All regions:                                               
14.5.11 Identify the expansion of U.S. territory from the American Revolution to the U.S. Civil War and identify the nations or groups from which the territory was acquired (e.g. Native American tribes, Mexico, and France) and ways in which territories were acquired (e.g. conquest, purchase, etc.).
15.5.01  Identify the functioning of a free market economy in which producers make the goods and services that consumers want.
15.5.04  Define free enterprise; understand that markets exist wherever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services. 
15.5.07: Define the concept of supply and demand and describe how changes in supply and demand affect prices of specific products.
15.5.09  Identify the impact of changes in the price of goods/services on the quantity purchased (demand).
15.5.10: Identify the productive resources (human, natural, and capital) used in the production of goods and services.
16.5.03: Interpret tables, charts and graphs that represent simple historical, social, political, geographic and economic data.                                                 
16.5.14 Identify the basic facts and implications of the Louisiana Purchase.
16.5.20: Identify early western migration from the perspective of settlers and Native Americans.
16.5.29:  Identify railroads, population growth, and natural resources as factors that helped the United States economy to grow faster than that of any other country in the late 19^th century; describe conditions in America’s farmlands and cities during the growth of the industrial age.
16.5.32  Identify the reasons why many people came to America in the late 19^th century and describe the discrimination, hardships, and new opportunities faced by many; explain the meaning of America as a “land of opportunity; know the meaning of e pluribus unum.
16.5.94: Distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable resources.
17.5.01: Use map and globe skills to compare the physical characteristics of places.
17.5.02  Use maps and other geographic representations and instruments to identify: the continents, the oceans, major American rivers and lakes, the 50 states and their capitals and major world capitals.
17.5.03  Identify map features and evaluate the usefulness of different geographic representations for different purposes.
17.5.07: Locate places using cardinal directions.
17.5.09: Define and distinguish among rural, urban, and suburban areas.
17.5.10  Understand how and why people alter the physical environment to meet their needs by: tree-cutting, mining and raising food.
17.5.12: Understand how the physical geography of a place can help of hinder the development of human settlement or civilization.
17.5.14  Identify the historical, cultural, economic and geographic factors that led to the formation of distinct regional identities in the United States.

Northeast:                                 
15.5.05 Define specialization; understand that markets exist wherever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.
15.5.06: Understand that consumers make choices in an environment of limited resources and understand why people are both consumers and producers.
15.5.19  Identify governments as the providers of public goods and services (e.g., schools, roads, and fire protection).

South:                                 
14.5.12  Identify the policy of Indian removal and be able to define “trail of tears” as it relates to the resettlement of the Cherokee Indians.
16.5.05:  Identify the introduction of slavery into America, the harsh conditions of the middle passage, the responses of slave families, the struggles between proponents and opponents of slavery and the institutionalization of slavery.                               
16.5.06  Identify the social characteristics of the northern, middle, and southern colonies, and describe major individuals associated with their founding.
16.5.24 Identify the basic or primary causes of the U. S. Civil War, including: conflicting interpretations of state and federal authority and the geographical and economic differences between the North and South.

Midwest:
16.5.08  Identify competing nations and their interests in North America before the American Revolution.
16.5.15  Identify the basic facts and implications of the Louisiana Purchase.
16.5.16  Identify significant accomplishments of individuals, groups , or events and their impact on early westward expansion of the nation, including: the Lewis and Clark expedition, Daniel Boone, “mountain men,” pioneers, and the Gold Rush.
16.5.20  Identify early western migration from the perspective of settlers and Native Americans.

West:
16.5.16  Identify significant accomplishments of individuals, groups , or events and their impact on early westward expansion of the nation, including: the Lewis and Clark expedition, Daniel Boone, “mountain men,” pioneers, and the Gold Rush.
18.5.06: Identify the basic features of significant social movements and events from history.