Grade Six

United States History: 1877 to the Present

HSS.6.10 The student will develop skills for historical analysis, including the ability to

• identify, analyze, and interpret primary sources (artifacts, diaries, letters, photographs, art, documents, and newspapers) and contemporary media (computer information systems) and to make generalizations about events and life in United States history since 1877;
• recognize and explain how different points of view have been influenced by nationalism, race, religion, and ethnicity;
• distinguish fact from fiction by examining documentary sources;
• construct various time lines of United States history since 1877 including landmark dates, technological and economic changes, social movements, military conflicts, and presidential elections; and
• locate on a United States map all 50 states, the original 13 states, the states that formed the Confederacy, and the states which entered the Union since 1877.

Students can improve their historical analysis skills by assimilating their firsthand experiences in our late 1800’s boomtown with the documentary and primary sources they study in the classroom. The rich mineral deposits are part of the native industry of this region, and our original buildings are themselves historical artifacts which students can analyze in comparison with their textbook.