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Connections to Rhode Island’s

A Standards-Based Guide for Social Studies Programs in

Rhode Island Schools

 

 

National Standards for History (Basic Edition)

 

 

National Standards for History grades K - 4-

 

 

 Standard 1-

            Family life now and in the recent past; family life in various places long ago

 

Standard 2-

           History of students’ local community and how communities in North America varied

           long ago

 

Standard 3-

         The people, events, problems, and ideas that created history of their state

 

Standard 4-

         How Democratic values came to be, and how they have been exemplified by people,

         events, and symbols

 

Standard 5-

         The causes and nature of various movements of large groups of people into and within

         the United States, now and long ago

 

Standard 6-

         Regional folklore and cultural contributions that helped to form our National Heritage

        

 

Standard 8-

         Major discoveries in Science and Technology, their social and economic effects and the

         Scientists and Inventors responsible for them

 

 

 

United States History Standards for Grades 5 - 12

 

 

 

Era 4:  Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861)

 

 

Standard 2-

How the industrial revolution, increasing immigration, the rapid expansion of slavery, and the westward movement changed the lives of Americans and led toward regional tensions.

 

 

 

Era 6:  The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900)

 

Standard 1-

         How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the

         American people

 

Standard 2-

         Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts and ideas of

         national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.

 

Standard 3-

         The rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and

         economic changes.

 

 

Era 7:  The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

 

Standard 3-

         How the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great

         Depression.

 

Era 8:   The Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

 

Standard 1-    

The causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American Society.

 

Standard 2-

How the new Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state.