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Grade 12 · Social studies

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Social studies · 2018 framework

American Government

  1. 01Identify opportunities for civic engagement within government structures and through parties, interest groups and the mediaExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 02Analyze issues through the critical use of credible sources and explain how persuasion, compromise, consensus building and negotiation serve the democratic processExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 03Explain how the basic principles of the U.S. Constitution define a federal republic, its structure, its powers and its relationship with the governedExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 04Analyze how the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers framed the ratification debate and how the Bill of Rights was drafted in response to itExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 05Explain how amendments, Supreme Court decisions, legislation and informal practices have changed constitutional government, including amendments that altered the structure and functions of the federal governmentExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 06Analyze how the Reconstruction Amendments extended constitutional protections to African Americans and how later amendments provided suffrage for disenfranchised groupsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 07Explain how the three branches create and implement law and public policy, and analyze how the political process drives their interaction on current issuesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 08Analyze rights that protect people from undue governmental interference, the responsibilities that come with them, and the historical struggle between majority rule and minority rightsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 09Compare the Ohio Constitution with the U.S. Constitution, explain why Ohio changed its constitution in 1851, and describe how individuals assist state and local governments with controversial community problemsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 10Identify the entities in all three branches and at every level that address domestic and international policy issues, and explain how individuals and organizations help determine public policyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  11. 11Explain how the federal government uses spending and tax policy and regulation, and how the Federal Reserve uses monetary tools, to moderate the business cycle and foster growthExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

American History

  1. 12Evaluate the credibility of primary and secondary sources, build an evidence-based thesis, and analyze cause, effect, sequence and correlationExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 13Explain how the Declaration of Independence, the Northwest Ordinance and the Constitution define the rights and role of the peopleExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 14Explain how the Federalist and Anti-Federalist debate over individual protections and limits on government power produced the Bill of RightsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 15Explain how corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovation transformed an agrarian economy into an urban industrial societyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 16Explain how industrialization expanded the workforce and why labor organizations grew amid unregulated conditions, laissez-faire policy and violenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 17Explain how immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life, 1870-1920Explanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 18Explain how continued western settlement intensified conflict with American Indian nations and reinforced the reservation systemExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 19Explain how old political and social structures reemerged after Reconstruction and racial discrimination was institutionalizedExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 20Explain how Progressive era reforms addressed the ills of industrial capitalism, urbanization and political corruptionExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 21Explain how overseas expansion, the Spanish-American War and World War I made the United States a world powerExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  11. 22Explain American peace efforts after World War I and how the Versailles Treaty and League of Nations debate led the United States to limit its international roleExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  12. 23Explain how racial intolerance, anti-immigrant attitudes and the Red Scare contributed to social unrest after World War IExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  13. 24Analyze how a higher standard of living and new technology changed American culture and created tensions in the 1920sExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  14. 25Explain how the Harlem Renaissance, African-American migration, women's suffrage and Prohibition contributed to social changeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  15. 26Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and explain how the role of the federal government expanded in responseExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  16. 27Explain how the United States moved away from intervention in the Western Hemisphere and kept an isolationist approach to Europe and Asia in the 1930sExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  17. 28Analyze how mobilization in World War II changed American society and how marginalized groups served while protesting unfair treatmentExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  18. 29Explain how atomic weapons began the nuclear age and how the United States adopted containment in the early Cold WarExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  19. 30Analyze the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism, and explain how the Cold War and the Korean and Vietnam wars influenced domestic and international politicsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  20. 31Analyze the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights after World War IIExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  21. 32Explain how the postwar boom, science and technology, suburbanization, Sun Belt migration and the 1965 Immigration Act changed American life and politicsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  22. 33Analyze debates over the role of government and explain how globalization and the shift to services changed the American economyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  23. 34Explain how the Cold War ended and analyze the political, security, economic and foreign-policy challenges the United States has faced sinceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Contemporary World Issues

  1. 35Explain how trade, alliances, treaties and international organizations increase the interconnectedness of nations and peoplesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 36Analyze how advances in communications technology affect the sharing of information across national and cultural bordersExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 37Evaluate how media messages are constructed for a purpose and assess how effective communicators address diverse audiencesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 38Assess world events, deliberate civilly and influence public processes, then plan and evaluate civic action on a global issueExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 39Explain how individuals can participate through non-governmental organizations to help address humanitarian needsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 40Explain how beliefs about civil and human rights vary among systems and how national interests produce conflict and cooperation over injustices against minority groupsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 41Explain how modern instances of genocide and ethnic cleansing raise questions about the responsibilities of participants and non-participantsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 42Evaluate how decisions about human activities affect current and future generations, and how perspectives shape sustainability issuesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 43Explain how international associations and nongovernmental organizations enable collaboration on sustainability issues at local, national and international levelsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 44Analyze how technology influences economic, political, ethical and social issues and weigh the trade-offs and consequences of technological decisionsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  11. 45Explain what nations seek to secure, what maintaining security costs, and how diplomacy and cooperation mitigate conflictExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  12. 46Evaluate how individuals and organizations work within or outside established systems of power to influence securityExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  13. 47Analyze who gains and who loses in the global economy and how the distribution of wealth and economic power among countries changes over timeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  14. 48Explain how trade agreements, multinational organizations, embargoes and protectionism impact markets, and how interdependence spreads economic circumstances between countriesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Economics Financial Literacy

  1. 49Analyze multiple sources of economic data and read bank, stock market and mutual fund reports to make personal finance decisionsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 50Explain scarcity and opportunity cost and compare how traditional, market, command and mixed systems allocate limited resourcesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 51Explain how supply and demand changes adjust market prices and how competition among sellers and buyers allocates goodsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 52Assess national economic well-being with government indicators and analyze intended and unintended consequences of economic policyExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 53Use comparative advantage to explain the gains from trade and analyze how tariffs, quotas, subsidies and trade agreements affect international tradeExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 54Explain the factors that determine income and read an employee earnings statement from gross wages to net payExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 55Make financial decisions by weighing costs and benefits, build a personal financial plan and budget, and compare payment methodsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 56Explain how saving and investing build wealth through compound growth and how savings serve as a buffer against economic hardshipExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 57Compare the costs and benefits of saving and investing alternatives and the institutions that provide certificates of deposit, stocks, bonds and mutual fundsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 58Compare the costs and benefits of credit from different financial institutions, manage credit and debt to maintain creditworthiness, and explain consumer protection lawsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  11. 59Explain how property, liability, health, disability and life insurance manage risk, and take steps to safeguard personal financial informationExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

Modern World History

  1. 60Examine the credibility of primary and secondary sources, build a thesis from evidence, and analyze multiple causationExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 61Explain how the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment ideas challenged religious authority, absolute rule and mercantilismExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 62Explain how the American and French Revolutions influenced Latin American revolutions for independenceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 63Analyze the social, political and economic effects of industrialization on Western Europe and the worldExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 64Analyze the roots and methods of imperialism and how colonizers and the colonized viewed its consequencesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 65Evaluate how advances in technology, communication and transportation improved lives and also had negative consequencesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 66Analyze how militarism, imperialism, nationalism and alliances caused World War IExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 67Trace how World War I and the worldwide depression led to the Russian Revolution, totalitarianism, Axis expansion, appeasement and World War IIExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 68Explain how oppression and discrimination resulted in the Armenian Genocide during World War I and the Holocaust during World War IIExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 69Explain how World War II devastated Europe and Asia, led to the occupation of Eastern Europe and Japan, and began the atomic ageExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  11. 70Explain how the United States and the Soviet Union competed for global influence and how postwar treaties changed borders and created multinational organizationsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  12. 71Analyze nationalist movements in Africa and Southeast Asia, regional conflicts in the Middle East, and expanded rights for women and indigenous peoplesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  13. 72Explain the challenges created by the break-up of the Soviet Union, post-Cold War regional and ethnic conflicts, and struggles for self-governanceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  14. 73Explain how emerging economic powers and technology created an interdependent global economy, and why nuclear proliferation challenges world peaceExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  15. 74Explain how population growth, longer life expectancy and mass migration create challenges, and how environmental concerns produced a movement for sustainabilityExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers

World Geography

  1. 75Evaluate how the properties of maps, globes and other geographic representations affect what they can showExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  2. 76Use geographic representations and geospatial technologies to investigate, analyze and communicate a geographic problemExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  3. 77Trace how human modification of the physical environment in one place leads to changes in other placesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  4. 78Analyze the strategies societies use to adapt to the opportunities and constraints of the physical environmentExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  5. 79Explain how physical processes form and distribute resources, and weigh the costs and benefits of using renewable, nonrenewable and flow resourcesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  6. 80Explain how cultural characteristics affect the ways people interact with the environmentExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  7. 81Analyze the physical, cultural, economic and political factors behind human migrations and their impacts on physical and human systemsExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  8. 82Explain how trade and communication create interdependence among regions and reduce the effect of time on distributing goods, services and informationExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  9. 83Explain how criteria define regions and how regions and their characteristics change over time with consequencesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  10. 84Analyze interconnections within and among regions and use regions to analyze global geographic issuesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  11. 85Explain how settlement patterns change in function, size and spatial pattern, and evaluate the opportunities and challenges of urbanizationExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers
  12. 86Explain how globalization has shaped new ideas and entities and analyze its cultural, economic, physical and political consequencesExplanation · illustration · worked examples · practice and answers