NCATE Educational Standards met by HIS 250: U.S. to 1865

1A. Understands the structure, purpose, and methodology of the social sciences.

1B. Understands the interdependence of the social science disciplines.

1D. Understands the relationship between the social sciences and other learning areas.

2A. Understands the value of informed opinion based on systematic analysis of evidence.

2B. Understands the strengths and weaknesses of primary and secondary sources of evidence.

2C. Understands the importance of multiple sources of information.

2D. Understands the complexity of causation.

2E. Understands the tentative nature of interpretations about human actions.

2F. Understands the difference between fact and conjecture and between evidence and assertion.

2G. Demonstrates the ability to compare and contrast.

2H. Differentiates between facts and interpretations.

2I. Analyzes cause and effect relationships.

2J. Compares competing narratives and multiple perspectives.

2K. Identifies the central questions addressed in a narrative.

2L. Analyzes data from a variety of sources before reaching a general conclusion or interpretation.

3A. Understands the tools of social science research.

3B. Understands the use of research in reaching conclusions and developing interpretations.

3C. Understands the accepted codes of ethics for conducting research and interpreting findings.

6A. Understands the historical development of United States and Illinois constitutional government.

6B. Understands the principles of representative government that form the foundation of constitutional democracy.

6C. Explains how historical events and significant individuals have affected the development of United States constitutional government.

6D. Analyzes the fundamental principles (e.g., separation of powers, checks and balances, individual rights, and federalism) that led to the development of

democratic government in the United States and Illinois.

7A. Understands the organizational structure of national, state, and local government.

7B. Understands the operations of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

7C. Understands the functions of national, state, and local governments.

7D. Explains how and why powers of the national government are distributed, shared, and limited in a federal system.

7E. Analyzes the relationships among national, state, and local governments.

8A. Understands the sources, purposes, and functions of law (e.g., basic legal rights and responsibilities).

8B. Understands the rights extended to citizens through the Bill of Rights and other amendments.

8C. Understands the role of the Supreme Court in defining, expanding, and limiting individual rights.

8D. Understands the role of responsible citizenship.

8E. Evaluates the rights and responsibilities of the individual in relation to his or her family, social groups, community, and nation.

8F. Evaluates historical and current issues regarding the judicial protection of individual rights (e.g., landmark court decisions and amendments).

8G. Examines the implications of responsible citizenship (e.g., decision‑making, volunteerism, and voting).

12B. Understands the roles of the federal government and the Federal Reserve System in the U.S. economy.

12C. Understands the impact of government policies on economic decision making.

12D. Understands the impact of economic problems such as inflation and unemployment.

12E. Explores the impact of competition and monopoly on businesses and households.

12F. Analyzes the relationships among households, firms, and government agencies in a market economy.

12G. Evaluates the effects of taxes, subsidies, income transfers, interest rates, and other policies on the decisions of consumers and producers.

12H. Analyzes economic problems (e.g., inflation and unemployment).

14A. Understands chronological thinking and periodization.

14B. Understands cause and effect.

14C. Understands change and continuity.

14D. Understands historical context.

14E. Places historical events in the proper chronological framework and compares alternative models of periodization.

14F. Analyzes the causes and effects of historical events.

14G. Explains patterns of historical succession and duration, continuity, and change.

14H. Explains events in relationship to historical setting.

18A. Understands the evolution of American democracy; including its ideas, institutions, and practices from the colonial period to the present.

18B. Understands the evolution of United States foreign policy and its relationship to domestic affairs and foreign policy.

18C. Understands the development of political institutions in Illinois.

18D. Describes the origins and development of democracy in the United States.

18E. Explains the emergence of the United States as a world power.

18F. Describes the influence of domestic affairs on foreign policy.

18G. Describes the development of government in Illinois.

19A. Understands the characteristics of migration and settlement of people who came to America from different regions from prehistory to the present.

19B. Understands the importance of family and local history, and their relation to the larger context of American development.

19C. Understands the changing character of American society, culture, arts and letters, education, religion, and values.

19D. Analyzes migration patterns and movement of people to and within the United States and Illinois.

19E. Identifies examples of continuity and change in American culture, arts and letters, education, religion, and values.

19F. Explains the concept of “e pluribus unum.”

20A. Understands the development of the United States' and Illinois' economies:  agricultural, industrial, and service sectors.

20B. Understands the relationship between geography and economic developments.

20C. Describes the impact of technological change and urbanization in the United States and Illinois.

20D. Describes the changing role of labor in the United States and Illinois.

20E. Describes the development and impact of capitalism in the United States and Illinois.

20F. Explains the changing role of the United States' economy within the global economy.

21A. Understands the use of mental and other maps.

1C. Understands the characteristics of various economic systems (command, traditional, market, and mixed).

1W. Examines the economic effects of government policies.

1A. Understands the interaction of European and Native American societies through the mid‑19th century.

1B. Understands the development of political, religious, and socioeconomic institutions in the American colonies.

1C. Understands the role of the American Revolution in the development of United States society.

1D. Understands the impact of the industrial revolution, the institution of slavery, and westward expansion on regional and national development.

1E. Identifies political ideas that influenced the development of U.S. constitutional government.

1F. Assesses factors that contributed to the Age of Exploration and evaluates the consequences of the Columbian Exchange.

1G. Explains the social, economic, and political tensions that led to the American Revolution.

1H. Explains the factors that accounted for the differences between societies in New England, the mid‑Atlantic, and the lower South.

1I. Explains the effect of the revolution on social, political, and economic relations in the new nation.

1J. Explains the evolution of the two‑party system.

6A. Understands the evolution of political ideas, institutions, and practices and their role in Illinois.

6B. Understands the influence of geography, technology, agriculture, urbanization, industry, and labor on the development of the Illinois economy.

6C. Understands the effects of migration of people and cultures and several religious traditions that have shaped Illinois.

6D. Understands the roles of family and local history in their relation to the larger context of U.S. and global history.

6E. Describes the development of political ideas, institutions, and practices in Illinois.

6F. Traces development of the Illinois economy.

6G. Assesses the impact of cultural migration and religious traditions on Illinois.

6H. Relates Illinois family and local history to U.S. and world history.

8A. Understands the various and changing definitions of history.

8B. Understands the origins and interpretative frameworks of significant theories of history.

8C. Understands the tentative nature of historical interpretation.

8D. Differentiates among and evaluates various definitions of history.

8E. Employs and assesses interpretive frameworks in analyzing historical events.

8F. Evaluates major debates among historians.

3A. Understands amendments and other developments since the ratification of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights effecting basic principles (e.g.,

separation of power, judicial review, federalism, selection of officials, and the rights of persons).

8B. Understands the influence of national political systems and domestic politics on foreign policy with an emphasis on the United States.