Georgia standard · Social Studies

`SSUSH8`Slavery and Civil War Origins

Explore the relationship between slavery, growing north-south divisions, and westward expansion that led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

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Expectations

SSUSH8.a
Explain the impact of the Missouri Compromise on the admission of states from the Louisiana Territory.
SSUSH8.b
Examine James K. Polk's presidency in the fulfillment of Manifest Destiny including the Texas annexation and Oregon.
SSUSH8.c
Analyze the impact of the Mexican War on growing sectionalism.
SSUSH8.d
Explain how the Compromise of 1850 arose out of territorial expansion and population growth.
SSUSH8.e
Evaluate the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the failure of popular sovereignty, Scott v. Sanford, John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry, and the election of 1860 as events leading to the Civil War.

US History (EOC) · New Republic through Reconstruction
New Republic through Reconstruction
about 20% of the test · 9 points These points are shared with other standards, so count them once and never add them up per standard.