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Muskingum Valley ESC Standards-Based Social Studies Course of Study
GRADE 8
THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE UNIT
LEARNING TARGETS
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS:
1. Cultural groups are driven to interact and influence other cultural groups.
2. Religion has impacted the pattern of settlements.
3. The Native Americans had a great impact on the colonization of North America by being here first.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
1. a. What drove the different nations in their quest for colonization?
b. What were examples of positive and negative relationships between different cultural groups?
2. a. Why did a variety of religious groups exist throughout the American colonies?
b. What caused people to be so passionate about their religious beliefs?
3. a. How was the “way of life” of the Native Americans so different from the Europeans?
b. Why couldn’t the Native Americans and Europeans get along?
Benchmarks
History A:
Interpret relationships
between events shown
on multiple-tier time
lines.
History D:
Describe the effects of
interactions among
civilizations during the
14th through the 18th
centuries.
Grade Level Indicators and Sub-Indicators
a.8.1 Select events and construct a multiple-tier time line to show
relationships among events.
a.8.2 Describe the political, religious and economic aspects of North
American colonization, including: reasons for colonization,
including religion, desire for land and economic opportunity; key
differences among the Spanish, French and British colonies;
interactions between American Indians and European settlers,
including the agricultural and cultural exchanges, alliances and
conflicts; indentured servitude and the introduction and
institutionalization of slavery; early representative governments
and democratic practices that emerged, including town meetings
and colonial assemblies; conflicts among colonial powers for
control of North America.
Key Vocabulary
Resources
mercantilism
colonization
immigration
industrialization
indentured servant
slavery
assemblies
economic
political
colonial powers
European settlers
representative
governments
westward expansion
American Indians
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Geography C:
Explain how the
environment influences
the way people live in
different places and the
consequences of
modifying the
environment.
c.8.2 Analyze how physical characteristics of the environment
influenced population distribution, settlement patterns and
economic activities in the United States during the 18th and 19th
centuries.
c.8.3 Explain how colonization, westward expansion, immigration
and advances in transportation and communication changed
geographic patterns in the United States.
Geography D:
Explain reasons that
people, products and
ideas move from place to
place and the effects of
that movement on
geographic patterns.
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People in Societies B:
Analyze examples of
interactions between
cultural groups and
explain the factors that
contribute to
cooperation and conflict.
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b.8.1 Trace the development of religious diversity in the colonies,
and analyze how the concept of religious freedom has evolved in the
United States.
Indian removal
population
distribution
treaties
multi-tiered time line
African-Americans
agriculture and
cultural exchanges
religious diversity
global trading
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b.8.3 Analyze how contact between white settlers and American
Indians resulted in treaties, land acquisition and Indian removal.
b.8.4 Analyze the economic, geographic, religious and political
factors that contributed to: the enslavement of Africans in North
America; resistance to slavery.
c.8.1 Compare places and regions in the United States as they existed
prior to 1877 with the same places and regions today to analyze
changes in land use and population, political, social and economic
characteristics.
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Economics B:
Explain why trade occurs
and how historical
patterns of trade have
contributed to global
interdependence.
d.8.2 Discuss how mercantilism and the establishment of colonies led
to increased global trading during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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