The highlighted evidence outcomes are the priority for all students, serving as the essential concepts and skills. It is recommended that the remaining evidence outcomes listed be addressed as time allows, representing the full breadth of the curriculum.

Students Can (Evidence Outcomes):

• Use and interpret documents and other relevant primary and secondary sources pertaining to United States history from multiple perspectives. (1.1.a)

• Analyze ideas that are critical to the understanding of early United States history. For example: Ideas involved in major events and movements such as settler colonialism, the changing definition of liberty and citizenship, enslavement of African and Indigenous Peoples, federalism, nativism of the Antebellum period, emancipation, and expansionism. (1.2.f)

• Describe major political and/or social changes that affected the definition of citizenship, expanded or restricted the rights of citizens, and how those changes impacted women, Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, LGBTQ, religious minorities, and people living in annexed territories. (4.1.a)

• Analyze the relationship between the debate about citizenship and national identity in early U.S History, and how those ideas shaped political institutions and society. (4.1.b)

• Analyze primary sources supporting democratic freedoms and the founding of our government and explain how they provide for both continuity and change. Including but not limited to: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Sentiments. (4.1.e)

• Examine ways members of society may effectively and civilly voice opinions, monitor government, and bring about change on a local, state, and national level, and which could have global implications. (4.1.f)

• Explain the role and importance of the Constitution and the strength of amendments made during this time period. Including but not limited to: the Bill of Rights, and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. (4.2.b)

•  Apply knowledge about the three branches of government and how they interact with one another to historical and contemporary problems. (4.2.c)

• Discuss the tensions between individual rights and liberties, state, tribal, and national law. (4.2.e)

• Explain how the state and federal courts' power of judicial review is reflected in the United States’ form of constitutional government. (4.2.f)

• Use a variety of resources to identify and evaluate issues that involve civic responsibility, individual rights, and the common good. (4.2.g)