise of the Republican partySSHS.USI.7.1.d

Analyze components of industry and agriculture during this time period, and argue their impacts on the development of the Civil WarSSHS.USI.7.2.a

Analyze the relative advantages and disadvantages of Union and Confederate military leadership and argue their impacts to the WarSSHS.USI.7.2.b

Explain the distinctions between a war of offense and a war of defenseSSHS.USI.7.2.c

Explain the roles fulfilled by Black Americans during the Civil War(e.g., roles of Black regiments including the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Unit (Colored)), analyze their experiences and contributions, and argue the impacts of their effortsSSHS.USI.7.3.a

Explain the roles fulfilled by Indigenous Americans during the Civil War, analyze their experiences and contributions, and argue the impacts of their effortsSSHS.USI.7.3.b

Explain the roles fulfilled by women during the Civil War (e.g., Kady Brownell, Katharine Prescott Wormeley, Julia Ward Howe), analyze their experiences and contributions, and argue the impacts of their effortsSSHS.USI.7.3.c

Explain the roles fulfilled by immigrants during the Civil War, analyze their experiences and contributions, and argue the impacts of their effortsSSHS.USI.7.3.d

Explain the rationale for and conditions of the Emancipation ProclamationSSHS.USI.7.4.a

Analyze the scope and outcomes of the Emancipation Proclamation, and argue its impactSSHS.USI.7.4.b

Analyze Black American responses to the Emancipation Proclamation (e.g., General Order No.3 and Juneteenth)SSHS.USI.7.4.c

Analyze the role and implications of the attack on Fort Sumter for the Civil War, and argue the impacts of the outcomeSSHS.USI.7.5.a

Explain the roles of military leaders during the war (e.g., Abraham Lincoln, Ambrose Burnside, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson), analyze their contributions, and argue their impacts on the WarSSHS.USI.7.5.b

Analyze decisive battles (e.g., Antietam, Vicksburg), and argue their impacts on the course of the WarSSHS.USI.7.5.c

Analyze the relevance of the battle of GettysburgSSHS.USI.7.5.d

Analyze the rationale for and components of Lincoln's approach to Reconstruction, and argue who benefited from that approachSSHS.USI.7.6.a

Analyze the rationale for and components of the Radical Republicans' plan for Reconstruction, and argue who benefited from that planSSHS.USI.7.6.b

Explain the rationale for and analyze the outcome of the impeachment of Andrew JohnsonSSHS.USI.7.6.c

Analyze the components and outcomes of Reconstruction, and argue who benefited from the approachSSHS.USI.7.6.d

Analyze components and outcomes of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, and argue who benefited from those amendmentsSSHS.USI.7.7.a

Argue ways that the 15th Amendment was limitedSSHS.USI.7.7.b

Analyze the reactions of Black Americans to the end of the Civil WarSSHS.USI.7.7.c

Explain the importance of education for Black Americans after the Civil War, including roles of institutions such as the Freedmen's bureau and Rhode Island Association for FreedmenSSHS.USI.7.7.d

Analyze the components and outcomes of sharecropping, and argue who benefited from that practiceSSHS.USI.7.7.e

Identify major inventions and innovations from the late 19th Century, and analyze how they contributed to the expansion of industrializationSSHS.USII.1.1.a

Analyze how industrialization changed how people lived their lives and earned their living (e.g., changes to farming, mining, and manufacturing industries), and argue how different groups of people were impacted in different waysSSHS.USII.1.1.b

Analyze the relationships between urbanization and industrialization (e.g., urban crowding, sanitation issues), and argue their implications for people in societySSHS.USII.1.1.c

Explain the purpose, role, and defining characteristics of labor unions in the late 19th century, analyze the relationships between labor unions and their members and labor unions and business owners, and argue the impacts and who benefitedSSHS.USII.1.1.d

Analyze the effects of urbanization on the environmentSSHS.USII.1.1.e

Analyze the rationale behind the removal of Indigenous peoples from their lands, and argue how different groups of people were impacted both short- and long-termSSHS.USII.1.2.a

Explain the definition of settler colonialism, and analyze how it is similar and different from manifest destinySSHS.USII.1.2.b

Explain the role of the federal government in supporting industrialization and westward expansion (e.g., Morrill Tariff and Land Grant Act 1862, Homestead Acts 1862, Pacific Railway Act of 1862)SSHS.USII.1.2.c

Analyze the efficacy of the policies and laws created after the Civil War related to industrialization (e.g., Sherman Antitrust Act, Sherman Silver Purchase Act, McKinley Tariff Act), and argue how they impacted societySSHS.USII.1.2.d

Analyze the rationale for and conditions of sharecropping, and argue its impact on Black AmericansSSHS.USII.1.3.a

Argue the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson on segregationSSHS.USII.1.3.b

Explain the rationale for and conditions of the Great MigrationSSHS.USII.1.3.c

Analyze the policies and actions taken to enforce segregation, and argue the impact of those policies and actionsSSHS.USII.1.3.d

Analyze the similarities and differences in the backgrounds, cultures, and lived experiences of U.S. immigrants after the Civil War (e.g., those from Italy, Poland, Russia, Portugal, Greece, Armenia, China, Japan, Korea, Punjab, Bengal, India, Mexico)SSHS.USII.1.4.a

Analyze the policies and practices of the U.S. government toward immigration (e.g., Chinese Exclusion Act 1882, Alien Land Act 1913, Immigration Act of 1924), and argue who benefited from those policies and practicesSSHS.USII.1.4.b

Analyze the relationships among immigration, urbanization, and industrialization, and argue the impacts of those relationshipsSSHS.USII.1.4.c

Analyze the patterns of immigration and urbanization during the late 19th century, and explain the formations of ethnic neighborhoods in cities and their benefitsSSHS.USII.1.4.d

Explain the purpose and role of Populism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g., Farmers' Alliance and Grange movements)SSHS.USII.1.5.a

Analyze the evolution of Populism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g., People's Party, merger with the Democratic Party in 1896)SSHS.USII.1.5.b

Analyze the influence of Populism on politics and social conditions and argue the legacy of that movementSSHS.USII.1.5.c

Explain the rationale for and conditions of the Spanish-American War, and analyze its outcomesSSHS.USII.1.6.a

Analyze United States foreign policies of expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g., Roosevelt Corollary, "Big Stick" ideology), and argue their impactsSSHS.USII.1.6.b

Analyze U.S. foreign policy at home in the U.S., and argue the impactsSSHS.USII.1.6.c

Analyze U.S. foreign policy on relations with other countries, and argue the impactsSSHS.USII.1.6.d

Identify the backgrounds, and analyze the perspectives of individuals and groups of the Progressive Era (e.g., Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Addams, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Woodrow Wilson) and argue the impact of the role(s) they fulfilledSSHS.USII.2.1.a

Analyze ways in which figures and groups of Progressives used their power to bring about changeSSHS.USII.2.1.b

Analyze the changes in rules and laws related to labor and the workplace because of the Progressive movement (e.g., child labor laws, safer working conditions, 8-hour workday), and argue their social and economic impactsSSHS.USII.2.1.c

Analyze changes in the relationship between producers and consumers during the Progressive Era (e.g., Pure Food and Drug Act, Federal Meat Inspection Act), and argue their social and economic impactsSSHS.USII.2.1.d

Analyze events from the Progressive Era, and argue the impact they had on the lives of individuals and different groups in society (e.g., changes to the education system, development of parks and playgrounds, expansion of LGBTQIA+ communities)SSHS.USII.2.1.e

Identify the backgrounds, and analyze the perspectives of civil rights leaders during the Progressive Era (e.g., George Washington Carver and the Atlanta Compromise speech, W.E.B. Du Bois and "double consciousness," Ida B. Wells and anti-lynching), and argue the impacts of the role(s) they fulfilledSSHS.USII.2.2.a

Analyze the ways in which Progressive civil rights leaders used their power to bring about change (e.g., Tuskegee Institute, Anti-Lynching Campaign, Niagara Movement and National Association for Advancement of Colored People, National Urban League), and argue their effectivenessSSHS.USII.2.2.b

Analyze the ways white Americans responded to the civil rights movement (e.g., rise of the KKK, Plessy v. Ferguson 1896, Red Summer 1919, Tulsa Race Massacre 1921), and argue how those responses impacted the movementSSHS.USII.2.2.c

Analyze the legacies of the woman suffrage movement before the Civil War, and argue its impact on the road to suffrageSSHS.USII.2.3.a

Identify the backgrounds, analyze the perspectives of people and organizations for and against woman suffrage (e.g., Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, National Woman's Party, Woman's Anti-Suffrage Association, National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage), and argue the impacts of the role(s) they playedSSHS.USII.2.3.b

Analyze the strategies suffragists used to gain woman suffrage (e.g., pamphlets, protests, conventions), and argue their impactsSSHS.USII.2.3.c

Identify the states that began to extend suffrage to women (e.g., Illinois 1913, Rhode Island 1917), and argue the impacts of ratification of the 19th AmendmentSSHS.USII.2.3.d

Explain why some women were left out of suffrage despite the 19th Amendment (e.g., Indigenous people were not considered citizens until 1924; gerrymandering, poll taxes, and voting exams prevented many Americans of color from voting until the Voting Rights Act of 1965)SSHS.USII.2.3.e

Explain the rationale for and analyze the conditions leading to World War I (e.g., expansionism, nationalism, alliances)SSHS.USII.2.4.a

Analyze the response by Americans and the U.S. government to the genocide of Armenians during this time, and argue the lasting impacts to the people and communities involvedSSHS.USII.2.4.b

Explain the rationale for and analyze the conditions leading to the U.S. involvement in World War I (e.g., submarine attacks on merchant ships, sinking of the Lusitania, Zimmerman Telegram)SSHS.USII.2.4.c

Analyze differing perspectives about America's involvement in World War I, and argue the impacts of those perspectivesSSHS.USII.2.4.d

Analyze the efficacy of federal powers to mobilize for war (e.g., regulating the economy, selective service), and argue the impact these actions hadSSHS.USII.2.5.a

Analyze ways people were impacted by America's involvement in WWI (e.g., home effort, extreme nativism, racial backlash against Black servicemen) and how they and the federal government responded (e.g., draft administration, Espionage and Sedition Acts)SSHS.USII.2.5.b

Analyze the efficacy of methods the U.S. used to fund the war (e.g., Liberty Bonds, War Revenue Acts), and argue the impacts these methods had on individuals and groupsSSHS.USII.2.5.c

Explain the rationale for and analyze the attempts to corral public opinion (e.g., Committee on Public Information, Schenck v. United States), and argue the impacts of those attemptsSSHS.USII.2.5.d

Explain the components of Wilson's idea of national self-determinationSSHS.USII.2.6.a

Analyze the arguments for and against the U.S. joining the League of Nations, and argue how different groups of people were impacted both short- and long-term after joiningSSHS.USII.2.6.b

Analyze how World War I changed America's global standing in the world and the ways America respondedSSHS.USII.2.6.c

Analyze the changes World War I had on American global policySSHS.USII.2.6.d

Analyze the rationale for and argue the implications of the U.S.'s position of isolationism and protectionismSSHS.USII.2.6.e

Analyze the global economic impact of the World War ISSHS.USII.2.6.f

Explain the reasons individuals and groups migrated to more populated areas during the 1920s (e.g., technological advances such as plumbing, sewers, and electricity)SSHS.USII.3.1.a

Analyze ways that municipalities responded to the influx of individuals and groups, and argue the impact these approaches hadSSHS.USII.3.1.b

Explain the differences and shifts in political, social, and/or cultural values during the 1920s, and analyze the impact these shifts had on society (e.g., Scopes Trial, flappers, Prohibition)SSHS.USII.3.1.c

Analyze varying perspectives on immigration and diversity during the 1920s (e.g., Red Scare, Ku Klux Klan, Sacco and Vanzetti trial, Asian Exclusion Act, National Origins Quota Act), and argue the impacts on societySSHS.USII.3.1.d

Analyze the range of lived experiences of Black Americans during the 1920s (e.g., Great Migration, Pan-Africanism, "New Negro" movement)SSHS.USII.3.1.e

Analyze the characteristics and identify leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance (e.g., Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes), and argue how the movement impacted society in New York City and beyondSSHS.USII.3.1.f

Analyze the ways World War I affected farmers and agriculture in AmericaSSHS.USII.3.2.a

Analyze the burdens that existed for people when they lost employment (e.g., no unemployment pay, low percentage of married women in the workforce, business policies such as "last hired, first fired"), and argue how different groups were impactedSSHS.USII.3.2.b

Explain the system of credit in the early 20th century, analyze its impact on Americans, and argue who benefited from this systemSSHS.USII.3.2.c

Analyze how the stock market operated in the 1920s and factors that contributed to the stock market crash of 1929 (e.g., buying on margin, excess bank loans)SSHS.USII.3.2.d

Argue the impacts of the Great Depression, and the ways individuals and groups responded (e.g., Hoovervilles, Bonus Army, westward migration due to the Dust Bowl)SSHS.USII.3.2.e

Analyze the political ideologies related to addressing the Great DepressionSSHS.USII.3.2.f

Analyze the ways that the federal government responded to the Great Depression (e.g., National Credit Corporation, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Federal Home Loan Bank Act, Emergency Relief and Construction Act), and argue the extent to which responses were successful and for whomSSHS.USII.3.2.g

Explain the rationale for, and analyze the actions taken during the first New Deal (e.g., First Hundred Days, Emergency Banking Act)SSHS.USII.3.3.a

Analyze the reactions to the First Hundred Days (e.g., popular responses, Supreme Court challenges)SSHS.USII.3.3.b

Explain the rationale for, and analyze the actions taken during the second New Deal (e.g., Social Security, the National Labor Relations Act)SSHS.USII.3.3.c

Analyze the reactions to the second New Deal (e.g., policy changes, political shifts, Southern Tenant Farmers Union), and argue the short- and long-term social and economic impactsSSHS.USII.3.3.d

Explain the rationale for, and analyze the policies related to isolationism and internationalism in the United States (e.g., London Conference of 1933, Good Neighbor policy, Neutrality Acts, Lend-Lease Act), and argue how those policies affected societySSHS.USII.4.1.a

Analyze the impact of factors leading to WWII (e.g., Treaty of Versailles, failure of appeasement, rise of fascism in Germany, Italy, and Japan)SSHS.USII.4.1.b

Analyze the ideologies and conditions leading to the Nazi racial stateSSHS.USII.4.1.c

Explain the conditions of and factors leading to the United States entering WWII (e.g., Pearl Harbor, German militarism)SSHS.USII.4.1.d

Analyze demographic changes in the United States during World War IISSHS.USII.4.2.a

Explain ways individuals and groups responded to the impacts of World War IISSHS.USII.4.2.b

Analyze ways labor needs were addressed during World War II (e.g., Bracero Program, more women joining the workforce)SSHS.USII.4.2.c

Analyze the status of Black Americans in society during World War II, and argue what conditions led to the Double V campaignSSHS.USII.4.2.d

Analyze the rationale for Japanese internment policies World War II, and argue the short- and long-term impacts of those policies on Japanese communitiesSSHS.USII.4.2.e

Explain the conditions of and actions taken by the U.S. military in Asia and Europe during World War IISSHS.USII.4.3.a

Explain the milestones and events of U.S. involvement in Asia during World War II (e.g., Battle of Midway, atomic bomb on Hiroshima), and argue the impact of that involvementSSHS.USII.4.3.b

Explain the milestones and events, of U.S. involvement in Europe during World War II (e.g., Battle of the Bulge, liberation of concentration camps, V-E Day), and argue the impact of that involvementSSHS.USII.4.3.c

Analyze the experiences of U.S. soldiers from different cultures and backgrounds during World War II (e.g., Navajo Code Talkers, Filipino soldiers, Tuskegee Airmen, 442nd Regimental Combat team), and argue the impacts of the war on soldiersSSHS.USII.4.3.d

Identify the characteristics of, and analyze the factors that gave rise to Nazi racial ideologySSHS.USII.4.4.a

Explain the events, and analyze the ideologies that led to the HolocaustSSHS.USII.4.4.b

Analyze the responses to Nazi expansionism and the Holocaust across Europe and the U.S. government, and argue the lasting impacts to the people and communities involvedSSHS.USII.4.4.c

Analyze the experiences of Soviets during World War II, and argue how those experiences impacted later policySSHS.USII.5.1.a

Analyze the differences between American and Soviet goals and actions after World War IISSHS.USII.5.1.b

Argue how the atomic bomb impacted American and Soviet relationships, policies, and actionsSSHS.USII.5.1.c

Analyze the reactions to the aftermath of World War II (e.g., United Nations, Warsaw Pact, NATO)SSHS.USII.5.1.d

Explain the rationale for and actions taken in U.S. foreign policy (e.g., domino theory, creation of the National Security Council 1947)SSHS.USII.5.2.a

Analyze U.S. foreign policy in reaction to the rise of communism (e.g., "cold war," Korean conflict, arms race), and argue the impact of those policiesSSHS.USII.5.2.b

Analyze the ways the Cold War influenced domestic policies in the United States (e.g., Federal Loyalty Oath, "lavender scares," HUAC, rise of McCarthyism, domestic containment), and argue the impact of those policiesSSHS.USII.5.2.c

Analyze the ways the Cold War influenced domestic culture (e.g., "atomic culture," depictions in art, movies, literature)SSHS.USII.5.2.d

Analyze the ideas, beliefs, and tensions that defined society in the United States during the Cold War years (e.g., generational conflicts, juvenile delinquency, conformity), identify individuals and groups involved (e.g., Beat writers such as Kerouac, Ginsberg, Kaufman, and Cassady), and argue how these cultural shifts impacted the lives of peopleSSHS.USII.5.2.e

Identify the defining characteristics of, and analyze the key differences between the war economy during WWII and the consumer economy that followed, and argue the impacts on middle-class lifeSSHS.USII.5.3.a

Analyze the characteristics of suburbanization in the 1940s and the factors influencing this movement, including federal and local policies (e.g., William Levitt Towns, redlining, white flight)SSHS.USII.5.3.b

Argue the impacts mass migration to the suburbs had on different groups (e.g., isolation of women, northern segregation, voting patterns)SSHS.USII.5.3.c

Analyze the influences of the Baby Boom on individuals and different groupsSSHS.USII.5.3.d

Explain the rationale for, and analyze the actions taken by the United States during the Cold War (e.g., Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine), and argue the impacts of those policies and actionsSSHS.USII.5.4.a

Analyze U.S. and Soviet actions in African, Asia, and South America, and argue the impacts of those actionsSSHS.USII.5.4.b

Analyze the conditions, and argue the impacts of proxy wars (e.g., decolonization efforts, Cuban missile crisis) on those involvedSSHS.USII.5.4.c

Analyze the responses of Truman and Eisenhower to increasing civil rights concerns following World War II (e.g., Executive Order 9981, appointment of Herbert Brownell to Attorney General and Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)SSHS.USII.6.1.a

Explain the rationale for, and analyze the actions taken by the NAACP and other groups toward segregation policies and actionsSSHS.USII.6.1.b

Argue the impacts and legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education caseSSHS.USII.6.1.c

Analyze the types of racial segregation and racial oppression in the United States leading up to the Civil Rights Act, and argue the impacts on individuals and groups, particularly Black AmericansSSHS.USII.6.1.d

Analyze goals, strategies, and tactics of leading Civil Rights opponents during the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., the murders of Emmett Till, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman, the Reverse Freedom Rides, violence to churches and communities, Bloody Sunday), and argue how they affected the movementSSHS.USII.6.1.e

Explain the experiences of Black Americans through time, including in Northern states such as Rhode Island (e.g., George T. Downing, Elleanor Eldridge, Snowtown and Hardscrabble, fair housing, fair employment)SSHS.USII.6.1.f

Identify the people (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Jr., Jo Ann Robinson, Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer), analyze the actions (e.g., Greensboro sit-ins 1960, Freedom Rides 1961, Freedom Summer 1964, freedom schools) of civil rights leaders and organizations during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and argue how they impacted the movementSSHS.USII.6.2.a

Analyze the similarities and differences among goals of civil rights leaders (e.g., Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Black Panthers), and argue the ways their different approaches impacted the movementSSHS.USII.6.2.b

Argue the impacts of organizations and groups that supported the Civil Rights Movement (e.g., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference)SSHS.USII.6.2.c

Analyze the contributions of individuals and groups in Rhode Island during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s (e.g., Irving J. Fain, Providence Urban League, Citizens United for a Fair Housing Law), and argue how they impacted the movement in Rhode Island and beyondSSHS.USII.6.2.d

Explain the rationale for, analyze the elements of, and argue the short- and long-term impacts of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965SSHS.USII.6.2.e

Analyze the factors contributing to civil rights movements in the 1960s and 70sSSHS.USII.6.3.a

Explain the characteristics, and analyze the perspectives of the civil rights movements in the 1960s and 1970s (e.g., Black Power movement, Women's Liberation movement, Gay liberation movement, identify power movements)SSHS.USII.6.3.b

Explain the ways that the civil rights movements challenged mainstream systems and beliefsSSHS.USII.6.3.c

Argue the impacts of the civil rights movements in the 1960s and 1970s on societySSHS.USII.6.3.d

Explain the rationale for, and analyze the actions taken by conservative leaders and groups in response to the liberation and identify power movements (e.g., Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, New Right), and argue the impacts of those actionsSSHS.USII.6.3.e

Analyze President John F. Kennedy's foreign and domestic policy agendas (e.g., Peace Corps, war in Vietnam, civil rights), and argue the impacts on American societySSHS.USII.7.1.a

Analyze the events leading to, and argue the impact of the Cuban Missile Crisis on American society and relations with the SovietsSSHS.USII.7.1.b

Explain how the assassination of John F. Kennedy led to the passage of the 25th AmendmentSSHS.USII.7.1.c

Analyze President Lyndon B. Johnson's foreign and domestic policy agendas (e.g., war in Vietnam, Great Society programs), and argue the impacts on American societySSHS.USII.7.1.d

Analyze the rationale for, and argue the impact of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 on American lifeSSHS.USII.7.1.e

Explain the rationale for, and analyze the conditions of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War (e.g., troop build-up, Gulf of Tonkin incident, Tet Offensive)SSHS.USII.7.2.a

Analyze the range of domestic responses to United States' involvement in the Vietnam War (e.g., student protests, anti-war and pro-war marches, cultural reactions to the war), and argue their impacts on American societySSHS.USII.7.2.b

Argue the short- and long-term impacts of the Vietnam War on Americans and returning soldiersSSHS.USII.7.2.c

Analyze the factors contributing to, and argue the impacts of the Great Inflation and energy crisis of the 1960s and 70s (e.g., U.S. foreign policy in Western Asia (Middle East), OPEC, gasoline prices) on American societySSHS.USII.7.3.a

Explain the relationship between unemployment and the economySSHS.USII.7.3.b

Analyze the rationale for, and argue the impact of state and federal measures to protect the environment (e.g., Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act) on American societySSHS.USII.7.3.c

Analyze President Richard Nixon's foreign and domestic policy agendas (e.g., end of Vietnam War, opening of relations with China, detente with the Soviet Union), and argue the impacts on American society and relations with the SovietsSSHS.USII.7.4.a

Analyze the events, and argue the impact of the Watergate break-in on American society (e.g., Congressional hearings, Nixon's resignation, Ford's pardon of Nixon)SSHS.USII.7.4.b