california history standards history unboxed alignment

Please note: Our Modern History Curriculum (coming soon!) will align with many of the subject areas in the History-Social Science Framework, including Modern California, Women in United States History, The Harlem Renaissance, and Principles of American Democracy.

California Content Standards

K.1 Understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain ways.
K.6 Understand that history relates to events, people, and places of other times.

1.2 Compare and contrast the absolute and relative locations of places and people and describe the physical and/or human characteristics of places.
1.3 Understand the symbols, icons, and traditions of the United States that provide continuity and a sense of community across time.
1.4 Compare and contrast everyday life in different times and places around the world and recognize that some aspects of people, places, and things change over time while others stay the same.
1.5 Describe the human characteristics of familiar places and the varied backgrounds of American citizens and residents in those places.

2.4 Understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy[.]
2.5 Understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives.

3.2 Describe the American Indian nations in [the student’s] local region long ago and in the recent past.
3.4 Understand the role of rules and laws in our daily lives and the basic structure of the U.S. government.

4.2 Describe the social, political, cultural, and economic life and interactions among people of California from the pre-Columbian societies to the Spanish mission[s] and Mexican rancho periods.
4.3 Analyze the effects of the Gold Rush on settlements, daily life, politics, and the physical environment.
4.4 Explain how California became an agricultural and industrial power[.]

5.1 Describe the major pre-Columbian settlements.
5.2 Trace the routes of early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.
5.3 Describe the cooperation and conflict that existed among the American Indians and between the Indian nations and the new settlers.
5.4 Understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.
5.5 Explain the causes of the American Revolution.
5.6 Understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.
5.8 Trace the colonization, immigration, and settlement patterns of the American people from 1789 to the mid-1800’s, with emphasis on the role of economic incentives, effects of the physical and political geography, and transportation systems.

6.2-7 Analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the early civilizations of Mesopotamia [and] Egypt (6.2), the Ancient Hebrews (6.3), Ancient Greece (6.4), India (6.5), China (6.6), and the development of Rome (6.7).

7.1 Analyze the causes and effects of the vast expansion and ultimate disintegration of the Roman Empire.
7.2-7 Analyze the geographic, political, economic, religious, and social structures of the civilizations of Islam in the Middle Ages (7.2), China in the Middle Ages (7.3), Ghana and Mali in Medieval Africa (7.4), Medieval Japan (7.5), Medieval Europe (7.6), Meso-American and Andean civilizations (7.7)
7.11 Analyze political and economic change in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

8.8 Analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the West from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.
8.9 Analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
8.10 Analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.

11.1 Analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.