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Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.2 Students analyze the political principles underlying the U.S. Constitution and compare the enumerated and implied powers of the federal government.

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Describe the principles of federalism, dual sovereignty, separation of powers, checks and balances, the nature and purpose of majority rule, and the ways in which the American idea of constitutionalism preserves individual rights.

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Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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HSS-8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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Analyze the principles and concepts codified in state constitutions between 1777 and 1781 that created the context out of which American political institutions and ideas developed.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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Explain how the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 privatized national resources and transferred federally owned lands into private holdings, townships, and states.

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HSS-8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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Enumerate the advantages of a common market among the states as foreseen in and protected by the Constitution’s clauses on interstate commerce, common coinage, and full-faith and credit.

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HSS-8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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Understand how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g., view of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition Acts, economic policy, National Bank, funding and assumption of the revolutionary debt).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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Know the significance of domestic resistance movements and ways in which the central government responded to such movements (e.g., Shays’ Rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion).

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HSS-8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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Describe the basic law-making process and how the Constitution provides numerous opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process and to monitor and influence government (e.g., function of elections, political parties, interest groups).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.3 Students understand the foundation of the American political system and the ways in which citizens participate in it.

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Understand the functions and responsibilities of a free press.

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Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.