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Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and economic opportunities.

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Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

Overarching Standard:
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.

Overarching Standard:
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.