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National Standards
for History
Grades K-4
- Topic 1: Living
and working together in families and communities, now and long
ago
Standard 1: The student
understands family life now and in the recent past; family life
in various places long ago.
1A: The student
understands family life now and in the recent past; family
life in various places long ago.
1B: The student
understands the different ways people of diverse racial, religious,
and ethnic groups, and of various national origins have transmitted
their beliefs and values.
Standard 2: The history
of students’ own local community and how communities in North
America varied long ago.
2A: The student understands the history of his or her local
community
2B: The student understands how communities in North America
varied long ago.
Topic 2: The History
of Students’ Own State or Region
Standard 3:
The people, events, problems, and ideas that created the history
of their state.
3A: The student understands the history of indigenous peoples
who first lived in his or her state or region
3B: The student understands the history of the first European,
African, and/or Asian-Pacific explorers and settlers who came
to his or her state or region.
3C: The student understands the various other groups from
regions throughout the world who came into the his or her
own state or region over the long-ago and recent past.
3D: The student understands the interactions among all these
groups throughout the history of his or her state.
3E: The student understands the ideas that were significant
in the development of the state and that helped to forge its
unique identity.
Topic 3: The History
of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People
from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and
Political Heritage
Standard 4: How democratic values came to be, and how they have
been exemplified by people, events, and symbols.
4A: The student understands how the United States government
was formed and the nation’s basic democratic principles set
forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
4B: The student understands ordinary people who have exemplified
values and principles of American democracy.
4C: The student understands historic figures who have exemplified
values and principles of American democracy.
4D The student understands events that celebrate and exemplify
fundamental values and principles of American democracy.
4E The student understands national symbols through which
American values and principles are expressed.
Standard 5: The causes and nature of various movements of large
groups of people into and within the United States, now, and long
ago.
5A The student understands the movements of large groups of
people into his or her own and other states in the United States
now and long ago.
Standard 6: Regional
folklore and culture contributions that helped to form our national
heritage.
6A: The student
understands folklore and other cultural contributions from various
regions of the United States and how they help to form a national
heritage.
Topic 4: The History
of Peoples of Many Cultures Around the World
Standard 7: Selected
attributes and historical developments of various societies in
Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
7A: The student understands
the cultures and historical developments of selected societies
in such places as Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
7B: The student understands
great world movements of people now and long ago.
Standard 8: Major discoveries
in science and technology, their social and economic effects, and
the scientists and inventors responsible for them.
8A: The student understands
the development of technological innovations, the major scientists
and inventors associated with them and their social and economic
effects.
8B: The student understands
changes in transportation and their effects.
8C: The student understands
changes in communication and their effects.
Grades 5-12
- Era 1: Three Worlds
Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
Standard 1: Comparative
characteristics of societies in the Americas, Western Europe,
and Western Africa that increasingly interacted after 1450
1A: The student
understands the patterns of change in indigenous societies
in the Americas up to the Columbian voyages.
1B: The student
understands changes in Western European societies in the age
of exploration.
1C: The student
understands developments in Western African societies in the
period of early contact with Europeans.
1D: The student
understands the differences and similarities among Africans,
Europeans, and Native Americans who converged in the western
hemisphere after 1492.
Standard 2: How early
European exploration and colonization resulted in cultural and
ecological interactions among previously unconnected peoples.
2A: The student
understands the stages of European oceanic and overland exploration,
amid international rivalries, from the 9th to 17th centuries.
2B: The student
understands the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas.
Era 2: Early Civilizations
and the Emergence of Pastoral Peoples, 4000-1000 BCE
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Standard 1: The
major characteristics of civilization and how civilizations
emerged in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus valley
Standard 2: How
agrarian societies spread and new states emerged in the third
and second millennia BCE
Standard 3: The
political, social, and cultural consequences of population
movements and militarization in Eurasia in the second millennium
BCE
Standard 4: Major
trends in Eurasia and Africa from 4000-1000 BCE
Era 3: Classical Traditions,
Major Religions, and Giant Empires, 1000 BCE-300 CE
Standard 1: Innovation
and change from 1000-600 BCE: horses, ships, iron, and monotheistic
faith
Standard 2: The emergence
of Aegean civilization and how interrelations developed among
peoples of the eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia, 600-200
BCE
Standard 3: How major
religions and large-scale empires arose in the Mediterranean basin,
China, and India, 500 BCE-300 CE
Standard 4: The development
of early agrarian civilizations in Mesoamerica
Standard 5: Major global
trends from 1000 BCE-300
Era 4: Expanding Zones
of Exchange and Encounter, 300-1000 CE
Standard 1: Imperial
crises and their aftermath, 300-700 CE
Standard 2: Causes
and consequences of the rise of Islamic civilization in the 7th-10th
centuries
Standard 3: Major developments
in East Asia and Southeast Asia in the era of the Tang dynasty,
600-900 CE
Standard 4: The search
for political, social, and cultural redefinition in Europe, 500-1000
CE
Standard 5: The development
of agricultural societies and new states in tropical Africa and
Oceania
Standard 6: The rise
of centers of civilization in Mesoamerica and Andean South America
in the first millennium CE
Standard 7: Major global
trends from 300-1000 CE
Era 5: Intensified
Hemispheric Interactions 1000-1500 CE
Standard 1: The maturing
of an interregional system of communication, trade, and cultural
exchange in an era of Chinese economic power and Islamic expansion
Standard 2: The redefining
of European society and culture, 1000-1300 CE
Standard 3: The rise
of the Mongol empire and its consequences for Eurasian peoples,
1200-1350
Standard 4: The growth
of states, towns, and trade in Sub-Saharan Africa between the
11th and 15th centuries
Standard 5: Patterns
of crisis and recovery in Afro-Eurasia, 1300-1450
Standard 6: The expansion
of states and civilizations in the Americas, 1000-1500
Standard 7: Major global
trends from 1000-1500 CE
Era 6 The Emergence
of the First Global Age, 1450-1770
Standard 1: How the
transoceanic interlinking of all major regions of the world from
1450-1600 led to global transformations
Standard 2: How European
society experienced political, economic, and cultural transformations
in an age of global intercommunication, 1450-1750
Standard 3: How large
territorial empires dominated much of Eurasia between the 16th
and 18th centuries
Standard 4: Economic,
political, and cultural interrelations among peoples of Africa,
Europe, and the Americas, 1500-1750
Standard 5: Transformations
in Asian societies in the era of European expansion
Standard 6: Major global
trends from 1450-1770
Era 7 An Age of Revolutions,
1750-1914
Standard 1: The causes
and consequences of political revolutions in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries
Standard 2: The causes
and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions,
1700-1850
Standard 3: The transformation
of Eurasian societies in an era of global trade and rising European
power, 1750-1870
Standard 4: Patterns
of nationalism, state-building, and social reform in Europe and
the Americas, 1830-1914
Standard 5: Patterns
of global change in the era of Western military and economic domination,
1800-1914
Standard 6: Major global
trends from 1750-1914
Era 8 A Half-Century
of Crisis and Achievement 1900-1945
Standard 1: Reform,
revolution, and social change in the world economy of the early
century
Standard 2: The causes
and global consequences of World War I
Standard 3: The search
for peace and stability in the 1920s and 1930s
Standard 4: The causes
and global consequences of World War II
Standard 5: Major global
trends from 1900 to the end of World War II
Era 9 The 20th Century
Since 1945: Promises and Paradoxes
Standard 1: How post-World
War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations
took shape, and colonial empires broke up
Standard 2: The search
for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world
Standard 3: Major global
trends since World War II
World History Across
the Eras
Standard 1:
Long-term changes and recurring patterns in world history
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