6.H.CH.1 Describe how River Valley Civilizations transitioned to empires between 3500 BCE600 CE.
6.H.CH.2 Compare the origins and development of early world religions from River Valley Civilizations to Classical Empires 3500 BCE-600 CE.
Cause and Effect
6.H.CE.1 Analyze the causes and effects of the rise of River Valley Civilizations.
Conflict and Compromise
6.H.CO.1 Explain the role conflict played in the development and expansion of Classical Empires between 3500 BCE-600 CE. •
6.H.CO.2 Analyze the impact trade networks had on interactions among various human societies between 3500 BCE-600 CE.
Kentucky History
6.H.KH.1 Determine the influences of Classical Greece and Rome on the structures of Kentucky’s state government.
7th Grade Standards
Change and Continuity
7.H.CH.1 Indicate changes resulting from increased interactions and connections between Afro-Eurasia and the Americas between 1450-1600.
Cause and Effect
7.H.CE.1 Analyze the causes and effects of the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment.
7.H.CE.2 Evaluate the political, geographic, economic and social impact of the expansion of empires between 600-1600.
Conflict and Compromise
7.H.CO.1 Explain how religion influenced state-building, trade and cultural interactions between 600-1600.
7.H.CO.2 Evaluate various motives for expansion among multiple empires between 6001600.
8th Grade Standards
Change and Continuity
8.H.CH.1 Explain the role changing political, social and economic perspectives had on the lives of diverse groups of people in the Colonial Era.
8.H.CH.2 Analyze how social and ideological philosophies impacted various movements in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.H.CH.3 Explain how political, social and economic perspectives in the United States led to the rise in sectionalism between 1840-1860.
8.H.CH.4 Evaluate the impact technological innovations made on agriculture, trade and commerce in the years leading up to the Civil War between 1840-1860.
8.H.CH.5 Explain examples of political, geographic, social and economic changes and consistencies in the different regions of the United States between 1860-1877.
Cause and Effect
8.H.CE.1 Analyze how the political, geographic, social and economic choices of the Colonial Era impacted the Revolutionary Period and Early Republic Period.
8.H.CE.2 Analyze the cause and effect of Westward Expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction on the diverse populations of the United States.
Conflict and Compromise
8.H.CO.1 Explain how colonial resistance to British control led to the Revolutionary War.
8.H.CO.2 Describe the conflicts and compromises that shaped the development of the U.S. government between 1783-1877. •
8.H.CO.3 Analyze how economic, social, ideological and political changes led to sectional and national tensions, inspiring reform movements between 1840-1860.
8.H.CO.4 Explain how sectionalism and slavery within the United States led to conflicts between 1820-1877.
Kentucky History
8.H.KH.1 Articulate Kentucky’s role in early American history from the earliest colonial settlement to 1877.
8.H.KH.2 Examine patterns of collaboration and conflict between immigrants to Kentucky and those already in residence from 1775 to 1877.
All standards are taken from Kentucky Department of Education: Course Standards for 2019-2020 and Beyond