Evaluate the economic consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Benchmark Analyze the impact of geographic conditions on sectionalism and as pull factors of Western expansion. Indicators Identify the role that geography played in the alignment of the North, South, and West during the Civil War. Discuss the influence of the West and the effect of the closing of the frontier on American ideas and cultural developments. Benchmark Analyze the role of regional social tensions that led to the Civil War and the extent to which economic change resulted from Reconstruction.
Indicators Evaluate the social consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Trace the development of social customs which resulted in the Federal institutionalization of the policy of segregation. Benchmark Analyze the ways that cultural and economic change redefined American ideals. Indicators Describe how immigration created new social patterns and conflicts. Describe the contributions of individuals and immigrant groups. Indicators Describe the impact of third parties on the American political system.