NCES.AH1.H.8 - Analyze the relationship between progress crisis and the "American Dream" within the United States.
- NCES.AH1.H.8.1 - Analyze the relationship between innovation, economic development, progress and various perceptions of the "American Dream" through Reconstruction (e.g., inventions, Industrial Revolution, American System, etc.).
- NCES.AH1.H.8.2 - Explain how opportunity and mobility impacted various groups within American society through Reconstruction (e.g., City on a Hill, Lowell and other "mill towns", Manifest Destiny, immigrants/migrants, Gold Rush, Homestead Act, Morrill Act, Exodusters, women, various ethnic groups, etc.).
- NCES.AH1.H.8.3 - Evaluate the extent to which a variety of groups and individuals have had opportunity to attain their perception of the "American Dream" through Reconstruction (e.g., various ethnic, religious, racial, socio-economic groups of people; plantation society; transcendentalism; 49ers; etc.).
- NCES.AH1.H.8.4 - Analyze multiple perceptions of the "American Dream" in times of prosperity and crisis through Reconstruction (e.g., Hamilton's Financial Plan; Embargo of 1807; Manifest Destiny, phases of Reconstruction; various ethnic, religious, racial, socio-economic groups of people, etc.).