Standards

 1.2 Students use chronology to organize historical events and people.

1.3 Students use chronology to examine and explain historical relationships.

2.1 Students know how to formulate questions and hypotheses regarding what happened in the past and to obtain and analyze historical data to answer questions and test hypotheses.

2.2 Students know how to interpret and evaluate primary and secondary sources of historical information.

2.3 Students apply knowledge of the past to analyze present-day issues and events from multiple, historically objective perspectives.

3.1 Students know how various societies were affected by contacts and exchanges among diverse peoples.

4.1 Students understand the impact of scientific and technological developments on individuals and societies.

4.2 Students understand how economic factors have influenced historical events.

5.1 Students understand how democratic ideas and institutions in the United States have developed, changed, and/or been maintained.

5.3 Students know how political power has been acquired, maintained, used, and/or lost throughout history.