Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part CXXI - Bulletin 1964-Louisiana Content Standards, Benchmarks, and Grade Level Expectations for Social Studies
Chapter 19 - Grade 8-The United States and Louisiana: Industrial Age through the Modern Era
Section CXXI-1903 - Standards
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code CXXI-1903
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Explain ideas, events, and developments in the history of the United States of America from 1877 to 2008 and how they progressed, changed, or remained the same over time.
B. Analyze connections between events and developments in U.S. history within their global context from 1877 to 2008.
C. Compare and contrast events and developments in U.S. history from 1877 to 2008.
D. Use geographic representations and historical data to analyze events and developments in U.S. history from 1877 to 2008, including environmental, cultural, economic, and political characteristics and changes.
E. Use maps to identify absolute location (latitude, and longitude) and describe geographical characteristics of places in Louisiana, North America, and the world.
F. Use a variety of primary and secondary sources to:
1. analyze social
studies content;
2. evaluate
claims, counterclaims, and evidence;
3. compare and contrast multiple sources and
accounts;
4. explain how the
availability of sources affects historical interpretations.
G. Construct and express claims that are supported with relevant evidence from primary and/or secondary sources, social studies content knowledge, and clear reasoning and explanations to:
1. demonstrate an understanding of social
studies content;
2. compare and
contrast content and viewpoints;
3.
analyze causes and effects;
4.
evaluate counterclaims.
H. Analyze the causes and effects of technological and industrial advances during the late nineteenth century and the early 20th century.
1. Analyze factors
that contributed to and effects of the growth of the industrial economy,
including capitalism and the growth of free markets, mass production,
agricultural advancements, the government's laissez-faire economic policy, and
the rise of corporations.
2.
Explain the social and economic effects of innovations in technology,
transportation, and communication during the late 1800s and early 1900s,
including the expansion of railroads, electricity, and telephone.
3. Explain how industrialists and
corporations revolutionized business and influenced the U.S. economy and
society, with an emphasis on business practices (vertical and horizontal
integration, formation of monopolies/trusts), development of major industries
(oil, steel, railroad, banking), and the role of entrepreneurs, including
Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
Madam C.J. Walker.
I. Analyze the social, political, and economic changes that developed in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
1. Explain how industrialization influenced
the movement of people from rural to urban areas and the effects of
urbanization.
2. Explain the causes
and effects of immigration to the United States during the late 1800s and early
1900s, and compare and contrast experiences of immigrants.
3. Describe the working conditions and
struggles experienced by the labor force that led to the labor movement (child
labor, hours, safety, wages, standard of living), and evaluate the
effectiveness of efforts to improve conditions.
4. Describe the reasons for and effects of
the rise of Populism in the United States and Louisiana during the late 1800s,
including the role of the Grange, Farmers'Alliance, and Peoples
Party.
5. Analyze the causes and
outcomes of the Progressive movement and the role of muckrakers, including the
Meat Inspection Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Seventeenth Amendment, Thomas
Nast, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Jacob Riis.
6. Analyze the government's response to the
rise of trusts and monopolies, including the passage of the Interstate Commerce
Act of 1887, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and the Clayton Antitrust Act
of 1914.
7. Describe important
ideas and events of presidential administrations during the late 1800s and
early 1900s, with emphasis on Theodore Roosevelt's administration and his
support for trust busting, regulation, consumer protection laws, and
conservation.
8. Explain the
origins and development of Louisiana public colleges and universities,
including land grant institutions, Historically Black Colleges and
Universities, and regional universities.
9. Analyze the events leading to Plessy v.
Ferguson (1896) and the consequences of the decision, including changes to the
Louisiana Constitution.
10. Explain
the emergence of the Jim Crow system and how it affected Black
Americans.
11. Explain the goals
and strategies used by the African American civil rights leaders of the late
1800s and early 1900s, and analyze differing viewpoints of key figures and
groups, including W.E.B. DuBois and the Niagara Movement, Booker T. Washington,
NAACP, Mary Church Terrell, and Ida B. Wells.
J. Analyze ideas and events related to the expansion of the United States during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.
1. Explain the motivations
for migration to and settlement of the West by various groups, including
Exodusters, and how their motivations relate to the American Dream.
2. Analyze Frederick Turner's "The
Significance of the Frontier in American History,"
3. Analyze how lives of Native Americans
changed as a result of westward expansion and U.S. policies, including
extermination of the buffalo, reservation system, Dawes Act, and
assimilation.
4. Analyze the causes
and effects of conflict between Native Americans and the U.S. government and
settlers during the late nineteenth century and early 20th century, including
the Battle of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee and subsequent
treaties.
5. Analyze the events
leading to and effects of the U.S. acquisition of Hawaii.
6. Analyze the ideas and events leading to
the Spanish-American War and the short- and long-term outcomes, including the
terms of the Treaty of Paris (1898), U.S. acquisition of Spanish territories,
and emergence of the United States as a world power.
7. Analyze foreign policy achievements of
Theodore Roosevelt, including the construction of the Panama Canal and use of
the Great White Fleet.
K. Analyze the causes, course and consequences of World War I.
1. Describe the
causes of World War I, including militarism, alliances, imperialism,
nationalism, and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
2. Explain the reasons for the initial U.S.
policy of neutrality and isolationism.
3. Analyze the events leading to U.S.
involvement in World War I, including German submarine warfare, the sinking of
the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Telegram.
4. Analyze how the United States mobilized
for war and ways the American people contributed to the war effort on the home
front and abroad, with an emphasis on military service, role of women and
minority groups, liberty bonds, and victory gardens.
5. Explain how the U.S. government directed
public support and responded to dissent during World War I, including through
the use of wartime propaganda, Committee on Public Information, Espionage Act,
Sedition Act, and Schenck v. United States (1919).
6. Explain how military strategies and
advances in technology affected warfare and the course of World War I,
including trench warfare, airplanes, machine guns, poison gas, submarines, and
tanks.
7. Describe the goals of
leaders at the Paris Peace Conference, comparing Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen
Points, and the Treaty of Versailles.
8. Explain the reaction of the U.S. Congress
to the Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations, and describe the return to
isolationism after the war.
L. Analyze the political, social, cultural and economic effects of events and developments during the early 20th century.
1. Differentiate between the benefits and
detriments of capitalism and communism, and explain how the concepts affected
society during the early 1900s, including the Bolshevik Revolution and the
first Red Scare.
2. Describe the
causes and consequences of Prohibition and the Eighteenth Amendment, including
bootlegging and organized crime, and the later repeal with the Twenty-First
Amendment.
3. Explain how advances
in transportation, technology, and media during the early 20th century changed
society and culture in the United States, including the automobile, radio, and
household appliances.
4. Explain
the importance of the woman's suffrage movement and events leading to the
passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, including the role of key figures such as
Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Burns, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Ida B. Wells.
5. Explain the causes and effects of social
and cultural changes of the 1920s and 1930s on the United States, and describe
the influence of notable figures of the Harlem Renaissance (Louis Armstrong,
Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Sargent
Claude Johnson, Augusta Savage) and cultural figures (Amelia Earhart, Ernest
Hemingway, Jacob Lawrence, Jesse Owens, and Babe Ruth).
6. Explain how various factors affected
Louisiana's economy during the early twentieth century, including booms in the
timber, oil, and gas industries.
7.
Describe the causes of the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927, and explain
how the disaster and government response affected Louisianans.
8. Analyze Louisiana politics in the early
20th century, including the role of Huey Long's career in both Louisiana and
national politics.
9. Explain the
causes and effects of migration and population shifts in the United States
during the early 20th century, including the Great Migration.
10. Analyze factors leading to and
consequences of social and economic tensions in the early 20th century,
including the 1918 influenza outbreak, recession and inflation, labor strikes,
resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, Chicago riot of 1919, and the Tulsa
Massacre.
M. Analyze the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
1.
Explain the causes of the Great Depression, with an emphasis on how bank
failures, buying stock on margin, overextension of credit, overproduction, high
tariffs and protectionism, and the 1929 stock market crash contributed to the
economic crisis.
2. Explain the
effects of the Great Depression on people, including rising unemployment,
foreclosures, growth of "Hoovervilles," and soup kitchens.
3. Describe the causes and effects of the
Dust Bowl, including agricultural practices, drought, and migration.
4. Describe the government response to the
Great Depression, comparing the reaction of the Hoover and Roosevelt
administrations.
5. Analyze the
purpose and effectiveness of the New Deal, including the Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Agricultural Adjustment Act,
National Recovery Administration, Public Works Administration, Glass-Steagall
Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Securities Exchange Act
(SEC), National Housing Act, Works Progress Administration (WPA), and the
Social Security Act (SSA).
N. Describe the causes, course, and consequences of World War II.
1. Explain the
rise and spread of militarism and totalitarianism internationally, examining
the similarities and differences between the ideologies of Imperial Japan,
fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, and the communist Soviet Union, as well as the
origins and effects of violence and mass murder in the 1930s and 1940s as
demonstrated by the Nanjing Massacre, the Holodomor, the Holocaust, and
treatment of political opponents and prisoners of war during World War
II.
2. Describe the acts of
aggression leading to World War II in both Europe and Asia, and explain the
effectiveness of policies and reactions, including the policy of appeasement
towards Nazi Germany.
3. Describe
the causes of World War II, and analyze events that led to U.S. involvement in
World War II, with emphasis on the attack on Pearl Harbor.
4. Describe the role of alliances during
World War II, including the Allies and Axis Powers.
5. Explain the significance of major military
actions and turning points during World War II in the Atlantic Theater (Battle
of The Atlantic, Operation Torch, Battle of Normandy/Operation Overlord, Battle
of The Bulge, Battle of Berlin) and the Pacific Theater (Battle of Bataan and
Bataan Death March, Doolittle Raid, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway,
Battle of Leyte Gulf, Battle of Iwo Jima, Battle of Okinawa).
6. Describe the roles and importance of key
figures of World War II, including leaders from the United States (Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Patton, Douglas
MacArthur), Great Britain (Sir Winston Churchill), France (Charles de Gaulle),
the Soviet Union (Joseph Stalin), Germany (Adolf Hitler), Italy (Benito
Mussolini), and Japan (Michinomiya Hirohito, Hideki Tojo).
7. Explain the causes and consequences of the
Holocaust, including anti-Semitism, Nuremberg Laws restricting civil rights,
resistance efforts, concentration camp system, liberation of camps by the
Allies, and Nuremberg trials.
8.
Describe the Tuskegee Study conducted on Black Americans from the 1930s to
1972.
9. Explain the causes and
effects of Japanese internment in the United States during World War
II.
10. Explain the sacrifices and
contributions of U.S. soldiers during World War II such as the Tuskegee Airmen,
the 442nd Regimental Combat team, the 101st Airborne, Cajun "Frenchies", the
Women's Army Corps (WAC), and the Navajo Code Talkers.
11. Analyze how Louisiana contributed to the
war effort during World War II and the effects of the war on Louisiana,
including the role of the Louisiana Maneuvers, Higgins Boats in the success of
the Allies, and prisoner of war (POW) camps in Louisiana.
12. Explain how life in the United States
changed during and immediately after World War II, with an emphasis on wartime
production and the workforce, rationing, conservation, victory gardens,
financing through war bonds, propaganda campaigns, and the Servicemen's
Readjustment Act (GI Bill).
13.
Explain the events that led to, and the conditions of the surrender of the Axis
Powers in Europe and Asia, and describe the United States'critical role in the
Allied victory.
14. Describe the
importance of the Manhattan Project and development of atomic bombs, and
analyze the decision to use them.
15. Explain how key decisions from Allied
conferences during World War II, including the Atlantic Charter, Tehran, Yalta,
and Potsdam, affected the course of the war and postwar world.
O. 8.15 Analyze causes, major events, and key leaders of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968.
1. Analyze events during and immediately
after World War II leading to the civil rights movement, including Executive
Order 8022 and Executive Order 9981.
2. Explain the origins and goals of the civil
rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and how segregation (de jure and de
facto) affected African Americans and influenced the movement.
3. Analyze how the murder of Emmett Till
affected support for the civil rights movement.
4. Analyze the importance of the Brown v.
Board of Education (1954) decision and subsequent efforts to desegregate
schools, including those of the Little Rock Nine at Central High School in
Arkansas, Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary in Louisiana, and James
Meredith at the University of Mississippi.
5. Analyze the cause, course, and outcome of
efforts to desegregate transportation, including the Baton Rouge Bus Boycott,
Montgomery Bus Boycott, and Freedom Rides.
6. Evaluate the effectiveness of methods
(civil disobedience, boycotts, sit-ins, marches, drives) during the civil
rights movement, including during the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins, 1963
demonstrations in Birmingham, 1963 March on Washington, 1964 Freedom Summer,
and 1965 Selma Marches.
7. Analyze
works of civil rights leaders, including Dr. King's "Letter from Birmingham
Jail" and his "I Have a Dream" speech, and explain how the ideas expressed in
the works influenced the course of the civil rights movement.
8. Explain the role and importance of key
individuals and groups of the civil rights movement, including the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC), Medgar Evers, Shirley Chisholm, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Malcolm
X.
9. Explain reactions to the
civil rights movement by opposing individuals and groups, including George
Wallace and Leander Perez.
10.
Analyze the role of the Supreme Court in advancing civil rights and freedoms
during the 1950s and 1960s, including the court cases of Brown v. Board of
Education (1954), Boynton v. Virginia (1960), and Bailey v. Patterson
(1962).
11. Evaluate legislation
and amendments passed in response to the civil rights movement, including the
TwentyFourth Amendment, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965,
and Civil Rights Act of 1968.
P. Explain the causes, course, and consequences of the Cold War.
1. Explain how
the ideologies of communism in the Soviet Union and capitalism in the United
States influenced the Cold War and global tensions from 1945-1989.
2. Evaluate the effectiveness of U.S.
policies, programs, and negotiation efforts in accomplishing their intended
goals, including the Marshall Plan, containment and related doctrines, mutual
assured destruction, dÃtente, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I and II),
and Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars program).
3. Analyze Cold War crises and conflicts and
how they contributed escalating tensions, including the Berlin Blockade and
Airlift, Korean War, Suez Crisis, U-2 Incident, Cuban Missile Crisis, Bay of
Pigs Invasion, Berlin Crisis of 1961, and Vietnam War, Soviet-Afghan
War.
4. Describe the role of
organizations and alliances during the Cold War, including the United Nations,
NATO, and the Warsaw Pact.
5.
Explain how events during the Cold War affected American society, including the
Second Red Scare and McCarthyism.
6. Explain how advances in technology and
media during the mid- to late twentieth century changed society and public
perception, including newspapers and television, the space race, and the
nuclear arms race.
7. Explain
events and policies leading to the end of the Cold War and collapse of the
Soviet Union under the leadership of President Reagan, including political and
economic pressures, policies of glasnost and perestroika, and the fall of the
Berlin Wall.
Q. Describe the importance of key ideas, events, and developments of the modern era.
1. Explain how events and developments of the
modern era have affected American society.
2. Explain how relationships between the
United States and Middle East affected events and developments during the
modern era, including Persian Gulf Wars, 1993 World Trade Center bombing,
terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the War on Terrorism, and the
establishment of the Department of Homeland Security.
3. Describe the effects of natural disasters
on Louisiana and the United States, including hurricanes Katrina and
Rita.
4. Describe important issues
of the 2008 presidential election and the significance of the election of
Barack Obama.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 17.6, R.S. 17:24.4, and R.S. 17:154.
Disclaimer: These regulations may not be the most recent version. Louisiana may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
Privacy Policy and
Terms of Service apply.
