What does a student learn in StateTennessee,GradeGrade 4,SubjectSocial Studies?

Analyze the sectional differences between the North, South and the developing West, including:

Economic

Population

Social

Transportation

Explain how enslavement became a national conflict during the mid-19th century, including the significance of:

Missouri Compromise

Nat Turner's Rebellion

Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Dred Scott v. Sandford decision

John Brown’s Raid (on Harper’s Ferry)

Compare characteristics of the lives of enslaved persons on plantations, in cities, and on other farms.

Identify abolitionist leaders and their approaches to ending enslavement, including:

Frederick Douglass

William Lloyd Garrison

The Grimke Sisters

Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth

Compare and contrast the various sectional stances on states’ rights and enslavement represented by the presidential candidates in the election of 1860.

Evaluate the significance of the Battle of Fort Sumter and the impact it had on secession.

Explain the efforts of both the Union and the Confederacy to secure the border states for their causes.

Explain how the Union’s Anaconda Plan used geographic features to isolate and defeat regions of the South and the Confederacy as a whole.

Describe the roles of major leaders during the Civil War, including:

Jefferson Davis

Ulysses S. Grant

Robert E. Lee

Abraham Lincoln

Evaluate the significant contributions made by women during the Civil War (e.g., Clara Barton, Dorothea Dix, Susie King Taylor, Frances Clayton, Harriett Tubman, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker).

Examine the strategic significance and outcomes of key events of the Civil War (e.g., First Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Antietam, Siege of Vicksburg, and Battle of Gettysburg).

Explain the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation, and identify its impact on the country.

Describe the significance of the Gettysburg Address.

Describe the physical, social, political, and economic consequences of the Civil War on the United States after the surrender at Appomattox Court House.

Describe the impact President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination had on the nation.

Identify the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (i.e., Reconstruction Amendments) as efforts to help former enslaved persons gain the rights of citizenship.

Compare and contrast the goals of the Reconstruction plans of President Abraham Lincoln, President Andrew Johnson, and Congress.

Identify the impacts of the outcome of the Election of 1876, including (T.C.A. § 49-6-1028):

Compromise of 1877

Disenfranchisement

End of Military Reconstruction

Lack of African American elected officials

Jim Crow Laws

Rise of vigilante actions

Examine the appeal and challenges of settling the Great Plains from various cultural perspectives, including settlers, immigrants, Buffalo Soldiers, and American Indians.

Examine factors that encouraged development of the Great Plains, including the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, innovations (e.g., barbed wire, steel plow, and windmills) and the Homestead Acts.

Describe characteristics of the Second Industrial Revolution (e.g., industrial capitalists, monopolies, unsafe working conditions).

Explain the role of labor unions and the American Federation of Labor in changing the standards of working conditions.

Examine the impact of important entrepreneurs on American society during the Gilded Age (e.g., Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Madam C. J. Walker.)

Examine the contributions and impact of inventors (e.g., Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver, and Thomas Edison, Eliza Murfey) on American society.

Describe the challenges for successful entry into the United States through Ellis Island and Angel Island, and examine the role of immigrants in the development of the United States.

Analyze the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish-American War, including (T.C.A. § 49-6- 1028):

Buffalo Soldiers

Imperialism

Rough Riders

USS Maine

Yellow journalism

Analyze the major goals, struggles, and achievements of the Progressive Era, including Prohibition (i.e., 18th Amendment), women’s suffrage (i.e., 19th Amendment), and child labor.

Summarize the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I, including the attack on the RMS Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram.

Identify and locate on a map the major countries of the Central and Allied Powers during World War I, including:

Austria-Hungary

France

Germany

Great Britain

Russia

Describe the impact of U.S. involvement as an Allied Power in World War I.

Explain the aims of world leaders in the Treaty of Versailles, and why the U.S. Senate rejected President Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations.

Examine the growth of popular culture during the “Roaring Twenties” with respect to the following:

Music, clothing, and entertainment

Automobiles and appliances

Harlem Renaissance (T.C.A. § 49-6-1028)

Describe how scarcity, supply, and demand affect the prices of products.

Identify the causes of the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover’s role, and its impact on the nation, including:

Consumer credit and debt

Hoovervilles

Mass unemployment

Overproduction

Soup kitchens

Describe how the New Deal policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt impacted American society with government-funded programs, including Social Security, protection of banks, expansion and development of the national parks, and creation of jobs.

Explain the structures and goals of the governments in Germany and Japan during the 1930s, and how they contributed to the outbreak of World War II.

Identify and locate on a map the Axis and Allied Powers associated with World War II, including:

Germany

Italy

Japan

France

Great Britain

Soviet Union

Determine the significance of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and its impact on the United States.

Examine the reasons for the use of propaganda, rationing, and victory gardens during World War II.

Analyze the significance of the Holocaust and its impact on the United States (e.g., the creation of the of the State of Israel by the United Nations and the migration of Jewish individuals).

Examine the growth of the United States as a consumer and entertainment society after World War II, including:

Growth of the suburbs

Increased access to automobiles

Interstate Highway System

Television, radio, and movie theaters

Analyze the key people and events of the Civil Rights Movement, including (T.C.A. § 49-6- 1028):

Martin Luther King Jr. and non-violent protests

Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Brown v. Board of Education and Thurgood Marshall

Freedom Riders and Diane Nash

Explain the effects of the Civil Rights Movement, including the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.