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71. Citizenship and Government1. Civic Skills1. Democratic government depends on informed and engaged citizens who exhibit civic skills and values, practic civic discourse, vote and participate in elections, apply inquiry and analysis skills and take action to solve problems and shape public policy.7.1.1.1.1Exhibit civic skills including participating in civic discussion on issues in the contemporary United States, demonstrating respect for the opinions of people or groups who have different perspectives, and reaching consensus.
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2. Civic Valus and Principles of Democracy3. The United States is based on democratic values and principles that include liberty, individual rights, justice, equality, the rule of law, limited government, common good, popular sovereignty, majority rule and minority rights.7.1.2.3.1Identify examples of how principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence and Preamble to the Constitution have been applied throughout United States history, including how they have evolved over time.
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3. Rights and Responsibilities5. Individuals in a republic have rights, duties and responsibilities.7.1.3.5.1Explain landmark Supreme Court decisions involving the Bill of Rights and other individual protections; explain how these decisions helped define the scope and limits of personal, political and economic rights.
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6. Citizenship and its rights and duties are established by law.7.1.3.6.1Describe the components of responsible citizenship including informed voting and decision making, developing and defending positions on public policy issues, and monitoring and influencing public decision making.
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7.1.3.6.2Compare and contrast the rights and responsibilities of citizens, non-citizens and dual citizens.
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4. Governmental Institutions and Political Processes7. The United States government has specific functions that are determined by the way that power is delgated and controlled among various bodies; the three levels and the three branches of government.7.1.4.7.1Describe historical applications of the principle of checks and balances within the United States government.
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8. The primary purposes of rules and laws within the United States constitutional government are to protect individual rights, promote the general welfare and provide order.7.1.4.8.1Analyze how the Constitution and the Bill of Rights limits the government and the governed, protects indivudal rights, supports the principle of majority rule while protecting the rights of the minority, and promotes the general welfare.
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7.1.4.8.2Describe the amendment process and the impact of key constitutional amendments.
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10. Free and fari elections are key elements of the United States political system.7.1.4.10.1Analyze how change in election processes over time contributed to free and fairer elections.
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5. Relationships of the United States to other nations and organizations11. The United States establishes and maintains relationships and interacts with indigenous nations and other sovereign nations, and plays a key role in world affairs.7.1.5.11.1Describe diplomacy and other foreign policy tools; cite historical cases in which the United States government used these tools.
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2. Economics1. Economic Reasoning Skills1. People make informed economic choices by identifying their goals, interpreting and applying data, considering the short-and long-run costs and benefits of alternative choices and revising their goals based on their analysis.7.2.1.1.1Apply reasoned decision-making techniques in making choices; explain why different households or groups faced with the same alternatives might make different choices.
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3. Fundamental Concepts3. Because of scarcity individuals, organizations and governments must evaluate trade-offs, make choices and incur opportunity costs.7.2.3.3.1Explain how items are allocated or rationed when scarcity exists.
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4. Microeconomics5. Individuals, businesses and governments interact and exchange goods, services and resources in different ways and for different reasons; interactions between buyers and sellers in a market determines the price and quanity exhcnaged of a good, service or resource.7.2.4.5.1Describe how the interaction of buyers and sellers determines price in a market.
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6. Profit provices an incentive for individuals and businesses; different business organizations and market structures have an effect on the profit, price and production of goods and services.7.2.4.6.1Describe profit as an incentive for an individual to take the risks associated with creating and producting new goods or starting a business in an existing market; give examples of how the pursuit of profit can lead to undesirable, as well as desirable, effects.
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3. Geography1. Geospatia Skills--The World in Spatial Terms1. People use geographic representations and geospatial technologies to acquire, process and report information within a spatial context.7.3.1.1.1Create and use various kinds of maps, including overlaying thematic maps, of places in the United States; incorproate the TODALSS map basics, as well as points, lines, colored areas to display spatial information.
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4. History1. Historical Thinking Skills2. Historical inquiry is a process in which multiple sources and different kinds of historical evidence are analyzed to draw conclusions about how and why things happened in the past.7.4.1.2.1Pose questions about a topic in United States history, gather and organize a variety of primary and secondary sources related to the questions, analyze sources for credibility and bias; suggest possible answers and write a thesis statement; use sources to draw conclusions and support the thesis; present supported findings, and cite sources.
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2. Peoples, Cultures and Change Over Time4. The differences and similarities of cultures around the world are attributable to their diverse origins and histories, and interactions with other cultures throughout time.7.4.2.4.1Compare 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.
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4. United States History18. Economic expansion and the conquest of indigenous and Mexican territory spurred the agricultural and industrial growth of the United States; led to increasing regional, econmic and ethnic divisions; and inspried multiple reform morements. 7.4.4.18.1Describe the processes that led to the territorial expansion of the United States, including the Louisiana Purchase and other land purchases, wars and treaties with foreign and indigenous nations, and annexation.
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7.4.4.18.2Identify new technologies and innovations that transformed the United States' economy and society; explain how they influenced political and regional development.
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7.4.4.18.3Identify casues and consequences of Antebellum reform movements including abolition and women's rights.
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19. Regional tensions around economic development, slavery, territorial expansion and governance resulted in a Civil War and a period of Reconstruction that led to the abolition of slavery, a more powerful federal government, a renewed push into indigenous nations' territory and continuing conflict over racial relations.7.4.4.19.1Cite the main ideas of the debate over slavery and states' rights; explain how they resulted in major political compromises and, ultimately, war.
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7.4.4.19.2Outline the major political and military events of the Civil War; evaluate how economics and foreign and domestic politics affected the outcome of the war.
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7.4.4.19.3Describe the effects of the Civil War on Americans in the north, south and west, including liberated African-Americans, women, former slaveholders and indigenous peoples.
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20. As the United States shifted from its agrarian roots into an industrial and global power, the rise of bug business, urbanization and immigration led to institutionalized racism, ethnic and class conflict and new efforts at reform.7.4.4.20.1Explain the impact of the United States Industrial Revolution on the production, consumption and distribution of goods.
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7.4.4.20.2Analyze the consequences of economic transformation on migration, immigration, politics and public policy at the turn of the twentieth century.
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7.4.4.20.3Compare and contrast reform movements at the turn of the twentieth century.
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7.4.4.20.4Analyze 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 to reservations.
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7.4.4.20.5Describe the strategies used by suffragists in their campaigns to secure the right to vote; identify the Nineteenth Amendment.
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7.4.4.20.6Evaluate the changing role of the United States regarding its neighboring regions and its expanding sphere of influence around the world.
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7.4.4.20.7Outline the causes and conduct of World War I including the nations involved, major political and military figures, and key battles.
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7.4.4.20.8Identify the political impact of World War I, including the formation of the League of Nations and renewed United States isolationism until World War II.
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21. The economic growth, cultural innovation and political apathy of the 1920s ended in the Great Depression which spurred new forms of government intervention and renewed labor activism, followed by World War II and an economic resurgence.7.4.4.21.1Identify causes of the Great Depression and factors that led to an extended period of economic collapse in the United States.
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7.4.4.21.2Describe the impact of the Great Depression on United States society, including ethnic and racial minorities, and how government responded to events with New Deal policies.
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7.4.4.21.3Outline how the United States mobilized its economic and military resources during World War II; describe the impact of the war on domestic affairs.
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7.4.4.21.4Outline the causes and conduct of World War I including the nations involved, major political and military figures, and key battles and the Holocaust.
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22. Post-World War II United States was shaped by an economic boom, Cold War military engagements, politics and protests, and rights movements to improve the status of racial minorities, women and America's indigenous peoples.7.4.4.22.1Identify military and non-military actions taken by the United States during the Cold War to resist the spread of communism.
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7.4.4.22.2Analyze the social and political effects of the Cold War on the people of the United States.
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7.4.4.22.3Compare and contrast the involvement and role of the United States in global conflicts and acts of cooperation.
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7.4.4.22.4Explain the economic boom and social transofmration experienced by postwar United States.
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7.4.4.22.5Describe the changing role of the federal government in reshaping post-war society.
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7.4.4.22.6Compare and contrast the goals and tacts of the Civil Rights Movement, the American Indian Movement, and the Women's Rights Movement; explain the advantages and disadvantages of non-violent resistence.
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23. The end of the Cold War, shifting geopolitical dynamics, the intensification of the gloabl economy and rapidly changing technologies have given renewed urgency to debates about the United States' identify, values and role in the world.7.4.4.23.1Describe how new technologies have changed political, economic and social interactions.
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7.4.4.23.2Analyze the changing relations between the United States and other countries around the world in the beginning of the twenty-first century.
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