This Unit Includes the Following MN Social Studies Standards Benchmarks

• Compare and contrast the distribution and political status of indigenous populations in the United States and Canada; describe how their status has evolved throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (7.4.2.4.1)

• Analyze the consequences of economic transformation on migration, immigration, politics, and public policy at the turn of the twentieth century. (7.4.4.20.2)

• Explain the economic boom and social transformation experienced by postwar United States. (7.4.4.22.4)
• Analyze the effects of racism and legalized segregation on American society, including the compromise of 1876, the rise of "Jim Crow," immigration restriction, and the relocation of American Indian tribes. (7.4.4.20.4)