High School Social Studies IAS Standards

Trade

Economic Stabilization

Money and the Role of Financial Institutions

National Economic Performance

Role of Government

Market Structures

Supply and Demand

Scarcity and Economic Reasoning

Match a productive resource (i.e., natural, human, capital) to its role in producing goods and services. (E)

Identify incentives and how positive and negative incentives work to influence economic behavior.

Identify why households, businesses, and governments engage in voluntary exchange.

Describe how scarcity leads to choices, and identify the opportunity costs associated with decisions. (E)

Use a production possibilities curve to show trade offs and opportunity costs.

Identify the characteristics of traditional, market, and command economies.

Identify why property rights are important to market economies.

Identify how investment in capital (physical and human) leads to increased productivity. (E)

Use a circular flow diagram to show how money flows from businesses to households, and from households to businesses.

Define the Law of Supply and the Law of Demand. (E)

Identify that consumers determine what is produced.

Identify the equilibrium price and quantity on a market supply and demand graph.

Identify factors that cause changes in market supply and demand.

Describe factors other than price that might affect the number of items purchased.

Identify factors that determine how much workers are paid. Examples: market value of the product produced, workers' productivity, and collective bargaining. (E)

Describe sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.

Describe monopolies and competitive markets.

Identify how competition in markets affects price and quality. (E)

Define public goods and identify how market failures lead to underproduction of public goods.

Identify why the government has an interest in the production of public goods and services. (E)

Identify how the government subsidizes positive externalities to resolve inefficiencies or why the government taxes negative externalities.

Describe challenges that state and federal governments face in achieving a balanced budget. (E)

Identify personal income tax as a progressive tax, sales tax, and Federal Income Contributions as a regressive tax. (E)

Describe budget debt and budget deficit and identify an effect of both on the economy. (E)

Describe gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment, and inflation.

Describe how rational spending of households, businesses, and government impacts a country's overall income, employment, and price level.

Identify the limitations of using GDP to measure economic welfare.

Identify the causes of inflation (i.e., cost-push and demand-pull). (E)

Describe the business cycle in a market economy.

Identify the different types of unemployment, including structural, cyclical, frictional, and seasonal.

Identify a function of money.

Identify the role banks or other financial institutions play for savers, borrowers, and investors. (E)

Identify how banks create money when loans are made and the role that the fractional reserve plays in the process.

Identify the different functions of the Federal Reserve, including regulating the money supply, regulating banks, and providing financial services to the U.S. Government.

Identify how interest rates benefit savers and borrowers. (E)

List two or more ways to invest money to save for the future. (E)

Identify equilibrium price and quantity on a supply and demand graph.

Define fiscal and monetary policy.

Identify the tools of fiscal policy (government spending and taxes) and the tools of monetary policy (interest rates, reserve requirements, buying and selling of treasury bonds).

Identify the ways the government uses fiscal policy to promote economic stability, full employment, and economic growth.

Identify how the use of fiscal policy affects budget deficits or surpluses and the national debt.

Identify the ways the Federal Reserve uses monetary policy to promote economic stability, full employment, and economic growth.

Define trade barriers and identify why a country erects them.

Define free trade and identify one reason for and one reason against free trade.

Economic Stabilization

Money and the Role of Financial Institutions

National Economic Performance

Role of Government

Market Structures

Supply and Demand

Scarcity and Economic Reasoning

Students explain that because resources are limited, people must make choices, understanding the role that supply, demand, prices, and profits play in a market economy. Key elements of the course include study of scarcity and economic reasoning, supply and demand, market structures, the role of government, national economic performance, the role of financial institutions, economic stabilization, and trade.

Define and identify each of the productive resources (i.e., natural, human, capital) and explain why each is necessary for the production of goods and services. (E)

Identify incentives and explain how they influence economic behavior and decision-making.

Explain that voluntary exchange occurs when households, businesses, and governments expect to gain.

Define scarcity, and explain how choices incur opportunity costs and trade-offs. (E)

Use a production possibilities curve to explain the concepts of choice, scarcity, opportunity cost, trade offs, unemployment, productivity, and growth.

Describe and compare the various economic systems (i.e., traditional, market, command, mixed); explain their strengths and weaknesses. (E)

Describe how clearly defined and enforced property rights are essential to a market economy.

Illustrate how investment in physical and human capital can raise productivity and future standards of living. (E)

Diagram and explain the circular flow of a market economy.

Define supply and demand, and explain the causes of the Law of Supply and the Law of Demand. (E)

Recognize that consumers ultimately determine what is produced in a market economy.

Illustrate how supply and demand determine equilibrium price and quantity.

Identify factors that cause changes in market supply and demand and how these changes affect price and quantity in a competitive market.

Describe how price elasticity of supply and price elasticity of demand send signals to buyers and sellers.

Describe how the earnings of workers are determined by a number of factors including the market value of the product produced, workers' productivity, the amount of human capital held by workers, collective bargaining, and discrimination. (E)

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of various types of firms including sole proprietorships, partnerships, and corporations.

Compare and contrast the basic characteristics of the four market structures: monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and pure competition.

Explain how competition in markets affects price and quantity. (E)

Explain how market failures may result in the underproduction of public goods and explain the role of government in addressing those failures.

Explain how markets underproduce public goods, and explain why the government has an interest in producing these public goods. (E)

Describe how the government taxes negative externalities (spillovers) and subsidizes positive externalities to resolve the inefficiencies they cause.

Describe the major revenue and expenditure categories in state and federal budgets and their respective proportions, and the challenges of achieving a balanced budget. (E)

Determine whether different types of taxes (e.g., income tax, sales tax, and Federal Income Contributions Act [FICA] tax including Social Security and Medicare) are progressive, proportional, or regressive. (E)

Define budget debt and budget deficit and distinguish between the two. Explain the effects of both on the economy. (E)

Explain measures of a country's economic performance such as gross domestic product (GDP), unemployment, and inflation.

Recognize that a country's overall level of income, employment, and prices are determined by rational spending and production decisions of households, firms, and government.

Explain the limitations of using GDP to measure economic welfare.

Identify the different causes of inflation (i.e., cost-push and demand-pull), and explain the impact of inflation on economic decisions. (E)

Explain the causes and effects of business cycles in a market economy.

Explain frictional, structural, cyclical, and seasonal unemployment, and analyze the impact of unemployment.

Explain the basic functions of money.

Explain the role financial institutions play among savers, borrowers, and investors. (E)

Demonstrate how banks create money through the principle of fractional reserve banking.

Describe the structure and functions of the Federal Reserve System. (E)

Explain how interest rates act as an incentive for savers and borrowers. (E)

Compare and contrast different types of financial investments. (E)

Demonstrate how supply and demand determine equilibrium price and quantity in the financial markets.

Define and explain fiscal and monetary policy. (E)

Explain the tools of fiscal and monetary policy. (E)

Analyze how the government uses fiscal policy to promote price stability, full employment, and economic growth.

Explain how the use of fiscal policy affects budget deficits or surpluses and the national debt.

Analyze how the Federal Reserve uses monetary policy to promote price stability, full employment, and economic growth. (E)

Define and explain the impact of trade barriers, such as quotas and tariffs, and analyze why countries erect them.

Compare and contrast the arguments for and against free trade.

Cultural Self-Awareness

Students describe and defend the appropriate terminology including but not limited to race, ethnicity, culture, cultural practices, bias, implicit bias, and critical consciousness.

Students identify and analyze their social, ethnic, racial, and cultural identities and examine societal perceptions and behaviors related to their own identities.

Students evaluate how society's responses to different social identities lead to access and/or barriers for ethnic and racial groups in relation to various societal institutions, including but not limited to education, healthcare, government, and industry.

Cultural Histories within the United States Context and Abroad

Students investigate the origins of various ethnic and racial groups, examining the historical influence of cultural, socio-political, and socio-economic contexts on those groups.

Students explain the reasons for various racial/ethnic groups' presence in the U.S. (indigenous, voluntary, or forcible).

Students compare and contrast how circumstances of ethnic/racial groups affected their treatment and experiences (indigenous, voluntary, forcible) as a response to the dominant culture of the time.

Students examine history and the present to make predictions about what role the dominant culture plays in the loss of racial/ethnic culture and cultural identity.

Contemporary Lived Experiences and Cultural Practices

Students identify and explore current traditions, rites, and norms of an ethnic or racial group(s) and how they have or are changing over time.

Students assess how social policies and economic forces offer privilege or systematic oppressions for racial/ethnic groups related to accessing social, political, and economic opportunities.

Historical and Contemporary Contributions

Students examine historical and contemporary economic, intellectual, social, cultural and political contributions to society by ethnic or racial group(s) or an individual within a group.

Students investigate how ethnic or racial group(s) and society address systematic oppressions through social movements, local, community, national, global advocacy, and individual champions.

Global Change

Sports, Recreation, and Tourism

States, Nations, and Nation-States

Human and Environmental Interactions: Resources, Hazards, and Health

Trade and Commerce

Conflict and Cooperation

Innovation and Revolutions

Urban Growth

Exploration, Conquest, Imperialism, and Post Colonialism

Population Characteristics, Distribution, and Migration

World Religions

Cultural Hearths

Use maps, timelines, and other graphic representations to identify and describe the location, distribution, and main events in the development of culture hearths in Asia, Mesoamerica, and North Africa.

Describe a Mesoamerican cultural hearth and explain the impact of the development of corn on people across the world.

Identify and describe factors that explain how the physical environment of Asia, Mesoamerica, and North Africa was modified over time by urban development.

Differentiate between a state (country) and a nation (a tightly-knit group of people who share a common culture). (E)

Define nation-states and identify modern-day examples of nation-states using a variety of data, such as atlases, written materials, and statistical source materials.

Analyze the human and/or geographic forces that unite and/or divide countries. Identify one or more countries that are examples of unification or division. (E)

Analyze one or more impacts of tourism on the physical and/or human environments of selected world regions. (E)

Analyze global climate change forecasts for different parts of Earth and identify one or more effects of these changes for humans.

Explain the concepts of linear and exponential growth, and explain one or more effects of rapid human population growth across the globe.

Identify one or more practical ways to reduce environmental footprints. (E)

Map the origin and development over time of world religions.

Define religious fundamentalism and identify a fundamentalist movement in contemporary times associated with the Western tradition.

Map the increasing and decreasing of the population distribution over time and note the population density of one or two regions.

Identify and describe a push-pull factor that resulted in the migration of people to the United States. (E)

Analyze one or more changes in human and/or physical environments that result from migration.

Give one or more examples of how the physical and/or human environments have changed due to population growth or decline. (E)

Describe population trends in the local community and suggest one or more ways these trends will affect the community in the future. (E)

Define the terms colonialism and/or imperialism and give one or more examples of colonialism or imperialism.

Ask and answer geographic and/or historical questions about the factors that cause new towns and growth of towns. Compare the factors involved in the location and growth of towns and cities for different time periods.

Describe the worldwide trend toward urbanization and how cities changed over time with the move to urbanization using a variety of texts (writing, maps, timelines, and/or other graphic representations). Identify factors such as locational advantages and disadvantages, changing transportation technologies, population growth, changing agricultural production, and the demands of industry on this trend. (E)

Distinguish between violent and non-violent revolution(s) and give one or more example(s) of each type of revolution.

Use a variety of texts (writing, maps, timelines, and/or other graphic representations) to show the origin and spread of specific innovations. Describe the impact of these innovations on the human and physical environments of the regions to which they spread.

Map the spread of art and/or scientific thought from their origins to other world regions.

Describe one similarity and one difference of the Industrial Revolution on developed countries with the economic processes acting upon less developed and developing countries in the contemporary world. (E)

Describe examples of conflict and cooperation among friends and/or family, and/or community, and/or countries, recognizing that conflict and cooperation among groups of people occur for a variety of reasons. (E)

Identify the physical and/or human factors and environmental consequences involved in conflict related to nationalist, racial, ethnic, religious, economic, political, and/or resources issues. (E)

Identify a global cooperative organization and describe the purpose of the organization.

Use maps to show the location of Earth’s resources and describe how the location of these resources affects international trade.

Prepare a graphic representation, such as a map or table, to identify the movement of a good and/or service across the U.S. and/or a region of the U.S. and/or Canada or Mexico and/or Europe or China. (E)

Describe the impact of global patterns of trade on the state and local community.

Use a map to identify one region in the world where a natural disaster has occurred frequently and describe how the physical and/or human environment has changed over time as a result of the natural disaster.

Identify one or more ways in which humans have used technology to modify the physical environment in order to settle areas in different world regions and describe the impact of these technologies on the physical or human environments affected. (E)

Identify the human and/or physical factors associated with the spread of an epidemic and/or pandemic over time and strategies for limiting the spread of diseases. (E)

Global Change

Sports, Recreation, and Tourism

States, Nations, and Nation-States

Human and Environmental Interactions: Resources, Hazards, and Health

Trade and Commerce

Conflict and Cooperation

Innovation and Revolutions

Urban Growth

Exploration, Conquest, Imperialism, and Post Colonialism

Population Characteristics, Distribution, and Migration

World Religions

Cultural Hearths

Use maps, timelines, and other graphic representations to identify and describe the location, distribution, and main events in the development of culture hearths in Asia, Mesoamerica, and North Africa.

Analyze agricultural hearths and exchanges of crops among regions. Evaluate the impact of agriculture on the subsequent development of cultural hearths in various regions of the world.

Identify and describe the factors that explain how the local and regional human and physical environments of selected culture hearths were modified over time in terms of such features as urban development and agricultural activities.

Differentiate between a state (country) and a nation, specifically focusing on the concepts of territorial control and self-determination of internal and foreign affairs, and analyze the relationship between nations and the states in which they lie.

Use a variety of data, such as atlases, written materials, and statistical source materials to identify countries of the world that are true nation-states, and draw conclusions about why certain regions of the world contain more nation-states than others.

Analyze the human and physical geographic forces that either bind and unite (centripetal forces) or divide (centrifugal forces) a country or countries. Predict the impact of these forces on the future of these countries, and analyze possible strategies that could be implemented to overcome the impact of centrifugal forces.

Analyze the impact of tourism on the physical and human environments of selected world regions. Predict the environmental impact of a continued growth in tourism in these regions.

Analyze global climate change forecasts for different parts of Earth and the implications of these changes for humans.

Explain the concepts of linear and exponential growth, and apply these concepts to geographical themes while analyzing the consequences of various human responses.

Evaluate the emerging trends toward reducing environmental footprints.

Map the development over time of world religions from their points of origin, and identify those that exhibit a high degree of local and/or international concentration.

Analyze and assess the rise of fundamentalist movements in the world's major religions during contemporary times (1980–present), and describe the relationships between religious fundamentalism and the secularism and modernism associated with the Western tradition.

Map and analyze the distribution of the world's human population for different time periods, noting the population characteristics and population density for specific regions.

Identify and describe the push-pull factors that resulted in the migration of human population over time, and detect changes in these factors.

Analyze the changes in population characteristics and physical and human environments that resulted from the migration of peoples within, between, and among world regions.

Give examples of and evaluate how the physical and human environments in different regions have changed over time due to significant population growth or decline.

Analyze population trends in the local community, and suggest the impact of these trends on the future of the community in relation to issues such as development, employment, health, cultural diversity, schools, political representation, and sanitation.

Analyze and assess ways that colonialism and imperialism have persisted and continue to evolve in the contemporary world.

Ask and answer geographic and historic questions about the origin and growth of towns, cities, and metropolitan areas in different regions of the world and in different time periods. Compare and contrast the factors involved in the location and growth of towns and cities for different time periods.

Describe, using a variety of texts (writing, maps, timelines, and/or other graphic representations), the worldwide trend toward urbanization and the changing function of cities. Assess the impact of factors such as locational advantages and disadvantages, changing transportation technologies, population growth, changing agricultural production, and the demands of industry on this trend.

Distinguish between violent and non-violent revolution(s). Use a variety of text (writing, maps, timelines and/or other graphic representations) to document the spread of political ideas that resulted from those revolutions to other regions of the world.

Use a variety of texts (writing, maps, timelines, and/or other graphic representations) to show the origin and spread of specific innovations. Assess the impact of these innovations on the human and physical environments of the regions to which they spread.

Map the spread of innovative art forms and scientific thought from their origins to other world regions. Analyze how the spread of these ideas influenced developments in art and science for different places and regions of the world.

Compare and contrast the impact of the Industrial Revolution on developed countries with the economic processes acting upon less developed and developing countries in the contemporary world.

Recognize that conflict and cooperation among groups of people occur for a variety of reasons, including nationalist, racial, ethnic, religious, political, economic, and resource concerns that generally involve agreements and disagreements related to territory on Earth's surface.

Analyze the physical and human factors involved in conflicts and violence related to nationalist, racial, ethnic, religious, economic, political, and/or resource issues in various parts of the world, over time. Assess the human and physical environmental consequences of the conflicts identified for study.

Prepare a variety of texts (writing, maps, timelines, and/or other graphic representations) to trace the development and geographic extent of a variety of regional and global cooperative organizations during different time periods. Describe their establishment and assess their success or lack of success, consequences for citizens, and the role of particular countries in achieving the goals the organizations were established to accomplish.

Use maps to show the location and distribution of Earth's resources, and analyze how this distribution affects trade between and among countries and regions.

Prepare graphic representations, such as maps, tables, and timelines, to describe the global movement of goods and services between and among countries and world regions over time. Analyze and assess the patterns and networks of economic interdependence or lack of interdependence.

Analyze the impact of changing global patterns of trade and commerce on the state and local community, and predict the impact of these patterns in the future.

Use maps to identify regions in the world where particular natural disasters occur frequently, and analyze how the physical and human environments have been modified over time in response to environmental threats. Assess the success of international aid to these disasters.

Identify and describe ways in which humans have used technology to modify the physical environment in order to settle areas in different world regions, and evaluate the impact of these technologies on the physical and human environments affected.

Distinguish and assess the human and physical factors associated with the spread of selected epidemics and/or pandemics over time, and propose strategies for limiting the spread of diseases.

Roles of Citizens in the United States

Relationship of the United States to Other Nations in World Affairs

Purposes, Principles, and Institutions of the Government of the United States

Foundations of Government in the United States

Nature of Politics and Government

Identify a role or activity of individuals in civic life (e.g., volunteering), political life (e.g., voting), or private life (e.g., personal interests). (E)

Identify the meanings of and relationship between the terms politics, government, and public policy.

Analyze functions or purposes of government found in the Preamble of the United States Constitution. (E)

Identify defining characteristics of different types of government, including representative democracy, monarchy, and totalitarianism. Compare and contrast to identify one similarity and one difference.

Identify characteristics of unitary, confederate, and federal systems of government. Compare and contrast to identify one similarity and one difference.

Identify an example of constitutionalism, rule of law, limited government, or popular sovereignty in the United States Constitution and how they protect the rights of individuals.

Give an example of how the United States Constitution establishes majority rule while protecting minority rights, or protects individual liberties. (E)

Identify events from the colonial, revolutionary, or Founding-era that led to the creation of the United States Constitution (1787) or Bill of Rights (1791).

Define compromise and give an example of compromise that arose during the Constitutional Convention (e.g., Three-Fifths Compromise or Great Compromise).

Analyze a founding document of the United States (Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, or Bill of Rights) and identify an example of a central idea on government, individual rights, or the common good.

Identify foundational rights of American government from the Founding-era documents (e.g., natural rights philosophy, popular sovereignty, representative democracy, federalism, or individual rights).

Identify how a shared American civic identity is based on commitment to foundational ideas in Founding-era documents.

Explain historical or contemporary examples of fundamental principles or values of American political or civil life (e.g., liberty, security, the common good, justice, equality, law and order, rights of individuals, diversity, popular sovereignty, or representative democracy).

Analyze the functions of political parties in elections and government at the national, state, or local levels of the federal system.

Identify why the Electoral College was created and explain its role in national elections today.

Identify one role of state or local governments in Indiana and explain how that role affects the lives of citizens. (E)

Describe the influence of the media or technology on public opinion and public policy. (E)

Analyze the United States Constitution and identify a characteristic in the United States government that defines it as a federal, presidential, constitutional, or representative democracy.

Identify examples of the constitutional principles of federalism, separation of powers, the system of checks and balances, or republican government in the United States or Indiana. (E)

Classify a given power in the United States Constitution or the Indiana Constitution as enumerated, implied, or denied.

Describe the separation and sharing of powers of the United States government or the Indiana government and how this provides a limited government. (E)

Identify the key steps in the legislative process of how a bill becomes a law in the United States.

Identify the procedures for amending the United States and Indiana Constitutions, and explain why it is so difficult to amend these Constitutions.

Describe a function of the judicial branch of the United States, and identify the principles of due process, judicial review, and/or an independent judiciary. (E)

Identify the steps in the electoral processes at the national, state, or local levels. (E)

Identify Benjamin Harrison and key events or characteristics of his presidency (e.g., his approach to the presidency, his relationship to the legislative branch, and his re-election defeat).

Identify powers the United States Constitution gives to the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government in the area of foreign affairs.

Identify a key world issue (e.g., political, cultural, demographic, economic, or environmental challenges) that affects United States foreign policy in a specific region of the world.

Describe how a specific foreign policy issue can impact local community or state interests.

Identify the legal meaning of citizenship in the United States, and explain the difference between citizenship in the United States and residency in Indiana. (E)

Describe roles or responsibilities of citizens in the United States. (E)

Identify and describe a civil or a constitutional right found in the United States Constitution or Bill of Rights and identify how a major landmark case of the Supreme Court concerning civil rights expanded individual rights or liberties. (E)

Identify examples of a constitutional limit on individual rights and reasons why the government would want to do this. (E)

Describe a key citizen action that can impact local, state, or federal government as either an individual or as a member of an interest group.

Explain how citizens in the United States participate in public elections as either voters or as supporters of candidates for public office. (E)

Describe a way individuals may contribute to the well-being of their communities or participate responsibly in the political process at local, state, or national levels of government.

Use a variety of sources to describe current American political issues.

Roles of Citizens in the United States

Relationship of the United States to Other Nations in World Affairs

Purposes, Principles, and Institutions of the Government of the United States

Foundations of Government in the United States

Nature of Politics and Government

Students understand the nature of citizenship, politics, and governments, understanding the rights and responsibilities of citizens and how these are part of local, state, and national government. Students examine how the United States Constitution protects rights and provides the structure and functions of various levels of government. Students examine how the United States interacts with other nations as well as the government's role in world affairs will be examined.

Define civic life, political life, and private life, and describe the activities of individuals in each of these spheres.

Define the terms and explain the relationship between politics, government, and public policy.

Interpret and analyze the purposes and functions of government found in the Preamble of the United States Constitution. (E)

Compare and contrast types of government including representative democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, totalitarianism, and anarchy.

Compare and contrast unitary, confederate, and federal systems of government.

Define and provide examples of constitutionalism, rule of law, limited government, and popular sovereignty in the United States Constitution, and explain the relationship of these constitutional principles to the protection of the rights of individuals. (E)

Evaluate how the United States Constitution establishes majority rule while protecting minority rights and balances the common good with individual liberties. (E)

Summarize the colonial, revolutionary, and Founding-era experiences and events that led to the writing, ratification, and implementation of the United States Constitution (1787) and Bill of Rights (1791).

Understand the concept of compromise and evaluate its application during the Constitutional Convention.

Analyze and interpret central ideas on government, individual rights, and the common good in founding documents of the United States. (E)

Explain the history and provide examples of foundational ideas of American government embedded in the Founding-era documents, such as natural rights philosophy, social contract, popular sovereignty, constitutionalism, representative democracy, political factions, federalism, and individual rights. (E)

Explain how a shared American civic identity is based on commitment to foundational ideas in Founding-era documents and how it has changed through subsequent periods of United States history to present day.

Explain the history and provide historical and contemporary examples of fundamental principles and values of American political and civic life, including liberty, security, the common good, justice, equality, law and order, rights of individuals, diversity, popular sovereignty, and representative democracy. (E)

Analyze the United States Constitution, and explain characteristics of government in the United States, which define it as a federal, presidential, constitutional, and representative democracy.

Examine the progression of political parties and their ideologies and the broad political spectrum in the American governmental system, and analyze their functions in elections and government at national, state, and local levels of the federal system. (E)

Explain and evaluate the original purpose and role of the Electoral College and its relevance today. (E)

Explain the organization of state and local governments in Indiana and analyze how they affect the lives of citizens.

Describe the influence of the media and technology on public opinion and public policy.

Explain the constitutional principles of federalism, separation of powers, the system of checks and balances, and republican government. Provide examples of these principles in the governments of the United States and Indiana. (E)

Compare and contrast the enumerated, implied, and denied powers in both the United States Constitution and the Indiana Constitution.

Explain the relationships among branches of the United States government and Indiana government, which involve separation and sharing of powers as a means to limited government. (E)

Explain how a bill becomes law in the legislative process of the United States and the state of Indiana. (E)

Describe the procedures for amending the United States and Indiana Constitutions, and analyze why it is so difficult to amend these Constitutions.

Analyze the functions of the judicial branch of the United States and Indiana governments with emphasis on the principles of due process, judicial review, and an independent judiciary. (E)

Explain the electoral process in terms of election laws and election systems on the national, state, and local level. (E)

Analyze the election of Benjamin Harrison, Indiana's only president, his approach to the presidency, his relationship to the legislative branch, and his re-election defeat, considering the effects of party politics and public opinion.

Analyze powers the United States Constitution gives to the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government in the area of foreign affairs.

Identify and explain world issues, including political, cultural, demographic, economic, and environmental challenges that affect the United States foreign policy in specific regions of the world.

Discuss specific foreign policy issues that impact local community and state interests. (E)

Define the legal meaning of citizenship in the United States, identify the requirements for citizenship in the United States and residency in Indiana, and differentiate between the criteria used for attaining both. (E)

Analyze the roles and responsibilities of citizens in Indiana and the United States.

Identify and describe the civil and constitutional rights found in the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, describe how they are expanded by decisions of the United States Supreme Court. Analyze and evaluate landmark cases of the Supreme Court concerning civil rights and liberties of individuals. (E)

Identify when it is constitutional for our government to limit the rights of individuals and explain the reasons why the government would want to do this. (E)

Explain and give examples of important citizen actions that can impact local, state, and federal government as individuals and members of interest groups.

Explain how citizens in the United States participate in public elections as voters and supporters of candidates for public office. (E)

Describe opportunities available to individuals to contribute to the well-being of their communities and participate responsibly in the political process at local, state, and national levels of government.

Use information from a variety of sources to describe and discuss current American political issues.

Historical Thinking

Post 9/11 United States

United States: 1980 to 2001

United States in Troubled Times: 1960 to 1980

Post War United States: 1945 to 1960

The United States and World War II: 1939 to 1945

Modern United States in Prosperity and Depression: 1920s and 1930s

Emergence of the Modern United States: 1897 to 1920

Development of the Industrial United States: 1870 to 1900

Early National Development: 1775 to 1877

Identify major themes from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, such as individual rights and limited government.

Identify the controversies pertaining to slavery and abolitionism.

Compare and contrast different views of historical events.

Compare primary and secondary resources related to the same event or issues of past historical events.

Identify cause and effect of historical events.

List at least one similarity and one difference between different interpretations of historical events.

Describe your point of view about a historical event and support it with a piece of historical evidence.

Identify the consequences of the industrial revolution, such as increased production and efficiency, growth of urban areas, and increased wages. (E)

Explain how the settlement of the west affected the Irish and Chinese immigrants.

Explain the causes of the Indian Wars in the West, and identify how the lives of Native Americans changed with the development of the West.

Identify how industrialization and immigration led to social movements such as labor unions and women's rights. (E)

Describe how the "separate but equal" ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson impacted the lives of African Americans. (E)

Identify the contributions of Benjamin Harrison to national policies such as the Sherman Anti -Trust Act, and creation of the National Forest Reserves.

Identify examples of American Imperialism.

Identify the origins, goals, achievements, and limitations of the Progressive Movement in addressing political, economic, and social reform.

Identify the role Muller v. Oregon played in women's rights in the workplace and how Schenk v. United States is used to limit the freedom of speech.

Identify important contributions of Upton Sinclair, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, and Ida Wells to social and cultural movements, including Harlem Renaissance, Women's suffrage, and labor movements. (E)

Identify the reasons why the United States became involved in WWI, such as unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmerman telegram. (E)

Identify the experiences of migrants from Europe, Asia, and the southern United States as they encountered and interacted with their new communities, including language barriers, ethnic neighborhoods, and poor wages.

Identify women’s role in the workforce in the 1920s. (E)

Explain how immigration led to new reform movements, Vigilante Groups, and the Red Scare.

Identify technological developments during the 1920s and explain their impact on rural and urban Americans.

Identify the causes of the Great Depression and identify two social/cultural impacts. (E)

Identify the economic impact of the Great Depression on all Americans including high unemployment rate, increased poverty, and increased number of bank failures. (E)

Identify at least one strength and one weakness of the Works Progress Administration and the National Recovery Act.

Identify how the Second New Deal brought about long-term effects of unemployment insurance, banking stability, and other social welfare programs. (E)

Identify how the bombing of Pearl Harbor led to the United States' entry into WWII. (E)

Identify key leaders and events from World War II.

Define Hitler's "Final Solution," and identify the Allied response to the Holocaust. (E)

Identify the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, or women during World War II. (E)

Identify the ways in which the government controlled prices, labor, or production during WWII.

Identify how WWII led to social changes, including FDRs banning of discrimination in the defense industry, the integration of the armed forces, and/or how the role of women in society changed during the war.

Identify the origins of the Cold War. (E)

Identify some of the challenges involved with enforcing the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ruling. (E)

Identify key economic and social changes in post WWII American life.

Identify how different groups of people asserted their social and civic rights in the years following World War II. (E)

Identify people and methods used (Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, and the Black Panthers) to bring about social justice during the Civil Rights Movement.

Identify major social and economic programs during the Kennedy-Johnson era (e.g., Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare and Medicaid).

Identify how new technology changed the lives of Americans from 1960 - 1980. (E)

Describe the significance of key decisions of the Warren Court.

Identify problems faced by minorities during the 1960s and 1970s and identify solutions to these problems. (E)

Identify how the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union changed from 1960 -1980.

Identify United States foreign policy regarding Africa, the Middle East, and China during the 1960s and 1970s.

Explain what happened in the Watergate Scandal.

List three of the social and political issues faced by Americans since 1980. (E)

Explain how technology has changed the lives of Americans since 1980, including NASA and the space programs and the internet. (E)

Describe how and why the cold war ended. (E)

Identify the effects of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States foreign and domestic policies, including the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Patriot Act, and increased travel security. (E)

Define Globalization and North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Define deindustrialization and identify a cause and consequence of deindustrialization in the United States after 1970.

Identify legislation which began to unravel the work of the New Deal and the Great Society. (E)

Identify the Supreme Courts use of judicial restraint during the John Roberts era as Chief Justice.

Identify how social media has changed the democratic process. (E)

Historical Thinking

Post 9/11 United States

United States: 1980 to 2001

United States in Troubled Times: 1960 to 1980

Post War United States: 1945 to 1960

The United States and World War II: 1939 to 1945

Modern United States in Prosperity and Depression: 1920s and 1930s

Emergence of the Modern United States: 1897 to 1920

Development of the Industrial United States: 1870 to 1900

Early National Development: 1775 to 1877

Students are expected to trace and analyze chronological periods and examine the significant themes and concepts in U.S. History. Students develop historical thinking and research skills using primary and secondary sources to explore topical issues to understand the cause for changes in the nation over time.

Read key documents from the Founding Era and analyze major ideas about government, individual rights, and the general welfare embedded in these documents.

Identify and tell the significance of controversies pertaining to slavery, abolitionism, and social reform movements.

Cultivate historical thinking, including the ability to evaluate competing explanations for historical change.

Locate and analyze primary sources and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past; discover possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary opinions.

Analyze multiple, unexpected, and complex causes and effects of events in the past.

Assess competing historical interpretations of a particular historical moment, event, or change.

Develop arguments, defended with historical evidence, which explain historical change.

Explain the causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution.

Analyze the factors associated with the development of the West and how these factors affected the lives of those who settled there, including Buffalo Soldiers, the Irish, and the Chinese. (E)

Articulate the causes and consequences of Indian wars in the West, and explain how the lives of Native Americans changed with the development of the West. (E)

Summarize the impact industrialization and immigration had on social movements of the era, including the contributions of specific individuals and groups.

Analyze the development of "separate but equal" policies culminating in the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case. Explain the historical significance of the denial of African American rights in the South and the effects of these policies in future years. (E)

Describe and assess the contribution of Indiana's only president, Benjamin Harrison, to national policies on environmental protection, business regulation, immigration, and civil rights.

Explain the debates surrounding America's entrance into global imperialism.

Explain the origins, goals, achievements, and limitations of the Progressive Movement in addressing political, economic, and social reform. (E)

Explain the constitutional significance of the following landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court: Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904), Muller v. Oregon (1908), Schenck v. United States (1919), and Abrams v. United States (1919).

Explain the importance of social and cultural movements within the Progressive Era, including significant individuals/groups such as Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, NAACP, muckrakers, and Upton Sinclair, and including movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, Women's Suffrage, labor movements, and socialist movement. (E)

Analyze the reasons why the United States became involved in World War I. (E)

Describe the experiences of migrants from Europe, Asia, and the southern United States as they encountered and interacted with their new communities.

Identify new cultural movements of the 1920s, including the emergence of women in the public sphere and the workplace. (E)

Assess the causes of the resurgence of social movements, reform movements, and vigilante groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Scare, and Prohibition.

Identify technological developments during the 1920s and explain their impact on rural and urban Americans.

Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and its social and cultural impacts. (E)

Assess the economic impact of the Great Depression on all Americans.

Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the First New Deal, including the Works Progress Administration and the National Recovery Act.

Explain the long-term effects of the Second New Deal, including its effects on agriculture, labor, social welfare, and banking. (E)

Identify and explain key events from Versailles to Pearl Harbor that resulted in the United States' entry into World War II. (E)

Identify key leaders and events from World War II, and explain the significance of each.

Describe Hitler's "final solution" policy, and explain the Allied responses to the Holocaust and war crimes. (E)

Explain the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, and women during World War II. (E)

Summarize the efforts the national government made to regulate production, labor, and prices during the war, and evaluate the success or failure of these efforts.

Explain the role of World War II as a catalyst for social change.

Explain the origins of the Cold War. (E)

Describe the challenges involved with the enforcement of desegregation directives in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954). (E)

Discuss key economic and social changes in post-World War II American life, including the Second Red Scare and its effects on American culture.

Explain the efforts of groups of African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and women to assert their social and civic rights in the years following World War II. (E)

Evaluate various methods and philosophies (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr., the Black Panthers, and Malcolm X) to bring about social justice during the Civil Rights Movement.

Assess the social and economic programs of the Kennedy-Johnson era, including policies and legal rulings.

Describe developing trends in science and technology, and explain how they impacted the lives of Americans during the period 1960 to 1980.

Identify and analyze the significance of key decisions of the Warren Court.

Identify the problems confronting different minorities during this period of economic and social change, and describe the solutions to these problems. (E)

Explain and analyze changing relations between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1960 to 1980. (E)

Explain and analyze U.S. foreign policy with regard to Africa, the Middle East, and China during the 1960s and 1970s.

Explain the constitutional, political, and cultural significance of the Watergate Scandal and the United States Supreme Court decision of United States v. Nixon.

Explain the significance of social, economic, and political issues during the period 1980 to the present and how these issues affected individuals and organizations. (E)

Describe developing trends in science and technology, and explain how they impact the lives of Americans today, including NASA and space programs, identification of DNA, the Internet, global climate change, and U.S. energy policy.

Explain how and why the Cold War came to an end and identify new obstacles to U.S. leadership in the world. (E)

Explain the background and effects of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on U.S. foreign and domestic policy. (E)

Analyze the impact of globalization on U.S. culture and U.S. economic, political, and foreign policy, including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Explain the causes and consequences of deindustrialization in the United States after 1970.

Explain the origins of legislation which began to unravel the work of the New Deal and the Great Society, including reforms in the areas of welfare, public housing, Social Security, and labor. (E)

Assess the decisions of the John Roberts Court, especially those which addressed the contests among individual citizens, workers, and corporations.

Reflect on the role of media and social media in the democratic process. (E)

Historical Thinking

An Era of Global Conflicts, Challenges, Controversies, and Changes: 1900 CE to Present

Revolutions, Nationalism, and Imperial Power: 1500 CE to 1900 CE

The Rise of Western Civilization and Global Interactions: 1300 CE to 1750 CE

Major Civilizations and Cultural Interactions: 600 to 1300 CE

Classical Civilizations: 1000 BCE to 600 CE

Ancient Cultures and Civilizations: 8000 BCE to 600 BCE

Describe and evaluate social, cultural, and economic changes of small agriculture communities which led to the development of large agricultural settlements, such as the movement from hunting and gathering societies to civilization.

Identify the key components that make up a civilization and the key differences between civilizations and how people organize themselves outside of civilizations.

Review the key elements of the development of early river valley civilizations in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River Valley, and Shang China.

Examine the development and characteristics of early empires, such as Assyria, Persia, Israel, Minoan, and Zhou.

Review the development and fundamental beliefs of major world religions and philosophies, including Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Trace the developments and achievements of the Qin and Han Dynasties.

Examine the development of Judaism and the civilization of Ancient Israel, including the origins of monotheism, the significance of the Exodus from Egypt, the Hebrew Bible and the Ten Commandments as the source of many moral and ethical traditions of Western civilization.

Examine the development of Greek civilization, including differing political and social structures, as well as conflicts such as the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.

Trace the changes that culminated in the end of the Republic and the formation of the Roman Empire.

Analyze the causes, conditions, and consequences of the decline and fall of the western part of the Roman Empire.

Examine the significant achievements of the Greeks and Romans and their impact on the modern world.

Examine the origins and major achievements of civilizations in India, such as the Mauryan and Gupta empires.

Compare and contrast the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism on civilization in India and Buddhism's diffusion throughout Asia.

Compare and contrast the influence of Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism on East Asian civilizations.

Analyze the impact of trade networks, such as the Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade network.

Examine the origins, rise, and spread of Islam, including the life of Muhammad, Islam's division into the Sunnis and Shiites, and Islam's early impact on West Asia, Europe, and North Africa.

Trace the spread of Islam and its impact throughout Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and Asia.

Explain the role of Christianity as a unifying force in medieval Europe.

Explain the cultural, political, economic, and religious causes of the Crusades and their consequences for Europe and Southwest Asia, including the growth in power of the monarchies in Europe.

Examine the key achievements of civilizations in Africa prior to European contact.

Compare and contrast the developments and achievements of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations.

Describe and explain the rise, expansion, and decline of the Mongol Empire and its influences on the early Russian Empire.

Examine the development of feudalism in Japan and its impact on Japanese society and government.

Trace the origins and developments of the European Renaissance and its impact throughout Western Europe.

Analyze the factors that led to the rise and spread of the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, as well as reforming movements in other religions, including the wars of religion.

Discuss the emergence of nation-states as well as the increased impact of the citizen as a result of the decline of the European medieval period.

Explain consequences of the conquests and colonization as a result of the worldwide voyages of exploration, including the transatlantic slave trade, Columbian Exchange, and the effects on native populations in the Americas.

Explain the key developments of the Scientific Revolution and its impact on the world.

Explain the key ideas of the Enlightenment in European history, and describe its impact upon political and religious thought and culture in Europe and the Americas, including the foundation of American government.

Examine the key causes, events, and consequences of the French Revolution including the rise and fall of Napoleon.

Examine the economic, social, and political changes caused by the Industrial Revolution and their impact on the development of political and economic theories.

Analyze the causes and consequences of European imperialism upon the indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Identify and explain the impact of nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and alliances on relationships between states.

Describe and analyze the global expansion of democracy and globalization in the late 20th century.

Investigate current global issues, such as terrorism, genocide, and environmental issues.

Trace major events and global consequences of World War I.

Explain the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Identify the causes (i.e., social, political, militaristic, and economic) and key events of World War II, and analyze the impact this war had on the global community.

Examine the causes, course, and effects of the Holocaust, including accounts of camp inmates, survivors, liberators, and perpetrators, and summarize world responses, including the Nuremberg Trials.

Explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War, and describe the role it played in ethnic or nationalistic conflicts in various parts of the world.

Describe the paths to decolonization and independence from colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Explain the origins of the modern State of Israel and the ongoing conflict with Palestine and the Arab World.

Trace the rise of communism in China including its foundations, the Cultural Revolution, and modern day developments.

Identify patterns of historical change and duration, and construct a representation that illustrates continuity and change.

Locate and analyze primary and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past.

Investigate and interpret multiple causations in analyzing historical actions, and analyze cause-and-effect relationships.

Explain issues and problems of the past by analyzing various interests and viewpoints of the participants involved.

Use technology and historical data in the process of conducting and presenting historical research.

Formulate and present a position or course of action on an issue by examining the underlying factors contributing to that issue, and support that position.