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VS.1
The student will develop skills for historical and geographical analysis including the ability to
a) identify and interpret artifacts and primary and secondary source documents to understand events in history;
b) determine cause and effect relationships;
c) compare and contrast historical events;
d) draw conclusions and make generalizations;
e) make connections between past and present;
f) sequence events in Virginia history;
g) interpret ideas and events from different historical perspectives;
h) evaluate and discuss issues orally and in writing;
i) analyze and interpret maps to explain relationships among landforms, water features, climatic characteristics, and historical events.
VS.9 - Virginia: 1900 to the Present
The student will demonstrate knowledge of twentieth century Virginia by
a) describing the economic and social transition from a rural, agricultural society to a more urban, industrialized
society, including the reasons people came to Virginia from other states and countries;
b) identifying the social and political events in Virginia linked to desegregation and Massive Resistance and
their relationship to national history;
c) identifying the political, social, and/or economic contributions made by Maggie Walker, Harry F. Byrd, Sr.,
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr., and L. Douglas Wilder.
USII.8
The student will demonstrate knowledge of the key domestic issues during the second half of the twentieth century by
a) examining the Civil Rights Movement and the changing role of women;
b) describing the development of new technologies and their impact on American life.
WG.6
The student will analyze past and present trends in human migration and cultural interaction as they are influenced by social, economic, political, and environmental factors.
WG.12
The student will apply geography to interpret the past, understand the present, and plan for the future by
a) using geographic knowledge, skills, and perspectives to analyze problems and make decisions;
b) relating current events to the physical and human characteristics of places and regions.
VUS.14
The student will demonstrate knowledge of economic, social, cultural, and political developments in the contemporary
United States by
a) analyzing the effects of increased participation of women in the labor force;
b) analyzing how changing patterns of immigration affect the diversity of the United States population, the reasons new immigrants
choose to come to this country, and their contributions to contemporary America;
c) explaining the media influence on contemporary American culture and how scientific and technological advances affect
the workplace, health care, and education.
Updated October 2003
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