Make generalizations about the reasons for regional differences in colonial America.

Describe how the French and Indian War affected British policy toward the colonies and subsequent colonial dissatisfaction with the new [...]

Describe the causes and effects of events such as the Stamp Act, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and [...]

Using an event from the Revolutionary era, explain how British and colonial views on authority and the use of power [...]

Describe the role of the First and Second Continental Congresses in unifying the colonies.

Use the Declaration of Independence to explain why many colonists wanted to separate from Great Britain and why they believed [...]

Identify the role that key individuals played in leading the colonists to revolution, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, [...]

Describe how colonial experiences with self-government and ideas about government influenced the decision to declare independence.

Explain how price affects decisions about purchasing goods and services.

Explain how specialization and division of labor increase productivity.

Explain how competition among buyers results in higher prices, and competition among sellers results in lower prices.

Describe the role of money in the exchange of goods and services.

List goods and services governments provide in a market economy and explain how these goods and services are funded.

Explain how changes in the United States economy impact levels of employment and unemployment.

Identify advantages and disadvantages of global competition.

Identify public issues in the United States that influence the daily lives of its citizens.

Use graphic data and other sources to analyze information about a public issue in the United States and evaluate alternative [...]

Give examples of how conflicts over Democratic Values lead people to differ on resolutions to a public policy issue in [...]

Develop and implement an action plan and know how, when, and where to address or inform others about a public [...]

Participate in projects to help or inform others.

Use maps to locate peoples in the Eastern Woodland (the Woodland Peoples east of the Mississippi River), desert Southwest, the [...]

Compare how Indigenous Peoples in the Eastern Woodland and another tribal region adapted to or modified the environment.

Describe Eastern Woodland life with respect to governmental and family structures, trade, and their relationship to the land.

Explain the technological and political developments that made sea exploration possible.

Use case studies of individual explorers and stories of life in Europe to compare the goals, obstacles, motivations, and consequences [...]

Use maps to locate the major regions of Africa (North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa).

Describe the life and cultural development of people living in West Africa before the 16th century with respect to economic [...]

Describe the impact of immigration to the United States on the cultural development of different places or regions of the [...]

Describe some of the movements of resources, goods, people, and information to, from, or within the United States, and explain [...]

Assess the positive and negative consequences of human activities on the physical environment of the United States and identify the [...]

Identify questions political scientists ask in examining the United States.

Describe the purposes of government as identified in the Preamble of the Constitution.

Explain how the principles of popular sovereignty, rule of law, checks and balances, separation of powers, and individual rights serve [...]

Describe how rights guaranteed by the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, and Democratic Values are involved in everyday situations.

Give examples of ways the Constitution limits the powers of the federal government.

Give examples of powers exercised by the federal government, tribal governments and state governments.

Describe the organizational structure of the federal government in the United States (legislative, executive, and judicial branches).

Describe how the powers of the federal government are separated among the branches.

Give examples of how the system of checks and balances limits the power of the federal government.

Describe how the President, members of the Congress, Supreme Court Justices are elected or appointed.

Explain how the federal government uses taxes and spending to serve the purposes of the government.

Explain the responsibilities of members of American society.

Explain rights of citizenship, why rights have limits, and the relationships between rights and responsibilities.

Describe ways in which people can work together to promote the values and principles of American democracy.

Identify a good or service produced in the United States and apply the three economic questions all economies must address.

Describe characteristics of a market economy.

Describe how positive and negative incentives influence behavior in a market economy.

Use graphic data and other sources to analyze information about a public issue in Michigan and evaluate alternative resolutions.

Give examples of how conflicts over Democratic Values lead people to differ on resolutions to a public policy issue in [...]

Compose a paragraph expressing a position on a public policy issue in Michigan and justify the position with a reasoned [...]