Standards
| NSS-C.9-12.1 CIVIC LIFE, POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT |
- What is civic life? What is politics? What is government? Why are government and politics necessary? What purposes should government serve?
- What are the essential characteristics of limited and unlimited government?
- What are the nature and purposes of constitutions?
- What are alternative ways of organizing constitutional governments?
| NSS-USH.5-12.5 ERA 5: CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1850-1877) |
- Understands the causes of the Civil War
- Understands the course and character of the Civil War and its effects on the American people
- Understands how various reconstruction plans succeeded or failed
| NSS-USH.5-12.8 ERA 8: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II (1929-1945) |
- Understands the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society
- Understands how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression, transformed American federalism, and initiated the welfare state
- Understands the causes and course of World War II, the character of the war at home and abroad, and its reshaping of the U.S. role in world affairs
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- Understands the economic boom and social transformation of postwar United States
- Understands how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics
- Understands domestic policies after World War II
- Understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties
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- Understands recent developments in foreign and domestic politics
- Understands economic, social, and cultural developments in contemporary United States
| NSS-WH.5-12.7 ERA 7: AN AGE OF REVOLUTIONS, 1750-1914 |
- the causes and consequences of political revolutions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
- the causes and consequences of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, 1700-1850.
- the transformation of Eurasian societies in an era of global trade and rising European power, 1750-1850.
- patterns of nationalism, state-building, and social reform in Europe and the Americas, 1830-1914.
- patterns of global change in the era of Western military and economic domination, 1850-1914.
- major global trends from 1750 to 1914.
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- reform, revolution, and social change in the world economy of the early century.
- the causes and global consequences of World War I.
- the search for peace and stability in the 1920s and 1930s.
- the causes and global consequences of World War II.
- major global trends from 1900 to the end of World War II.
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- how post-World War II reconstruction occurred, new international power relations took shape, and colonial empires broke up.
- the search for community, stability, and peace in an interdependent world.
- major global trends since World War II.