Social Studies (Grades 5–12) Subtest 1

Subarea III. U.S. and Minnesota History

0009

Understand major developments in early U.S. history from the precontact period to 1789.

demonstrating knowledge of indigenous cultures in North America prior to and during European exploration (e.g., language groups; the role of oral tradition in the perpetuation of American Indian culture; processes of achieving harmony and balance with nature; American Indian value systems; regional variations in American Indian agriculture, shelter forms, political organization, and religion)
examining European exploration and colonization in the Americas and analyzing the cultural and ecological interactions between Europeans and indigenous peoples
demonstrating knowledge of factors that shaped the evolution of colonial North America, including reasons for migration and similarities and differences between the New England, mid-Atlantic, and southern colonies
analyzing the social, political, and economic development of the English colonies and North America, including the influence of the Triangular Trade, the emergence of representative government, relations with Great Britain, and the establishment of slave labor systems in North America and the Caribbean
demonstrating understanding of major causes, leading figures, critical events, and significant consequences of the American Revolution
examining the establishment of the American government and nation during and after the Revolution (e.g., arguments over the Articles of Confederation, the creation of state constitutions, differences between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, major debates and compromises of the Constitutional Convention)
recognizing chronological relationships between major events and developments in U.S. history during this period

0010

Understand major developments in U.S. history from 1789 to 1877.

demonstrating knowledge of major political and constitutional developments of the period, including the extension, restriction, and reorganization of political democracy after 1800 (e.g., the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, John Marshall and the Supreme Court, the emergence of the Second Party System, suffrage expansion and the rise of Jacksonian democracy, restrictions on free African Americans)
analyzing events and developments related to territorial expansion (e.g., economic motives and ideological justifications for expansion, early explorers and the fur trade in Minnesota, major territorial acquisitions) and the effect of territorial expansion on American Indian nations
examining foreign conflicts and foreign relations during the early republic, including the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, and the causes and consequences of the Mexican War
demonstrating knowledge of economic development, immigration, demographic growth, and technological innovation between 1789 and 1877
demonstrating understanding of the origins and activities of major antebellum reform movements and the achievements of key reformers
demonstrating knowledge of the emergence of a distinctive African American culture, the effect of slavery in the United States, and major developments of the 1850s contributing to the sectional polarization that resulted in the Civil War (e.g., the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the southern secession movement)
demonstrating understanding of critical events, leading figures, and significant consequences of the Civil War
demonstrating knowledge of the controversies, debates, and outcomes of the Reconstruction period (e.g., alternative programs for Reconstruction, the Civil War era constitutional amendments and the redefinition of freedom and citizenship, the successes and failures of radical state governments in the South, southern white resistance to Reconstruction)
recognizing chronological relationships between major events and developments in U.S. history during this period

0011

Understand major developments in U.S. history from 1877 to 1929.

analyzing the process of westward expansion during the late nineteenth century (e.g., the mining, ranching, and farming frontiers; the effect of technological developments on westward expansion; factors influencing the rapid settlement of Minnesota; the effect of expanding settlement on American Indian nations, including the Anishinabe and Dakota peoples of Minnesota)
demonstrating knowledge of the causes and consequences of immigration to the United States between 1870 and World War I
analyzing the processes of industrialization and urbanization and examining the effects of industrialization on the economic, social, and political life of the United States
identifying changing patterns of European immigration to the United States between 1877 and 1914 and evaluating the effect of new immigrant groups on the society and culture of the United States
demonstrating knowledge of the origins of racial segregation and the efforts of African Americans to overcome the social, economic, and political obstacles that confronted them (e.g., the enactment of Jim Crow laws; African American disfranchisement; the rise of "scientific racism"; Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and debates among African Americans about how best to achieve racial equality)
demonstrating knowledge of the causes, major events, and consequences of U.S. imperialism, including U.S. intervention in Asia and Latin America, the Spanish-American War, and key issues in the debate over U.S. expansionism
analyzing the changing dynamics of U.S. politics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the origins, goals, strategies, and influence of the Populist and Progressive movements
demonstrating knowledge of the causes and consequences of U.S. participation in World War I
examining how the United States changed politically, culturally, and economically from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression (e.g., developments in transportation, communication, and industry; the Red Scare; Prohibition; the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan; immigration restriction legislation; the Harlem Renaissance; the Lost Generation; changes in urban mass culture)
recognizing chronological relationships between major events and developments in U.S. history during this period

0012

Understand major developments in U.S. history from 1929 to the present.

demonstrating knowledge of the causes of the Great Depression and the responses of the Hoover administration and Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal to economic collapse and social dislocation
demonstrating knowledge of the origins of World War II, major events and developments of the war, and the war's effect on the United States and Minnesota
analyzing major social and economic developments in the United States since 1945 (e.g., suburbanization, the baby boom, the emergence of a youth culture, demographic shifts, the postwar economic boom, the construction of the interstate highway system, the rise of the Sunbelt, social and economic changes in Minnesota, deindustrialization and the shift toward a service economy, Reaganomics, the rise of the Internet culture)
recognizing the significance of the Immigration Act of 1965 and analyzing the effect of major demographic changes on U.S. social, economic, and political life
examining the causes, major events, and consequences of the Cold War and major developments in U.S. foreign policy during the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century (e.g., the doctrine of containment and the domino theory, atomic diplomacy, the Korean and Vietnam wars, the Cuban missile crisis, the policy of détente, the Camp David Accords, the Iran hostage crisis, the Persian Gulf War, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars)
analyzing major events, developments, debates, and issues in U.S. politics since 1945 (e.g., Truman's Fair Deal, Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism, Kennedy's New Frontier, Johnson's Great Society, the Warren Court, Watergate, the decline of liberalism and the rise of the conservative movement, the Clinton impeachment, important electoral contests of the period)
examining the aims, activities, strategies, prominent figures, and achievements of the struggle for African American equality
demonstrating knowledge of major social movements of the postwar period (e.g., the women's rights movement, the American Indian Movement, the Hispanic rights movement, the Free Speech Movement, the gay liberation movement, the consumer and environmental movements)
recognizing chronological relationships between major events and developments in U.S. history during this period

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