U.S. and South Carolina Social Studies -- Grades 11-12

Government/Economics

I. Time, Continuity and Change: History

12.1 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of the major developments in the United States and South Carolina from the end of Reconstruction through World War II (circa 1945). The student should be able to

12.1.1 Explain how the rise of corporations, heavy industry and mechanized farming transformed the American people in the late 1800's.
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  

12.1.2 Interpret the immigration patterns from 1870 to circa 1945.
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  

12.1.3 Describe how new social patterns, conflicts and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity.
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  

12.1.4 Analyze the rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes.
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  

12.1.5 Evaluate government policies toward Native Americans and their responses.
• Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1.asp
  
• War and Peace with Powhatan's People
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2e.asp
  
• Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1f.asp
  
• U.S. Military Defeat; Indian Victory in the West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6d.asp
  
• Native American Resilience and Violence in the West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6e.asp
  
• Native American Resistance in the Trans-Appalachian West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9d.asp
  
• The Trail of Tears -- The Indian Removals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1f.asp
  
• Closing the Frontier AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/5.asp
  

12.1.6 Examine the changing role of women in the political and social context.
• 'Republican Motherhood'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1e.asp
  
• New Roles for White Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10e.asp
  
• The Emergence of 'Women's Sphere'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2e.asp
  
• The Emergence of 'Women's Sphere'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2e.asp
  
• Women in the Gilded Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/4c.asp
  
• Women's Suffrage at Last
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7c.asp
  
• Modern Feminism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10a.asp
  
• The Fight for Reproductive Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10b.asp
  
• The Equal Rights Amendment
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10c.asp
  
• Roe v. Wade and Its Impact
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10d.asp
  

12.1.6 Analyze the changing role of the United States in world affairs to World War I.
• Seeking Empire AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/9.asp
  
• America in the First World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  

12.1.7 Assess how Progressives and others addressed problems of industrial capitalism, urbanization and political corruption.
• Progressives in the White House AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/8.asp
  

12.1.8 Assess the causes, course and effects of World War I.
• America in the First World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  

12.1.9 Examine social tensions and their consequences in the post World War I era.
• The Fight Against 'Demon Rum'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11b.asp
  
• Flappers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11d.asp
  
• The Harlem Renaissance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11e.asp
  
• Old Values vs. New Values AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12.asp
  

12.1.11 Analyze the emergence of a modern capitalist economy in the 1920's.
• A Consumer Economy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11f.asp
  

12.1.12 Assess how new cultural movements reflected and changed American society in the post World War I period.
• The Decade That Roared AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11.asp
  
• Old Values vs. New Values AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12.asp
  

12.1.13 Describe developments in political and international affairs in the 1920's.
• The Monkey Trial
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12b.asp
  

12.1.14 Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and how it affected American society.
• The Great Depression AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/1.asp
  

12.1.15 Evaluate how the New Deal addressed the Great Depression and transformed American society.
• The New Deal AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/2.asp
  

12.1.16 Examine changes in everyday life in response to technological and scientific advancement.
• The Age of the Automobile
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11a.asp
  
• Radio Fever
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11g.asp
  
• Fads and Heroes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11h.asp
  

12.1.17 Describe the causes and course of World War II, including the Holocaust, the character of the war at home and abroad and its reshaping of the United States role in world affairs.
• The Road to Pearl Harbor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3.asp
  
• America in the Second World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4.asp
  

12.2.1 Explain the economic boom and the social and cultural transformations of postwar United States.
• Postwar Challenges AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5.asp
  
• The 1950s: Happy Days AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6.asp
  
• A New Civil Rights Movement AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7.asp
  
• The Vietnam War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8.asp
  
• Politics from Camelot to Watergate AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/9.asp
  
• Shaping a New America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10.asp
  
• A Time of Malaise AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/11.asp
  
• The Reagan Years AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12.asp
  
• Toward a New Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13.asp
  

12.2.2 Describe how postwar science augmented the nation's economic strength, transformed daily life and influenced the world economy.
• Postwar Challenges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5.asp
  
• Land of Television
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6c.asp
  
• Living in the Information Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13d.asp
  

12.2.3 Analyze the effects of the postwar extension of the New Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society.

12.2.4 Describe how the Cold War and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam influenced domestic and international politics.

• The Korean War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5e.asp
  
• The Vietnam War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8.asp
  
• Triangular Diplomacy: U.S., USSR, and China
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/9g.asp
  

12.2.5 Evaluate the struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil liberties.
• A New Civil Rights Movement AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7.asp
  

12.2.6 Assess developments in domestic politics from 1968 to the present.
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  

12.2.7 Evaluate economic, social and cultural developments in contemporary United States, 1968 to the present.
• Years of Escalation: 1965-68
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8b.asp
  
• The Tet Offensive
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8c.asp
  
• The Antiwar Movement
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8d.asp
  
• Years of Withdrawal
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8e.asp
  
• Politics from Camelot to Watergate AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/9.asp
  
• Shaping a New America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10.asp
  
• A Time of Malaise AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/11.asp
  
• The Reagan Years AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12.asp
  
• Toward a New Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13.asp
  

12.2.8 Assess developments in foreign policy from 1968 to the end of the Cold War.
• Years of Escalation: 1965-68
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8b.asp
  
• The Tet Offensive
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8c.asp
  
• The Antiwar Movement
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8d.asp
  
• Years of Withdrawal
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8e.asp
  
• Triangular Diplomacy: U.S., USSR, and China
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/9g.asp
  
• Foreign Woes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/11c.asp
  
• Foreign and Domestic Entanglements
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12c.asp
  

12.2.9 Describe the challenges facing the United States at home and abroad in the post-Cold War era.
• The End of the Cold War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12e.asp
  
• Toward a New Millennium AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13.asp
  

II. Power, Authority and Governance: Government/Political Science

12.3 The learner will demonstrate an understanding of government, its origins and functions, including civic life, politics and government. The student should be able to

12.3.1 Take and defend positions concerning the necessity and the purposes of government.
• The Nature of Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/1.asp
  
• Comparative Political and Economic Systems
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13.asp
  
• Comparing Governments
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13a.asp
  

12.3.2 Analyze the essential characteristics of limited and unlimited governments.
• Types of Government
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/1b.asp
  
• Comparing Governments
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13a.asp
  

12.3.3 Compare and contrast the "rule of law" and the "rule of man"-- explain how the rule of law protects individual rights and the common good.
• Types of Government
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/1b.asp
  

12.3.4 Explain the various purposes that constitutions serve.
• Creating the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2c.asp
  

12.3.5 Identify alternative uses of the term constitution.

12.3.6 Explain the advantages and disadvantages of confederal, federal and unitary systems of government.

• Foundations of American Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2.asp
  
• Federalism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3.asp
  
• State and Local Governments AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/12.asp
  
• Comparative Political and Economic Systems AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13.asp
  

12.3.7 Evaluate, take and defend positions on how well alternative forms of representation serve the purposes of constitutional government.
• Interest Groups
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5c.asp
  

12.4.1 Explain the essential ideas of American Constitutional government as expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers and other historic documents.
• The Nature of Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/1.asp
  
• Foundations of American Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2.asp
  
• Federalism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3.asp
  

12.4.2 Identify opportunities for individuals to volunteer in their own schools and communities.

12.4.3 Explain the conditions that are essential for the growth of a constitutional government.

12.4.4 Explain important factors that have helped shape American democracy, including but not limited to religious freedom, a history of slavery, effects of a frontier and a market economy.

• First Amendment Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10b.asp
  

12.4.5 Explain the many forms of diversity in American society and why conflicts have arisen from diversity.

12.4.6 Assess the ways conflicts about diversity can be resolved in a peaceful manner that respects individual rights and promotes the common good.

12.4.7 Describe the character of American political conflict and explain factors that usually prevent violence or that lower its intensity.

12.4.8 Evaluate, take and defend positions on issues in which fundamental values and principles are in conflict, including but not limited to conflicts between liberty and quality and conflicts between individual rights and the need to maintain social stability.

• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  

12.4.9 Evaluate, take and defend positions on current issues involving constitutional protection of individual rights.
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  

12.4.10 Identify some important American ideals and explain, using historical and contemporary examples, discrepancies between American ideals and the realities of political and social life.
• American Government PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/index.asp
  

12.4.11 Identify and give examples of ways in which discrepancies between the reality and the ideals of American constitutional democracy can be reduced by individual action, social action and political action.

12.5.1 Evaluate, take and defend positions on issues regarding the distribution of powers and responsibilities within the federal system.
• Creating the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2c.asp
  
• Federalism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3.asp
  
• Congress: The People's Branch? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/6.asp
  
• The Presidency: The Leadership Branch? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/7.asp
  
• The Bureaucracy: The Real Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/8.asp
  
• The Judicial Branch AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/9.asp
  
• State and Local Governments AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/12.asp
  

12.5.2 Examine the relationship between taxation and government.
• Economic Policy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11c.asp
  
• Financing State and Local Government
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/12b.asp
  

12.5.3 Explain why states have constitutions, their purposes and the relationship of state constitutions to the federal constitution.
• State and Local Governments
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/12.asp
  

12.5.4 Analyze the organization and major responsibilities of state and local government.
• State and Local Governments AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/12.asp
  

12.5.5 Explain the importance of law in the American constitutional system.

12.5.6 Identify representatives in the legislative branches as well as the heads of the executive branches of their local, state and national governments.

12.5.7 Assess and apply criteria useful in evaluating rules and laws, including but not limited to fairness, protection of individual rights and promotion of the common good.

12.5.8 Define the concept of due process of law and explain the importance to individuals and society.

• Crime and Due Process
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10c.asp
  

12.5.9 Explain what is meant by the public agenda and explain how it is set.
• Policy Making: Political Interactions
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11.asp
  

12.5.9 Evaluate, take and defend positions on the influence of the media on American political life.
• Interest Groups
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5c.asp
  
• The Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5d.asp
  
• The Internet in Politics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5e.asp
  

12.5.10 Analyze how political parties, campaigns and elections provide opportunities for citizens to participate in the political process.
• Political Parties
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5a.asp
  
• Campaigns and Elections
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5b.asp
  

12.5.11 Describe the historical and contemporary roles of prominent associations and groups in local, state, or national politics.
• Interest Groups
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5c.asp
  

12.5.12 Define public policy and identify examples at local, state and national levels.
• State and Local Governments AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/12.asp
  
• Policy Making: Political Interactions
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11.asp
  
• Social and Regulatory Policy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11d.asp
  

12.5.13 Explain how citizens can monitor and influence the formation and implementation of public policies.
• American Political Attitudes and Participation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4.asp
  
• How Do Citizens Connect With Their Government? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5.asp
  

12.6.1 Explain how the world is organized politically into nations and states.
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

12.6.2 Describe the means that nation-states use to interact with one another.
• Foreign Policy: What Now?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11a.asp
  
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

12.6.3 Analyze how U.S. foreign policy is formulated and the means by which it is carried out.
• Foreign Policy: What Now?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11a.asp
  

12.6. 4 Identify important current foreign policy issues and evaluate the means the United States is using to deal with them.
• Foreign Policy: What Now?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11a.asp
  
• Comparative Political and Economic Systems
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13.asp
  

12.6.5 Explain the role of major international organizations in the world today.
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

12.6.6 Describe the influence of American political ideas on other nations.
• Comparative Political and Economic Systems AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13.asp
  

12.6.7 Describe the impact of other nations' political ideas on the United States.
• Comparative Political and Economic Systems AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13.asp
  

12.6.8 Describe the impact of significant political, demographic, environmental and technological trends in the world.
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

12.7.1 Explain the important characteristics of citizenship in the United States.
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  
• Citizenship Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10d.asp
  

12.7.2 Evaluate the criteria established by the naturalization laws.
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  
• Citizenship Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10d.asp
  

12.7.3 Identify the major documentary sources of personal, political and economic rights.
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2d.asp
  

12.7.4 Evaluate, take and defend positions on issues involving personal, political and economic rights.
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  

12.7.5 Explain the meaning of political rights as distinguished from personal rights.
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  

12.7.6 Explain why it may be necessary to limit personal rights and identify criteria that may be used to identify the circumstances under which such limitations may be justified.
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  

12.7.7 Evaluate the importance of commonly held personal responsibilities to life in a democracy.

12.7.8 Evaluate the importance of commonly held civic responsibilities to life in a democracy.

• American Political Attitudes and Participation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4.asp
  
• How Do Citizens Connect With Their Government? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5.asp
  

12.7.9 Identify examples of individual and public goals and explain how participation in civic and political life can help attain them.
• Participating in Government
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4d.asp
  

12.7.10 Explain how Americans can monitor and influence politics and government at the local, state and national levels.
• American Political Attitudes and Participation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4.asp
  

12.7.11 Evaluate the importance of political leadership and public service in a constitutional democracy.
• The Internet in Politics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5e.asp
  

12.7.12 Explain why becoming knowledgeable about public affairs and the values and principles of American constitutional democracy and communicating that knowledge to others are important forms of participation.
• American Government PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/index.asp
  

12.7.13 Cite examples of how technology can be used to promote effective citizenship. (e.g., the role of technology in voting, obtaining information about candidates, governmental issues, etc.)
• The Media
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5d.asp
  
• The Internet in Politics
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5e.asp