Standard 6: Growth and Westward Expansion

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Number: SS.5.A.6
Title: Growth and Westward Expansion
Type: Standard
Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 5
Strand: American History

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Access Points

SS.5.A.6.AP.1
Recognize that the Louisiana Purchase made the United States twice its original size.
SS.5.A.6.AP.2
Recognize significant people in the westward expansion of the United States.
SS.5.A.6.AP.3
Identify an advancement with transportation and communication in America during the 1800s.
SS.5.A.6.AP.4
Recognize significant exploration achievements west of the Mississippi River.
SS.5.A.6.AP.5
Recognize that America fought England in the War of 1812.
SS.5.A.6.AP.6
Recognize the westward expansion impacted Native Americans.
SS.5.A.6.AP.7
Identify Manifest Destiny with westward expansion.
SS.5.A.6.AP.8
Identify one cause and one effect of the Missouri Compromise.
SS.5.A.6.AP.9
Identify hardships settlers faced as they moved west.

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