Recent ActivityInstructor: Mr. Carrington
Welcome to 8th Grade Social Studies (American History)
Students continue their study of American History, begun in seventh grade, by examining the industrial growth in the North, the agricultural changes in the South, and the tensions that developed between the two. Next, they learn how ideas for improving traditional institutions sparked new social and artistic movements in the early to mid-1800s. They then move to a survey of the American push to expand the boundaries of the nation westward into boundaries outside the U.S. borders and the tensions that developed with Britain and the war with Mexico. Students learn about the growing sectional conflict that culminated in secession, the Civil War, and the attempt to rebuild the union during reconstruction. Later topics include the transformation of the United States into an urban industrial society, the dilemma of race, the changing role of women, World War I, the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, rising global involvement of the United States, the Civil Rights movement, the social and political turmoil of the 1960s, the dual crisis of Vietnam and Watergate, the Reagan revolution, and the issues of the contemporary world. An in-depth study of our Constitution is included in the course.
Students continue their study of American History, begun in seventh grade, by examining the industrial growth in the North, the agricultural changes in the South, and the tensions that developed between the two. Next, they learn how ideas for improving traditional institutions sparked new social and artistic movements in the early to mid-1800s. They then move to a survey of the American push to expand the boundaries of the nation westward into boundaries outside the U.S. borders and the tensions that developed with Britain and the war with Mexico. Students learn about the growing sectional conflict that culminated in secession, the Civil War, and the attempt to rebuild the union during reconstruction. Later topics include the transformation of the United States into an urban industrial society, the dilemma of race, the changing role of women, World War I, the Depression, World War II, the Cold War, rising global involvement of the United States, the Civil Rights movement, the social and political turmoil of the 1960s, the dual crisis of Vietnam and Watergate, the Reagan revolution, and the issues of the contemporary world. An in-depth study of our Constitution is included in the course.
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