🗽 Social Studies · Grade 8

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“The Civil War ended slavery, but what would freedom mean? Reconstruction tried to answer that, and the answer was fought over for a century.”

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• The 13th Amendment ended slavery, the 14th promised citizenship and equal protection, the 15th banned denying the vote by race.
• The Freedmen's Bureau helped formerly enslaved people build schools and find work.
• Southern states passed Black Codes and later Jim Crow laws; sharecropping trapped many families in debt.
• In 1877 federal troops left the South, and Reconstruction ended.

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“Between 1880 and 1920, factories boomed and millions of immigrants arrived, many through Ellis Island in New York Harbor.”

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• Big businesses in steel, oil and railroads changed the economy.
• Ellis Island opened in 1892; millions of immigrants entered there.
• Crowded tenements and child labor were harsh realities in cities like New York.
• Workers formed unions. The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City killed 146 workers and led to new safety laws.

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“Reporters called muckrakers exposed problems; reformers fought back with new laws.”

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• Muckrakers wrote about unsafe food, dangerous factories and corruption.
• The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 made food and medicine safer.
• Suffragists won the 19th Amendment in 1920: women's right to vote.

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“By 1900 the U.S. reached beyond its borders: Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal.”

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• After the Spanish-American War in 1898, the U.S. gained Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines.
• The U.S. annexed Hawaii in 1898, after American businessmen overthrew Queen Liliuokalani.
• The Panama Canal opened in 1914, linking the Atlantic and Pacific.

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“The U.S. joined World War I in 1917. After the war came jazz, radios, cars and the Harlem Renaissance in New York City.”

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• The U.S. entered World War I in 1917; the war ended in 1918.
• In Harlem, Black writers, artists and musicians created the Harlem Renaissance.
• New products and buying on credit fueled the 1920s boom.
• In the Great Migration, millions of Black Americans moved from the South to northern cities.

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“In 1929 the stock market crashed. Banks failed and millions lost jobs. Government took on a bigger role.”

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• The stock market crashed in October 1929.
• Drought and dust storms ruined farms on the Great Plains.
• President Franklin Roosevelt, a New Yorker, created New Deal programs for relief, recovery and reform.
• Social Security and the FDIC still exist today.

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“The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 pulled the U.S. into World War II, at home and abroad.”

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• Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
• On the home front, women and men worked in war factories; goods were rationed.
• About 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced into camps, a violation of their rights.
• Nazi Germany murdered six million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust. The war ended in 1945.

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“After 1945 the U.S. and the Soviet Union competed without fighting each other directly: a Cold War with nuclear weapons, space races and proxy wars.”

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• The United Nations was founded in 1945; its headquarters is in New York City.
• Containment led to wars in Korea and Vietnam.
• In 1962 the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world close to nuclear war.
• The Berlin Wall fell in 1989; the Soviet Union broke apart in 1991.
• On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon, changing U.S. foreign policy.

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“Ordinary people, from students to seamstresses, used courts, boycotts and marches to win civil rights laws.”

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• In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
• After Rosa Parks' arrest in 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted over a year.
• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed discrimination and protected voting.

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“Inspired by civil rights activists, women, Latino farmworkers, Native Americans, people with disabilities and LGBTQ Americans organized too.”

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• César Chávez and Dolores Huerta organized farmworkers for fair pay.
• Title IX in 1972 banned sex discrimination in schools that get federal money, opening sports to girls.
• The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 protects the rights of people with disabilities.
• The 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City is seen as a turning point for LGBTQ rights.

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“After World War II, suburbs like Levittown on Long Island grew, highways spread, and new immigration laws changed who Americans are.”

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• Levittown on Long Island, built starting in 1947, became a model suburb. At first, Black families were excluded by the deeds.
• The 1956 highway act built the interstate system.
• The 1965 Immigration Act ended national-origin quotas, bringing more immigrants from Asia and Latin America.
• Computers and the internet transformed work and daily life.

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“Historians don't just read documents: they ask who made them, when, why, and for whom.”

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• HAPP: historical context, audience, purpose, point of view.
• Primary sources come from the time; secondary sources are later explanations.
• A document-based essay: a thesis, evidence from several documents, and your own outside knowledge.

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“Your rights came from people who used the First Amendment. Now it's your turn to participate.”

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• The First Amendment protects speech, religion, press, assembly and petition.
• The 26th Amendment in 1971 set the voting age at 18.
• Participate locally: school boards, town meetings, service projects.

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