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New Hampshire Frameworks Correlations
EyeWitness
Learn about history from the people who lived it. First
person accounts, images, and audio files of historical events ranging from an
account of the destruction of Pompeii by Pliny to Harry Truman's reflections
on being President help put a human face on our past.
Intended Audience: General Reading Level: High School Teacher Section: No Searchable: No
Social Studies: History
Curriculum Standard 16
Students will demonstrate the ability
to employ historical analysis, interpretation, and comprehension to make reasoned
judgments and to gain an understanding, perspective, and appreciation of history
and its uses in contemporary situations.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Construct and interpret parallel time lines on multiple themes.
- Group events by
broadly-defined eras in the history of the state, nation, or area under study.
- Analyze historical
documents, artifacts, and other materials for credibility, relevance, and point
of view.
Curriculum Standard 17
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significance of
the unfolding story of America including the history of their community, New
Hampshire, and the United States.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Demonstrate
an understanding of major topics in the study of the Colonial Era (1565-1776)
including characteristics of English colonies in North America; differences
among Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English colonies in the Americas; the
interaction of Native American, black, and colonial cultures; and the planting
and maturing of new societies.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the Revolutionary Era (1763-1787) including
the causes of the Revolution; the establishment of government through the Declaration
of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Continental Congress;
the Revolutionary War; the consequences of the Revolution; and the Northwest
Ordinance.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the Building of Our Nation (1783-1820) including
the formation of our national government through the creation and ratification
of the Constitution and Bill of Rights; conflicting views of Hamilton and Jefferson;
origins of the two-party system; impact of the French Revolution; developing
ideas of equality, independence, and civic virtue; the emerging role of presidential
leadership; the beginnings of judicial review; and the implications of the War
of 1812.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the Expanding Nation: The North and South (1803-1860)
including geographic and demographic expansion; market expansion; early industrialization
(Industrial Revolution); the plantation system; growth of cities; immigrants
and their experiences; political change; religious roots of reform movements;
and the legacies of the temperance, public education, abolitionist, and women's
rights movements.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the Expanding Nation: Westward Movement (1803-1860)
including the Louisiana Purchase; Indian policy and treaties; Manifest Destiny;
the significance of the War with Mexico; interactions of white and black Americans,
Native Americans, Asians, and Mexicans; and the economic, social, and political
impact of the West on the growing nation.
- Demonstrate an
understanding of major topics in the study of the Civil War and Reconstruction
(1850-1877) including the slave system in the Old South and its defenders and
opponents, North and South; causes of the war; conduct and course of the war;
Lincoln's leadership and words; the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth,
Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments; and the accomplishments, limits, and failures
of Reconstruction.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade twelve students will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of major topics in the study of the Second Industrial
Revolution (1865-1920) including technological developments; transformation
of the economy in the late-1800s; immigration; role of education; urbanization;
changes in work and the work-place; rise of labor unions; modernization of agriculture;
Populism; development of the trans-Mississippi West; widespread political corruption;
the civil service system; and mass politics.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the Progressive Era (1900-1914) including the
social justice movement; reform in the cities and states; Progressivism and
national politics; and the impact of World War I on the Progressive Movement.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the Emergence of the United States as a World
Power (1890-1920) including the Spanish American War; American expansion in
the far East and Latin America; the United States in World War I; effects of
the war on the homefront; and America's role in postwar peacemaking.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the 1920s: A Decade of Prosperity and Problems
(1920-1930) including economic changes and their ramifications; progress and
conflict in the social and cultural scene; domestic politics; and foreign relations.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of the Depression and the New Deal (1929-1941)
including the origins of the Great Depression and its effects on people and
society; the major approaches and programs of the New Deal; and the continuing
debate over the successes and failures of the New Deal.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major topics in the study of World War II and the Cold War (1939-1961) including
the causes, conduct, course, and aftermath of World War II; effects of the war
on the homefront; the emergence of the United States as a superpower; the origins
of the Cold War; and postwar political developments at home and abroad.
- Demonstrate an
understanding of major topics in the study of the Recent United States (1949-present)
including the Civil Rights and women's movements; new immigration policies;
foreign policy developments; the Cold War; post-World War II conflicts; technological
and economic change; expanding religious diversity and the growth of religious
evangelicalism; and the United States in the contemporary world.
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Curriculum Standard 18
Students will demonstrate a knowledge of the chronology and significant developments
of world history including the study of ancient, medieval, and modern Europe (Western
civilization) with particular emphasis on those developments that have shaped
the experience of the entire globe over the last 500 years and those ideas, institutions,
and cultural legacies that have directly influenced American thought, culture,
and politics.
Proficiency Standards
By the end of grade ten students will be able to:
- Discuss the political, philosophical, and cultural legacies of ancient Greece
and Rome.
- Compare the origin, central
ideas, institutions, and worldwide influence of major religious and philosophical
traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam,
and Judaism.
- Discuss the contributions
of Judaism and Christianity to the development of Western civilization.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major developments in Europe during the Middle Ages including nomadic invasions
from the Eurasian Steppes; interactions with the Muslim world; Byzantine Empire;
Black Death; and feudalism and the evolution of representative government.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of major developments in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries including
the Renaissance and the Reformation; the rise of the Ottoman Empire; the origins
of capitalism; and exploration and colonization.
- Discuss the significance
of the English Revolution of the 17th century including its political ideas
and the development of parliamentary government, at home and in the colonies.
- Discuss the evolution of
Western culture and ideas during the Enlightenment including the scientific
revolution of the 17th century and the intellectual revolution of the 18th century.
- Discuss the causes, results,
and influence on the rest of the world of the American and French Revolutions.
- Discuss the impact of the
Industrial Revolution on the world including its social and economic consequences
and its effect on politics and culture.
- Discuss the origins, political
ideas, and worldwide effects on society, politics, and economics of the European
ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries including Conservatism, Liberalism,
republicanism, social democracy, Marxism, Communism, Fascism, Nazism, and nationalism.
- Discuss the nature and growth
of European imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as decolonization
in the 20th century including the consequences of both in Europe and their effects
in Africa, India, East Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.
- Demonstrate an understanding
of the causes and worldwide consequences of World War I, the Russian Revolutions,
World War II, the Chinese Revolution, the Cold War, and post-World War II conflicts.
- Discuss the significance
of major cultural, economic, and political developments in the 20th century
including the development and internationalization of art, music, and literature;
the worldwide quest for democracy, political freedom, and human rights; the
making of the European community of nations; the growth of international trade;
and new approaches to worldwide cooperation and interdependence.
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