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Curriculum Standard: 4th Grade

Students study the history of the United States and South Carolina in grade four, beginning with the colonization of the United States and continuing through Reconstruction.

4.3.CO: Compare the motivations for and reactions to various expeditions into the Western territories.

4.3.CE: Analyze the effects of government policies in promoting United States territorial expansion into the west.

4.3.P: Analyze the role of technology and the environmental impact during the period of Westward Expansion.

4.3.CX: Contextualize South Carolina’s role in the development of sectionalism during the antebellum period.

4.3.CC: Recognize patterns of continuity and change in the experiences of Native Americans and Spanish-speaking people as the U.S. expanded westward.

4.3.E: Analyze multiple perspectives of early westward expansion, including the addition of slave and free territories and states.

4.4.CO: Compare the economic and political causes of the Civil War.

4.4.CE: Explain the effects of military strategies utilized by the Union and the Confederacy.

4.4.P: Explain how emancipation was achieved as a result of civic participation.

4.4.CX: Contextualize South Carolina’s experience during the Civil War.

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