Indiana Academic Standards Our Programs Meet
3.1.1 Identify and describe Native American Woodland Indians who lived in the region when European settlers arrived.
3.1.2 Explain why and how the local community was established and identify its founders and early settlers.
3.1.3 Describe the role of the local community and other communities in the development of the state’s regions.
3.1.4 Give examples of people, events and developments that brought important changes to your community and the region where your community is located.
3.1.8 Describe how your community has changed over time and how it has stayed the same.
3.3.11 Describe how Native Americans and early settlers of Indiana adapted to and modified their environment to
survive.
3.4.3 Give examples of trade in the local community and explain how trade benefits both parties.
3.4.4 Define interdependence and give examples of how people in the local community depend on each other for goods and services.
4.1.2 Identify and describe historic Native American Indian groups that lived in Indiana at the time of early European exploration, including ways these groups adapted to and interacted with the physical environment.
4.1.5 Identify and explain the causes of the removal of Native American Indian groups in the state and their resettlement during the 1830s
4.3.6 Describe Indiana’s landforms (lithosphere*), water features (hydrosphere*), and plants and animals (biosphere*).
4.3.8 Identify the challenges in the physical landscape of Indiana to early settlers and modern day economic development.
4.3.9 Explain the importance of major transportation routes, including rivers, in the exploration, settlement and growth of Indiana and in the state’s location as a crossroad of America.
5.1.2 Examine accounts of early European explorations of North America including major land and water routes, reasons for exploration and the impact the exploration had.
5.1.3 Compare and contrast historic Indian groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic and sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
5.1.6 Identify and explain instances of both cooperation and conflict that existed between Native American Indians and colonists
5.3.7 Identify major sources of accessible fresh water and describe the impact of access on the local and regional communities.
5.3.11 Describe adaptation and how Native American Indians and colonists adapted to variations in the physical environment.
5.4.1 Describe the economic activities within and among Native American Indian cultures prior to contact with Europeans. Examine the economic incentives that helped motivate European exploration and colonization.
6.1.20 Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causations, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs and chance in history.
6.3.10 Explain the ways cultural diffusion, invention, and innovation change culture.
6.3.13 Explain the impact of humans on the physical environment in Europe and the Americas.
6.4.2 Analyze how countries of Europe and the Americas have been influenced by trade in different historical periods.
3.1.1 Identify and describe Native American Woodland Indians who lived in the region when European settlers arrived.
3.1.2 Explain why and how the local community was established and identify its founders and early settlers.
3.1.3 Describe the role of the local community and other communities in the development of the state’s regions.
3.1.4 Give examples of people, events and developments that brought important changes to your community and the region where your community is located.
3.1.8 Describe how your community has changed over time and how it has stayed the same.
3.3.11 Describe how Native Americans and early settlers of Indiana adapted to and modified their environment to
survive.
3.4.3 Give examples of trade in the local community and explain how trade benefits both parties.
3.4.4 Define interdependence and give examples of how people in the local community depend on each other for goods and services.
4.1.2 Identify and describe historic Native American Indian groups that lived in Indiana at the time of early European exploration, including ways these groups adapted to and interacted with the physical environment.
4.1.5 Identify and explain the causes of the removal of Native American Indian groups in the state and their resettlement during the 1830s
4.3.6 Describe Indiana’s landforms (lithosphere*), water features (hydrosphere*), and plants and animals (biosphere*).
4.3.8 Identify the challenges in the physical landscape of Indiana to early settlers and modern day economic development.
4.3.9 Explain the importance of major transportation routes, including rivers, in the exploration, settlement and growth of Indiana and in the state’s location as a crossroad of America.
4.3.10 Identify immigration patterns and describe the impact diverse ethnic and cultural groups has had and has on Indiana.
5.1.2 Examine accounts of early European explorations of North America including major land and water routes, reasons for exploration and the impact the exploration had.
5.1.3 Compare and contrast historic Indian groups of the West, Southwest, Northwest, Arctic and sub-Arctic, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodlands regions at the beginning of European exploration in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
5.1.4 Locate and compare the origins, physical structure and social structure of early Spanish, French and British settlements.
5.1.6 Identify and explain instances of both cooperation and conflict that existed between Native American Indians and colonists
5.3.4 Identify Native American Indian and colonial settlements on maps and explain the reasons for the locations of these places.
5.3.7 Identify major sources of accessible fresh water and describe the impact of access on the local and regional communities.
5.3.11 Describe adaptation and how Native American Indians and colonists adapted to variations in the physical environment.
5.4.1 Describe the economic activities within and among Native American Indian cultures prior to contact with Europeans. Examine the economic incentives that helped motivate European exploration and colonization.
6.1.20 Analyze cause-and-effect relationships, keeping in mind multiple causations, including the importance of individuals, ideas, human interests, beliefs and chance in history.
6.3.10 Explain the ways cultural diffusion, invention, and innovation change culture.
6.3.13 Explain the impact of humans on the physical environment in Europe and the Americas.
6.4.2 Analyze how countries of Europe and the Americas have been influenced by trade in different historical periods.
3.1.8 Describe how your community has changed over time and how it has stayed the same.
3.4.8 Gather data from a variety of resources about changes that have had an economic impact on your community.
4.1.7 Explain the roles of various individuals, groups, and movements in the social conflicts leading to the Civil War.
4.1.8 Summarize the impact of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency on Indiana and describe the participation of Indiana citizens in the Civil War.
6.1.23 Identify issues related to an historical event in Europe or the Americas and give basic arguments for and against that issue utilizing the perspectives, interests and values of those involved.
6.2.5 Discuss the impact of major forms of government in Europe and the Americas on civil and human rights.
8.1.11 Compare and contrast the ways of life in the northern and southern states, including the growth of towns and cities and the growth of industry in the North and the growing dependence on slavery and the production of cotton in the South.
8.1.20 Give examples of how immigration affected American culture in the decades before and the Civil War, including growth of industrial sites in the North; religious differences; tensions between middle-class and working-class people, particularly in the Northeast; and intensification of cultural differences between the North and the South.
8.1.21 Give examples of the changing role of women, minorities, and immigrants in the northern, southern and western parts of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, and examine possible causes for
these changes.
8.1.22 Describe the abolitionist movement and identify figures and organizations involved in the debate over slavery, including leaders of the Underground Railroad
8.1.23 Analyze the influence of early individual social reformers and movements such as the abolitionist, feminist and social reform movements.
8.1.24 Analyze the causes and effects of events leading to the Civil War, and evaluate the impact issues such as states’ rights and slavery had in developing America’s sectional conflict.
8.1.25 Identify the factors and individuals which influenced the outcome of the Civil War and explain the significance of each.
8.1.26 Compare and contrast the three plans for Reconstruction and evaluate the merits of each.
8.1.27 Describe causes and lasting effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction as well as the political controversies surrounding this time such as Andrew Johnson’s impeachment, the Black Codes, and the Compromise of 1877. (Government, Economics)
8.2.1 Identify and explain essential ideas of constitutional government, which include limited government; rule of law; due process of law; separated and shared powers; checks and balances; federalism; popular sovereignty; republicanism; representative government; and individual rights to life, liberty and property; and freedom of conscience.
