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2014 GED Assessment Targets Social Studies

CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT

ASSESSMENT TARGETS TEACHING NOTES AND RESOURCES

CG.a TYPES OF MODERN HISTORICAL GOVERNMENTS 1. 1. Direct democracy, representative democracy, parliamentary democracy, presidential democracy, monarchy and other types of government that contributed to the development of American constitutional democracy.

CG.b PRINCIPLES THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN 2. CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY 2. Natural rights philosophy 3. Popular sovereignty and consent of the governed 4. Constitutionalism 5. Majority rule and minority rights 6. Checks and balances 7. Separation of powers 8. Rule of law 9. Individual rights 10. Federalism

CG.c STRUCTURE AND DESIGN OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 3. 11. Structure, powers, and authority of the federal executive, judicial, and legislative branches 12. Individual government positions (e.g. president, speaker of the house, cabinet secretary, etc.) 13. Major powers and responsibilities of the federal and state governments 14. Shared powers 15. Governmental departments and agencies

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CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT (CONTINUED)

CG.d INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES 4. 16. The Bill of Rights 17. Personal and civil liberties of citizens

CG.e POLITICAL PARTIES, CAMPAIGNS, AND ELECTIONS IN AMERICAN POLITICS 5. 18. Political parties 19. Interest groups 20. Political campaigns, elections and the electoral process

CG.f CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC PARTY 6.

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USH.a KEY HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED AMERICAN 7. CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT 21. Key documents and the context and ideas that they signify (e.g. Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, Martin Luther King’s Letter from the Birmingham Jail, landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court, and other key documents)

USH.b REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY REPUBLIC PERIODS 8. 22. Revolutionary War 23. War of 1812 24. George Washington 25. Thomas Jefferson 26. Articles of Confederation 27. Manifest Destiny

USH.c CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION 9. 28. Slavery 29. Sectionalism 30. Civil War Amendments 31. Reconstruction policies

USH.d CIVIL RIGHTS 10. 32. Jim Crow laws 33. Women’s suffrage 34. Civil Rights Movement 35. Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education

USH.e EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AND POPULATION OF THE AMERICAS 11.

UNITED STATES HISTORY (CONTINUED)

USH.f WORLD WARS I & II 12. 36. Alliance system 37. Imperialism, nationalism, and militarism 38. Russian Revolution 39. Woodrow Wilson 40. Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations 41. Neutrality Acts 42. Isolationism 43. Allied and Axis Powers 44. Fascism, Nazism, and totalitarianism 45. The Holocaust 46. Japanese-American internment 47. Decolonization 48. GI Bill

USH.g THE COLD WAR 13. 49. Communism and capitalism 50. NATO and the Warsaw Pact 51. U.S. maturation as an international power 52. Division of Germany, Berlin Blockade and Airlift 53. Truman Doctrine 54. Marshall Plan 55. Lyndon B. Johnson and The Great Society 56. Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal

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USH.h AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 9/11 14.

GEOGRAPHY

G.a DEVELOPMENT OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS 15.

G.b RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETAL 16. DEVELOPMENT 58. Nationhood and statehood 59. Sustainability 60. Technology 61. Natural resources 62. Human changes to the environment

G.c BORDERS BETWEEN PEOPLES AND NATIONS 17. 63. Concepts of region and place 64. Natural and cultural diversity 65. Geographic tools and skills

G.d HUMAN MIGRATION 18. 66. Immigration, emigration and diaspora 67. Culture, cultural diffusion and assimilation 68. Population trends and issues

69. Rural and urban settlement

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E.a KEY ECONOMIC EVENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED AMERICAN GOVERNMENT 19. AND POLICIES

E.b RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FREEDOMS 20.

E.c FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC CONCEPTS 21. 70. Markets 71. Incentives 72. Monopoly and competition 73. Labor and capital 74. Opportunity cost 75. Profit 76. Entrepreneurship 77. Comparative advantage 78. Specialization 79. Productivity 80. Interdependence

ECONOMICS (CONTINUED)

E.d MICROECONOMICS AND MACROECONOMICS 22. 81. Supply, demand and price 82. Individual choice 83. Institutions 84. Fiscal and monetary policy 85. Regulation and costs of government policies 86. Investment 87. Government and market failures 88. Inflation and deflation 89. GDP 90. Unemployment 91. Tariffs

E.e CONSUMER ECONOMICS 23. 92. Types of credit 93. Savings and banking 94. Consumer credit laws

E.f ECONOMIC CAUSES AND IMPACTS OF WARS 24.

E.g ECONOMIC DRIVERS OF EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION 25.

E.h SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS 26.

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