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Standard Identifier: HSS-11.7.5

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.

Standard:
Discuss the constitutional issues and impact of events on the U.S. home front, including the internment of Japanese Americans (e.g., Fred Korematsu v. United States of America) and the restrictions on German and Italian resident aliens; the response of the administration to Hitler’s atrocities against Jews and other groups; the roles of women in military production; and the roles and growing political demands of African Americans.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.7.6

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.

Standard:
Describe major developments in aviation, weaponry, communication, and medicine and the war’s impact on the location of American industry and use of resources.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.7.7

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.

Standard:
Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision (Hiroshima and Nagasaki).

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.7.8

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.7 Students analyze America’s participation in World War II.

Standard:
Analyze the effect of massive aid given to Western Europe under the Marshall Plan to rebuild itself after the war and the importance of a rebuilt Europe to the U.S. economy.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Standard:
Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.1

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Trace the growth of service sector, white collar, and professional sector jobs in business and government.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.2

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Describe the significance of Mexican immigration and its relationship to the agricultural economy, especially in California.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.3

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Examine Truman’s labor policy and congressional reaction to it.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.4

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Analyze new federal government spending on defense, welfare, interest on the national debt, and federal and state spending on education, including the California Master Plan.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.5

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Describe the increased powers of the presidency in response to the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.6

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Discuss the diverse environmental regions of North America, their relationship to local economies, and the origins and prospects of environmental problems in those regions.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.7

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Describe the effects on society and the economy of technological developments since 1945, including the computer revolution, changes in communication, advances in medicine, and improvements in agricultural technology.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.8.8

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.8 Students analyze the economic boom and social transformation of post–World War II America.

Standard:
Discuss forms of popular culture, with emphasis on their origins and geographic diffusion (e.g., jazz and other forms of popular music, professional sports, architectural and artistic styles).

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Standard:
Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9.1

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard:
Discuss the establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9.2

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard:
Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9.3

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard:
Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following: • The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting • The Truman Doctrine • The Korean War • The Berlin Blockade • The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis • Atomic testing in the American West, the “mutual assured destruction” doctrine, and disarmament policies • The Vietnam War • Latin American policy

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9.4

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard:
List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the “nuclear freeze” movement).

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9.5

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard:
Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold War.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9.6

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard:
Describe U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War.

Standard Identifier: HSS-11.9.7

Grade: 11
Course: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century, Grade 11

Overarching Standard:
HSS-11.9 Students analyze U.S. foreign policy since World War II.

Standard:
Examine relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard:
Analyze the influence of ancient Greek, Roman, English, and leading European political thinkers such as John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Niccolò Machiavelli, and William Blackstone on the development of American government.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard:
Discuss the character of American democracy and its promise and perils as articulated by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard:
Explain how the U.S. Constitution reflects a balance between the classical republican concern with promotion of the public good and the classical liberal concern with protecting individual rights; and discuss how the basic premises of liberal constitutionalism and democracy are joined in the Declaration of Independence as “self-evident truths.”

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard:
Explain how the Founding Fathers’ realistic view of human nature led directly to the establishment of a constitutional system that limited the power of the governors and the governed as articulated in the Federalist Papers.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard:
Describe the systems of separated and shared powers, the role of organized interests (Federalist Paper Number 10), checks and balances (Federalist Paper Number 51), the importance of an independent judiciary (Federalist Paper Number 78), enumerated powers, rule of law, federalism, and civilian control of the military.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.1.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.1 Students explain the fundamental principles and moral values of American democracy as expressed in the U.S. Constitution and other essential documents of American democracy.

Standard:
Understand that the Bill of Rights limits the powers of the federal government and state governments.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.10

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students formulate questions about and defend their analyses of tensions within our constitutional democracy and the importance of maintaining a balance between the following concepts: majority rule and individual rights; liberty and equality; state and national authority in a federal system; civil disobedience and the rule of law; freedom of the press and the right to a fair trial; the relationship of religion and government.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.2.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Standard:
Discuss the meaning and importance of each of the rights guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and how each is secured (e.g., freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition, privacy).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.2.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Standard:
Explain how economic rights are secured and their importance to the individual and to society (e.g., the right to acquire, use, transfer, and dispose of property; right to choose one’s work; right to join or not join labor unions; copyright and patent).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.2.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Standard:
Discuss the individual’s legal obligations to obey the law, serve as a juror, and pay taxes.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.2.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Standard:
Understand the obligations of civic-mindedness, including voting, being informed on civic issues, volunteering and performing public service, and serving in the military or alternative service.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.2.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Standard:
Describe the reciprocity between rights and obligations; that is, why enjoyment of one’s rights entails respect for the rights of others.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.2.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.2 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the scope and limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Standard:
Explain how one becomes a citizen of the United States, including the process of naturalization (e.g., literacy, language, and other requirements).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.3.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.3 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.

Standard:
Explain how civil society provides opportunities for individuals to associate for social, cultural, religious, economic, and political purposes.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.3.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.3 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.

Standard:
Explain how civil society makes it possible for people, individually or in association with others, to bring their influence to bear on government in ways other than voting and elections.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.3.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.3 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.

Standard:
Discuss the historical role of religion and religious diversity.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.3.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.3 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.

Standard:
Compare the relationship of government and civil society in constitutional democracies to the relationship of government and civil society in authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students analyze the unique roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government as established by the U.S. Constitution.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.4.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.4 Students analyze the unique roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government as established by the U.S. Constitution.

Standard:
Discuss Article I of the Constitution as it relates to the legislative branch, including eligibility for office and lengths of terms of representatives and senators; election to office; the roles of the House and Senate in impeachment proceedings; the role of the vice president; the enumerated legislative powers; and the process by which a bill becomes a law.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.4.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.4 Students analyze the unique roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government as established by the U.S. Constitution.

Standard:
Explain the process through which the Constitution can be amended.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.4.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.4 Students analyze the unique roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government as established by the U.S. Constitution.

Standard:
Identify their current representatives in the legislative branch of the national government.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.4.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.4 Students analyze the unique roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government as established by the U.S. Constitution.

Standard:
Discuss Article II of the Constitution as it relates to the executive branch, including eligibility for office and length of term, election to and removal from office, the oath of office, and the enumerated executive powers.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.4.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.4 Students analyze the unique roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government as established by the U.S. Constitution.

Standard:
Discuss Article III of the Constitution as it relates to judicial power, including the length of terms of judges and the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.4.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.4 Students analyze the unique roles and responsibilities of the three branches of government as established by the U.S. Constitution.

Standard:
Explain the processes of selection and confirmation of Supreme Court justices.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.5.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

Standard:
Understand the changing interpretations of the Bill of Rights over time, including interpretations of the basic freedoms (religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly) articulated in the First Amendment and the due process and equal-protection-of-the-law clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.5.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

Standard:
Analyze judicial activism and judicial restraint and the effects of each policy over the decades (e.g., the Warren and Rehnquist courts).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.5.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

Standard:
Evaluate the effects of the Court’s interpretations of the Constitution in Marbury v. Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, and United States v. Nixon, with emphasis on the arguments espoused by each side in these cases.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.5.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.5 Students summarize landmark U.S. Supreme Court interpretations of the Constitution and its amendments.

Standard:
Explain the controversies that have resulted over changing interpretations of civil rights, including those in Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena, and United States v. Virginia (VMI).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.6.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Standard:
Analyze the origin, development, and role of political parties, noting those occasional periods in which there was only one major party or were more than two major parties.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.6.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Standard:
Discuss the history of the nomination process for presidential candidates and the increasing importance of primaries in general elections.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.6.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Standard:
Evaluate the roles of polls, campaign advertising, and the controversies over campaign funding.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.6.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Standard:
Describe the means that citizens use to participate in the political process (e.g., voting, campaigning, lobbying, filing a legal challenge, demonstrating, petitioning, picketing, running for political office).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.6.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Standard:
Discuss the features of direct democracy in numerous states (e.g., the process of referendums, recall elections).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.6.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.6 Students evaluate issues regarding campaigns for national, state, and local elective offices.

Standard:
Analyze trends in voter turnout; the causes and effects of reapportionment and redistricting, with special attention to spatial districting and the rights of minorities; and the function of the Electoral College.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Explain how conflicts between levels of government and branches of government are resolved.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Identify the major responsibilities and sources of revenue for state and local governments.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Discuss reserved powers and concurrent powers of state governments.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Discuss the Ninth and Tenth Amendments and interpretations of the extent of the federal government’s power.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Explain how public policy is formed, including the setting of the public agenda and implementation of it through regulations and executive orders.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Compare the processes of lawmaking at each of the three levels of government, including the role of lobbying and the media.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.7

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Identify the organization and jurisdiction of federal, state, and local (e.g., California) courts and the interrelationships among them.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.7.8

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.7 Students analyze and compare the powers and procedures of the national, state, tribal, and local governments.

Standard:
Understand the scope of presidential power and decision making through examination of case studies such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, passage of Great Society legislation, War Powers Act, Gulf War, and Bosnia.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.8

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the influence of the media on American political life.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.8.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.8 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the influence of the media on American political life.

Standard:
Discuss the meaning and importance of a free and responsible press.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.8.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.8 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the influence of the media on American political life.

Standard:
Describe the roles of broadcast, print, and electronic media, including the Internet, as means of communication in American politics.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.8.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.8 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on the influence of the media on American political life.

Standard:
Explain how public officials use the media to communicate with the citizenry and to shape public opinion.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Standard:
Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Explain how the different philosophies and structures of feudalism, mercantilism, socialism, fascism, communism, monarchies, parliamentary systems, and constitutional liberal democracies influence economic policies, social welfare policies, and human rights practices.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Compare the various ways in which power is distributed, shared, and limited in systems of shared powers and in parliamentary systems, including the influence and role of parliamentary leaders (e.g., William Gladstone, Margaret Thatcher).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of federal, confederal, and unitary systems of government.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Describe for at least two countries the consequences of conditions that gave rise to tyrannies during certain periods (e.g., Italy, Japan, Haiti, Nigeria, Cambodia).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Identify the forms of illegitimate power that twentieth-century African, Asian, and Latin American dictators used to gain and hold office and the conditions and interests that supported them.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Identify the ideologies, causes, stages, and outcomes of major Mexican, Central American, and South American revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.7

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Describe the ideologies that give rise to Communism, methods of maintaining control, and the movements to overthrow such governments in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Poland, including the roles of individuals (e.g., Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel).

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoAD.12.9.8

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of American Democracy, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoAD.12.9 Students analyze the origins, characteristics, and development of different political systems across time, with emphasis on the quest for political democracy, its advances, and its obstacles.

Standard:
Identify the successes of relatively new democracies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and the ideas, leaders, and general societal conditions that have launched and sustained, or failed to sustain, them.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Standard:
Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.1.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

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

Standard:
Examine the causal relationship between scarcity and the need for choices.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.1.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

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

Standard:
Explain opportunity cost and marginal benefit and marginal cost.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.1.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

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

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

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.1.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

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

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

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.1.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

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

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

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

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

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.1

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
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.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.10

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Discuss the economic principles that guide the location of agricultural production and industry and the spatial distribution of transportation and retail facilities.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.2

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Discuss the effects of changes in supply and/or demand on the relative scarcity, price, and quantity of particular products.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Explain the roles of property rights, competition, and profit in a market economy.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.4

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Explain how prices reflect the relative scarcity of goods and services and perform the allocative function in a market economy.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.5

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Understand the process by which competition among buyers and sellers determines a market price.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.6

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Describe the effect of price controls on buyers and sellers.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.7

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Analyze how domestic and international competition in a market economy affects goods and services produced and the quality, quantity, and price of those products.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.8

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Explain the role of profit as the incentive to entrepreneurs in a market economy.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.2.9

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.2 Students analyze the elements of America’s market economy in a global setting.

Standard:
Describe the functions of the financial markets.

Standard Identifier: HSS-PoE.12.3

Grade: 12
Course: Principles of Economics, Grade 12

Standard:
Students analyze the influence of the federal government on the American economy.

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