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HSS-5.8 Students trace the colonization, immigration, and settlement patterns of the American people from 1789 to the mid-1800s, with emphasis on the role of economic incentives, effects of the physical and political geography, and transportation systems.

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Relate how and when California, Texas, Oregon, and other western lands became part of the United States, including the significance of the Texas War for Independence and the Mexican-American War.

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Students know the location of the current 50 states and the names of their capitals.

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Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

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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.12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

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Explain opportunity cost and marginal benefit and marginal cost.

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

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Identify the difference between monetary and nonmonetary incentives and how changes in incentives cause changes in behavior.

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

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Evaluate the role of private property as an incentive in conserving and improving scarce resources, including renewable and nonrenewable natural resources.

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

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Analyze the role of a market economy in establishing and preserving political and personal liberty (e.g., through the works of Adam Smith).

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Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

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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.