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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Describe food production and consumption long ago and today, including the roles of farmers, processors, distributors, weather, and land and water resources.

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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand the role and interdependence of buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) of goods and services.

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HSS-2.4 Students understand basic economic concepts and their individual roles in the economy and demonstrate basic economic reasoning skills.

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Understand how limits on resources affect production and consumption (what to produce and what to consume).

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Students understand the importance of individual action and character and explain how heroes from long ago and the recent past have made a difference in others’ lives (e.g., from biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Louis Pasteur, Sitting Bull, George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride).

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Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Describe the relationship between the moral and political ideas of the Great Awakening and the development of revolutionary fervor.

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HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Analyze the philosophy of government expressed in the Declaration of Independence, with an emphasis on government as a means of securing individual rights (e.g., key phrases such as “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”).

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HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Analyze how the American Revolution affected other nations, especially France.

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HSS-8.1 Students understand the major events preceding the founding of the nation and relate their significance to the development of American constitutional democracy.

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Describe the nation’s blend of civic republicanism, classical liberal principles, and English parliamentary traditions.

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Students analyze the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.