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HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

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Identify the successes of relatively new democracies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the ideas, leaders, and general societal conditions that have launched and sustained, or failed to sustain, them.

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HSS-PoE.12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

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Examine the causal relationship between scarcity and the need for choices.

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HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

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Understand the relationship of the concept of incentives to the law of supply and the relationship of the concept of incentives and substitutes to the law of demand.

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HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

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Discuss the effects of changes in supply and/or demand on the relative scarcity, price, and quantity of particular products.

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HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

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Explain how prices reflect the relative scarcity of goods and services and perform the allocative function in a market economy.

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HSS-PoE.12.5 Students analyze the aggregate economic behavior of the U.S. economy.

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Distinguish between short-term and long-term interest rates and explain their relative significance.

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HSS-PoE.12.6 Students analyze issues of international trade and explain how the U.S. economy affects, and is affected by, economic forces beyond the United States’s borders.

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Explain foreign exchange, the manner in which exchange rates are determined, and the effects of the dollar’s gaining (or losing) value relative to other currencies.