Eighth Grade Social Studies
8.E.MI.1 Describe the impact of supply and demand on equilibrium prices and quantities produced in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.ole of consumers and producers in product markets.
8.E.MI.2 Assess the ways factors of production are combined in innovative ways resulting in economic growth and increased standards of living.
8.E.MA.1 Analyze differing perspectives regarding the role of government in the economy, including the role of money and banking.
8.E.MA.2 Assess how regions of the United States specialized based on supply and demand due to their geographic locations.
8.E.IC.1 Evaluate economic decisions based on scarcity, opportunity costs and incentives.
8.E.IC.2 Assess the impact of growth and expansion on the allocation of resources and economic incentives.
8.E.KE.1 Explain how regional trends and policies impacted Kentucky's economy prior to the Civil War.
8.E.KE.2 Explain how the availability of resources in Kentucky led people to make economic choices from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.MM.1 Interpret how political, environmental, social and economic factors led to both forced and voluntary migration in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.HI.1 Explain how global interconnections impacted culture, land use and trade in the United States during Colonial Era through Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.HE.1 Analyze how cultural and technological changes influenced how people interacted with their environments in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.GR.1 Use maps and other geographic representations, geospatial technologies, and spatial thinking to analyze settlement patterns in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.G.KGE.1 Analyze Kentucky's role in the early nation through Reconstruction based on its physical geography and location.
8.H.CH.1 Explain the role changing political, social and economic perspectives had on the lives of diverse groups of people in the Colonial Era.
8.H.CH.2 Analyze how social and ideological philosophies impacted various movements in the United States from the Colonial Era to Reconstruction from 1600-1877.
8.H.CH.3 Explain how political, social and economic perspectives in the United States led to the rise in sectionalism between 1840-1860.
8.H.CH.4 Evaluate the impact technological innovations made on agriculture, trade and commerce in the years leading up to the Civil War between 1840-1860.
8.H.CH.5 Explain examples of political, geographic, social and economic changes and consistencies in the different regions of the United States between 1860-1877.
8.H.CE.1 Analyze how the political, geographic, social and economic choices of the Colonial Era impacted the Revolutionary Period and Early Republic Period.
8.H.CE.2 Analyze the cause and effect of Westward Expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction on the diverse populations of the United States.
8.H.CO.1 Explain how colonial resistance to British control led to the Revolutionary War.
8.H.CO.2 Describe the conflicts and compromises that shaped the development of the U.S. government between 1783-1877.
8.H.CO.3 Analyze how economic, social, ideological and political changes led to sectional and national tensions, inspiring reform movements between 1840-1860.
8.H.CO.4 Explain how sectionalism and slavery within the United States led to conflicts between 1820-1877.
8.H.KH.1 Articulate Kentucky's role in early American history from the earliest colonial settlement to 1877.
8.H.KH.2 Examine patterns of collaboration and conflict between immigrants to Kentucky and those already in residence from 1775 to 1877.