8.1. Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.
8.2. Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.
8.3. Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.
8.4. Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.
8.5. Students analyze U.S. foreign policy in the early Republic.
8.6. Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced, with emphasis on the Northeast.
8.7. Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
8.8. Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
8.9. Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
8.10. Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.
8.11. Students analyze the character and lasting consequences of Reconstruction.
8.12. Students analyze the transformation of the American economy and the changing social and political conditions in the United States in response to the Industrial Revolution.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/histsocscistnd.pdf was adopted by the California State Board of Education on October 9, 1998
https://www.sdcoe.net/lls/ccr/Pages/California-History-Social-Science-Framework.aspx was adopted by the State Board of Education on July 14, 2016. Although the framework does not change the state History-Social Science standards, it does have several implications for curriculum and instruction.
https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/hs/cf/hssframework.asp The State Board of Education adopted the History-Social Science Framework on July 14, 2016. This is the final digital version of the Framework.
Grade 7 California History/Social Science Content Standards
7.1 Students analyze the causes and effects of the vast expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire.
7.2 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Islam in the Middle Ages.
7.3 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of China in the Middle Ages.
7.4 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the sub-Saharan civilizations of Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa.
7.5 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Japan.
7.6 Students analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Medieval Europe.
7.7 Students compare and contrast the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the Meso-American and Andean civilizations.
7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the Renaissance.
7.9 Students analyze the historical developments of the Reformation.
7.10 Students analyze the historical developments of the Scientific Revolution and its lasting effect on religious, political, and cultural institutions.
7.11 Students analyze political and economic change in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries (the Age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason).