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2014 GED Assessment Targets
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CIVICS AND GOVERNMENT
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CG.a TYPES OF MODERN HISTORICAL GOVERNMENTS
1.
TEACHING NOTES AND RESOURCES
2.
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 3.
AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY
1.
Natural rights philosophy
2.
Popular sovereignty and consent of the governed
3.
Constitutionalism
4.
Majority rule and minority rights
5.
Checks and balances
6.
Separation of powers
7.
Rule of law
8.
Individual rights
9.
Federalism
CG.c STRUCTURE AND DESIGN OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
4.
1.
Structure, powers, and authority of the federal executive,
judicial, and legislative branches
2.
Individual government positions (e.g. president, speaker of
the house, cabinet secretary, etc.)
3.
Major powers and responsibilities of the federal and state
governments
4.
Shared powers
5.
Governmental departments and agencies
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CG.d INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES
1.
The Bill of Rights
2.
Personal and civil liberties of citizens
TEACHING NOTES AND RESOURCES
5.
CG.e POLITICAL PARTIES, CAMPAIGNS, AND ELECTIONS IN AMERICAN6.
POLITICS
1.
Political parties
2.
Interest groups
3.
Political campaigns, elections and the electoral process
CG.f CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC PARTY
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UNITED STATES HISTORY
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USH.a KEY HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED AMERICAN 8.
CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
1.
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
1.
Revolutionary War
2.
War of 1812
3.
George Washington
4.
Thomas Jefferson
5.
Articles of Confederation
6.
Manifest Destiny
USH.c CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
1.
Slavery
2.
Sectionalism
3.
Civil War Amendments
4.
Reconstruction policies
USH.d CIVIL RIGHTS
1.
Jim Crow laws
2.
Women’s suffrage
3.
Civil Rights Movement
4.
Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education
9.
10.
11.
USH.e EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AND POPULATION OF THE AMERICAS12.
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USH.f WORLD WARS I & II
1.
Alliance system
2.
Imperialism, nationalism, and militarism
3.
Russian Revolution
4.
Woodrow Wilson
5.
Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
6.
Neutrality Acts
7.
Isolationism
8.
Allied and Axis Powers
9.
Fascism, Nazism, and totalitarianism
TEACHING NOTES AND RESOURCES
13.
10. The Holocaust
11. Japanese-American internment
12. Decolonization
13. GI Bill
USH.g THE COLD WAR
14.
1.
Communism and capitalism
2.
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
3.
U.S. maturation as an international power
4.
Division of Germany, Berlin Blockade and Airlift
5.
Truman Doctrine
6.
Marshall Plan
7.
Lyndon B. Johnson and The Great Society
8.
Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal
9.
Collapse of U.S.S.R and democratization of Eastern Europe
USH.h AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 9/11
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GEOGRAPHY
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G.a
DEVELOPMENT OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATIONS
G.b
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETAL 17.
DEVELOPMENT
G.c
G.d
1.
Nationhood and statehood
2.
Sustainability
3.
Technology
4.
Natural resources
5.
Human changes to the environment
BORDERS BETWEEN PEOPLES AND NATIONS
1.
Concepts of region and place
2.
Natural and cultural diversity
3.
Geographic tools and skills
HUMAN MIGRATION
1.
Immigration, emigration and diaspora
2.
Culture, cultural diffusion and assimilation
3.
Population trends and issues
4.
Rural and urban settlement
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ECONOMICS
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20.
E.a KEY ECONOMIC EVENTS THAT HAVE SHAPED AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
AND POLICIES
E.b RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FREEDOMS 21.
E.c FUNDAMENTAL ECONOMIC CONCEPTS
1.
Markets
2.
Incentives
3.
Monopoly and competition
4.
Labor and capital
5.
Opportunity cost
6.
Profit
7.
Entrepreneurship
8.
Comparative advantage
9.
Specialization
22.
10. Productivity
11. Interdependence
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E.d MICROECONOMICS AND MACROECONOMICS
1.
Supply, demand and price
2.
Individual choice
3.
Institutions
4.
Fiscal and monetary policy
5.
Regulation and costs of government policies
6.
Investment
7.
Government and market failures
8.
Inflation and deflation
9.
GDP
TEACHING NOTES AND RESOURCES
23.
10. Unemployment
11. Tariffs
E.e CONSUMER ECONOMICS
1.
Types of credit
2.
Savings and banking
3.
Consumer credit laws
24.
E.f ECONOMIC CAUSES AND IMPACTS OF WARS
25.
E.g ECONOMIC DRIVERS OF EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION
26.
E.h SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS
27.
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