8th U.S. History OCCT Review List 2015
Standard 1.1 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Summarize the political and economic consequences of the French and Indian War on the 13
colonies.
1. Albany Plan of Union pg 142
2. British taxation policies in the colonies
Standard 1.2 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze the cause and effect relationship of the events leading up to the War of Independence.
1. Boston Massacre pg 148-149
2. Stamp Act Resolves pg 147
3. Committees of Correspondence pg 152
4. Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) pg 151-152
5. Boston Tea Party pg 151
6. First Continental Congress pg 152
7. Battles of Lexington and Concord pg 153
8. Patrick Henry—Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech pg 147
9. Thomas Paine—Common Sense pg 170-171
10. Boycotts pg 147
11. colonial protest pg 147-149, 154-155
12. King George III pgs. 147,151,158,170
13. British Parliament pgs 146-148, 151-152, 158,
14. restriction of colonial rights
Standard 1.3 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze the ideological and propaganda war between Great Britain and the 13 colonies.
1. Point of view of patriots pg 157
2. Loyalists pg 157
3. neutrals pg 157
4. Patriotic writings of Mercy Otis Warren pg 154
5. Patriotic writings of Phillis Wheatley pg 120
6. Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre pg 148
7. Rejection of the Olive Branch Petition by King George III pg 158
8. Colonists’ political grievances as expressed in cartoons and broadsides 154-155
9. British Parliament pgs. 146-148, 151-152, 158,
10. Second Continental Congress pg 156
Standard 1.4 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Understand the origins, grievances, and unalienable rights of the Declaration of Independence
1. John Locke’s theory of natural rights (unalienable rights/equality) pg 172
2. Concept of the Social Contract (consent of the governed) pg 172
3. Equality, inalienable rights, and consent of the governed pg 172
4. Purpose of the Declaration of Independence pg 172
5. Grievances found in the Declaration of Independence pg 172
6. Evaluate the contributions of Thomas Jefferson and the Committee of Five pg 172-173
Standard 1.5 (Celebrate Freedom Week) Items require students to make conclusions based on personal
knowledge and from readings, graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Understand how the social contract has been preserved and protected by the American military when
necessary
1. Social contract in the Declaration of Independence pg 172
2. Civilian contributions to the military in service to their country Valley Forge pg 184
Standard 2.1 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze the first American government formed under the Articles of Confederation.
1. Unicameral Legislature pg 206
2. Negotiated international treaties pg 206
3. Negotiated peace with Great Britain pg 208
4. Articles of Confederation pg 206-208
5. Continental Congress’ oversight of the war:
6. Appointment of George Washington as Commander of the Continental Army pg 156
7. Unanimous vote (all 13 colonies) required to amend Articles of Confederation pg 206
Standard 2.2 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze various colonial populations and their perspective towards the War for Independence
1. Whether to fight for independence, remain loyal to the king, or to be neutral pg 157
2. The choices that free and enslaved African Americans had of escaping to freedom, or joining the British or
Colonial forces, or remaining enslaved pg 186-187
3. The decisions Native Americans had as to which side to support in hopes of protecting their traditional
cultures and native territories pg 188-189
4. Point of view of and motivations:
a. Loyalist pg 157
b. Patriots pg 157
c. neutrals pg 157
d. free and enslaved African Americans pg 186-187
e. Native Americans pg 188-189
Standard 2.3 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Describe and analyze the impact of key military and diplomatic events of the War of Independence.
1. General George Washington and his military leadership
2. Importance of victories at:
a. Boston
b. Trenton pg 181
c. Saratoga pg 181-182
3. Importance of the French Alliance pg 183
4. Publication of Thomas Paine’s The Crisis pg 181
5. Valley Forge encampment pg 184
6. Defeat of Cornwallis’s army at the Siege of Yorktown pg 192
Standard 3.1 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze the issues and events that led to the Constitutional Convention.
1. Strengths and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation pg 206-208
2. Lack of common national currency pg 208
3. Lack of common defense pg 208
4. Management of war debts
5. Disputes over the western territories as resolved by the Northwest Ordinance pg 207, 210-211
6. Civil unrest and Shays’ Rebellion pg 208-209
Standard 3.2 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze the issues, debates, compromises, and contributions of individuals in the drafting the
Constitution.
1. George Mason—Argued for a Bill of Rights
2. Gouverneur Morris—Preamble, final draft of the Constitution
3. James Madison—Created the Virginia Plan, father of the Constitution
4. George Washington—President of the Convention
5. Great Compromise pg 214-215
6. Three-Fifths Compromise pg 215
7. Major debates pg 213-215
8. Virginia Plan pg 213
9. New Jersey Plan pg 214
Standard 3.3 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Examine and explain the arguments for and against the ratification of the United States Constitution.
1. Federalist Paper Number 10 pg 225
2. Federalist Paper Number 51 pg 225
3. Federalist pg 218
4. Anti-Federalist pg 219
5. Central Government
6. Omission of a bill of rights pg 219
Standard 3.4 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Explain the constitutional principles found in the American Constitution.
1. Popular sovereignty pg 256
2. Consent of the governed pg 256
3. Separation of powers pg 256
4. Checks and balances pg 257
5. Federalism pg 257
6. Judicial review pg 263
Standard 3.5 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Summarize the rights and responsibilities of American citizens as found in the Bill of Rights.
1. Bill of Rights pg 265
Standard 4.1 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze the major issues facing the early presidential administrations.
1. The suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion and the government’s right to tax pg. 287
2. President George Washington’s advice for the new nation in his Farewell Address pg 297
3. The restriction of individual rights in the Alien and Sedition Acts and the responses of the RepublicanDemocrats in the
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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions pg 301
4. Impact of the Presidential election of 1800 and the peaceful transfer of political power from one party to
another
a. Federalist-Washington pg 310
b. Adams Party pg 310
5. Acquisition of territory through the Louisiana Purchase
a. Contributions of the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery Expedition pg 317-318, 320-321
6. The Marshall Court’s precedent-setting decisions
a. Marbury v. Madison pg 313-314
b. McCulloch v. Maryland pg
c. interpretation of the Constitution
d. establishment of the Supreme Court as an independent and equal branch of government
7. The War of 1812 which confirmed American independence and fueled a spirit of nationalism
8. Increased sectional tensions as the nation dealt with the expansion of slavery and attempts to limit it
through the Missouri Compromise 1820 -- balance of power between free and slave states
9. The Monroe Doctrine as an attempt to protect American interests and territory in the western hemisphere
Standard 4.2 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Summarize the significance and impact of the Jacksonian Era.
1. Election of Andrew Jackson
a. victory of the common man
2. Nullification Crisis
a. Development of states’ Rights
b. Arguments between Senator Daniel Webster and
c. Senator John C. Calhoun
3. Impact of government policies, non-adherence to treaties, and territorial expansion on Native Americans
including
a. loss of land
b. resistance and removal of the Five Tribe
Standard 4.3 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Compare and contrast the economies of the North and South.
1. Concentration of populations
2. North
a. manufacturing
b. shipping
c. development of railroads
3. South
a. plantation system
b. cotton gin
c. slave labor
Standard 4.4 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Describe African American experiences from 1800-1860.
1. Harriet Tubman
2. Sojourner Truth
3. Frederick Douglass
4. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
5. Underground Railroad—efforts to escape
6. Pre-Civil War Black Codes—legal restrictions in the South
Standard 4.5 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze, and summarize the significance of the Abolitionist and Women’s Suffrage Movements and
the contributions of leaders.
1. Abolition Movement Leaders and Influences
a. Sojourner Truth
b. Frederick Douglas
c. William Lloyd Garrison
d. Second Great Awakening
2. Suffrage Movement Leaders and Influences
a. Susan B. Anthony
b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c. Seneca Falls Convention
d. Declaration of Sentiments
Standard 4.6 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Examine and explain the concept of Manifest Destiny and its impact on westward expansion.
1. General Horace Greely – “Go west, young man, go west and grow up with your country.”
2. John O’Sullivan – Manifest Destiny
3. Territorial growth resulting from the
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Annexation of Texas
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Mexican War/Mexican Cession
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Gadsden Purchase
4. Causes of the rapid settlement of
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Oregon - Free Land
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California - Gold Rush
5. Impact upon Native American culture and tribal lands
6. Growing sectional tensions regarding the expansion of slavery
Standard 5.1 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Summarize the importance of slavery as a cause for the American Civil War.
1. Compromise of 1850 as a last attempt to reach a compromise regarding slavery
2. Fugitive Slave Act and an end to the slave trade in Washington D.C.
3. Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Beecher Stowe as fuel for anti-slavery sentiments
4. Kansas-Nebraska Act as it established the principle of
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popular sovereignty in the new territories
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repealed the Missouri Compromise
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led to factional feuds in Bleeding Kansas
5. Dred Scott v. Sanford case which
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declared slaves as property and
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motivated John Brown’s Raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry
Standard 5.2 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings, graphs,
charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Analyze the significance of the 1860 presidential election.
1. Secession of South Carolina as expressed in the Ordinance of Secession
2. state sovereignty
3. Goal of Abraham Lincoln to preserve the Union
4. Formation of the Confederate States of America
5. Opening attack on Fort Sumter
6. Rising tensions over the strategic importance of the Border States
Standard 5.3 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of the Union and Confederacy upon the eve
of the American Civil War.
1. President Abraham Lincoln
2. President Jefferson Davis
3. Ulysses S. Grant
4. Robert E. Lee
5. Compare characteristics of the North and South: economic output, population, transportation systems,
military leadership.
Standard 5.4 Items require students to make conclusions based on personal knowledge and from readings,
graphs, charts, and other source materials provided.
EMPHASIS: Identify and summarize the consequences of the major turning points of the war.
1. Anaconda Plan
2. Total War Strategy
3. Battle of Antietam as a catalyst for the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation and its role in expanding
the goals of the war to include the ending of slavery
4. Battle of Gettysburg as inspiration for
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Gettysburg Address and
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How Lincoln’s speech clarified the Union’s motivations for winning the war
5. Capture of Vicksburg in securing the Union’s control of the Mississippi River
6. Excerpts from Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address calling for national reconcilation
7. Generosity of the North in terms of surrender demands as offered to General Lee at Appomattox
Courthouse
8. Impact of Lincoln’s assassination and loss of his leadership on plans for Reconstruction