Benchmark Analyze the extent to which the American Dream was maintained or denied. Indicators Trace the development of social customs which resulted in institutionalizing segregation. Discuss the influence of the West and the effect of the closing of the frontier on ideas and cultural developments. Evaluate the response of Native Americans to westward expansion and Federal Indian policy. Benchmark Analyze the role of sectional disputes and the economic changes in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Indicators Describe significant elements of the Civil War.
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.