Oklahoma State Standards

8.9 The student will analyze the social and economic transformations of the early nineteenth century.

8.10 The student will analyze major political, economic, and social events that resulted in the Civil War.

8.9.1 Explain the impact of the Industrial Revolution in the North including the concentration of population,

manufacturing, and transportation.

8.9.2 Describe the plantation system and its reliance on a slave labor system in the South, including how Eli

Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin increased the profitability of the crop and led to the expansion of slavery.

8.9.3 Compare perspectives and experiences of both free and enslaved blacks including the

A. everyday life of free African Americans

B. everyday acts of resistance to slavery

C. efforts of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

D. Nat Turner’s Rebellion

E. legal restrictions and Slave Codes

8.9.4 Summarize the impact of the Abolitionist Movement including the writings and work of Frederick

Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison.

8.9.5 Identify the ideals, significance, and key leaders of the Second Great Awakening and the Women’s

Suffrage Movement, including the Declaration of Sentiments and the leadership of Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth

Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth.

8.10.1 Summarize the importance of slavery as the principal cause of increased sectional polarization leading

to the Civil War.

8.10.2 Evaluate the goals of the Compromise of 1850 regarding the issue of slavery.

8.10.3 Evaluate the impact of the publication Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, on anti-slavery

sentiments.

8.10.4 Analyze the impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on the issue of popular sovereignty in new territories

regarding the institution of slavery, repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and factional feuds in Bleeding

Kansas.

8.10.5 Summarize the Dred Scott v. Sandford case which declared slaves as property and motivated John

Brown’s Raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry