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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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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.

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 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).

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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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.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.4 Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.

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Describe the country’s physical landscapes, political divisions, and territorial expansion during the terms of the first four presidents.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.4 Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.

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Explain the policy significance of famous speeches (e.g., Washington’s Farewell Ad-dress, Jefferson’s 1801 Inaugural Address, John Q. Adams’s Fourth of July 1821 Address).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.4 Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.

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Analyze the rise of capitalism and the economic problems and conflicts that accompanied it (e.g., Jackson’s opposition to the National Bank; early decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that reinforced the sanctity of contracts and a capitalist economic system of law).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.4 Students analyze the aspirations and ideals of the people of the new nation.

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Discuss daily life, including traditions in art, music, and literature, of early national America (e.g., through writings by Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper).