Wisconsin Model Academic Standards for Social Studies - Grade 12

A. Geography: People, Places and Environments

By the end of grade twelve, students will:

A.12.1 Use various types of atlases and appropriate vocabulary to describe the physical attributes of a place or region, employing such concepts as climate, plate tectonics, volcanism, and landforms, and to describe the human attributes, employing such concepts as demographics, birth and death rates, doubling time, emigration, and immigration

A.12.2 Analyze information generated from a computer about a place, including statistical sources, aerial and satellite images, and three-dimensional models

A.12.3 Construct mental maps of the world and the world's regions and draw maps from memory showing major physical and human features

A.12.4 Analyze the short-term and long-term effects that major changes in population in various parts of the world have had or might have on the environment

A.12.5 Use a variety of geographic information and resources to analyze and illustrate the ways in which the unequal global distribution of natural resources influences trade and shapes economic patterns

A.12.6 Collect and analyze geographic information to examine the effects that a geographic or environmental change in one part of the world, such as volcanic activity, river diversion, ozone depletion, air pollution, deforestation, or desertification, may have on other parts of the world

A.12.7 Collect relevant data to analyze the distribution of products among global markets and the movement of people among regions of the world

A.12.8 Identify the world's major ecosystems and analyze how different economic, social, political, religious, and cultural systems have adapted to them

A.12.9 Identify and analyze cultural factors, such as human needs, values, ideals, and public policies, that influence the design of places, such as an urban center, an industrial park, a public project, or a planned neighborhood

• From the Countryside to the City AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  
• Suburban Growth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6b.asp
  

A.12.10 Analyze the effect of cultural ethics and values in various parts of the world on scientific and technological development
• The Canal Era
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2a.asp
  
• Early American Railroads
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2b.asp
  
• Inventors and Inventions
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2c.asp
  
• Binding the Nation by Rail
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1a.asp
  
• From the Countryside to the City
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  
• The Print Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/4e.asp
  
• The Decade That Roared
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11.asp
  
• The Age of the Automobile
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11a.asp
  
• A Consumer Economy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11f.asp
  
• Radio Fever
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11g.asp
  
• The Monkey Trial
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12b.asp
  
• The Manhattan Project
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4f.asp
  
• Suburban Growth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6b.asp
  
• Land of Television
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6c.asp
  
• Life in the 1980s
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12d.asp
  
• Living in the Information Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13d.asp
  
• Europeans Explore AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2.asp
  
• The Scientific Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/9.asp
  
• The Age of Reason
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/10.asp
  
• Industrialization and Industrial Society AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3.asp
  
• The Cultural Revolution: The Birth of the Modern AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5.asp
  

A.12.11 Describe scientific and technological development in various regions of the world and analyze the ways in which development affects environment and culture
• Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10a.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  
• Inventors and Inventions
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2c.asp
  
• The First American Factories
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2d.asp
  
• The Crowning of King Cotton
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4a.asp
  
• Binding the Nation by Rail
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1a.asp
  
• From the Countryside to the City
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  
• The Print Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/4e.asp
  
• The Decade That Roared
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11.asp
  
• The Age of the Automobile
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11a.asp
  
• A Consumer Economy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11f.asp
  
• Radio Fever
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11g.asp
  
• The Monkey Trial
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12b.asp
  
• The Manhattan Project
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4f.asp
  
• Suburban Growth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6b.asp
  
• Land of Television
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6c.asp
  
• Life in the 1980s
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12d.asp
  
• Living in the Information Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13d.asp
  
• The Scientific Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/9.asp
  
• The Age of Reason
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/10.asp
  
• Industrialization and Industrial Society AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3.asp
  
• The Cultural Revolution: The Birth of the Modern AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5.asp
  

A.12.12 Assess the advantages and disadvantages of selected land use policies in the local community, Wisconsin, the United States, and the world
• The Royal Proclamation of 1763
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9a.asp
  
• The Trail of Tears -- The Indian Removals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1f.asp
  
• Life on the Farm
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/6c.asp
  

A.12.13 Give examples and analyze conflict and cooperation in the establishment of cultural regions and political boundaries
• From British Arrival through British Departure PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/index.asp
  
• Westward Expansion: The Louisiana Purchase
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8c.asp
  
• The Missouri Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11c.asp
  
• Manifest Destiny AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6.asp
  
• An Uneasy Peace AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/7.asp
  
• 'Bloody Kansas' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/8.asp
  
• From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9.asp
  
• A House Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10.asp
  
• The War Behind the Lines AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11.asp
  
• Reconstruction AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12.asp
  
• Closing the Frontier
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/5.asp
  
• Seeking Empire AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/9.asp
  
• New World Conquest
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2d.asp
  
• The Effects of Exploration
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2e.asp
  
• The Wars of Religion AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4.asp
  
• Absolutism in the East
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/6.asp
  
• Conservatism and Liberalism After Napoleon AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/1.asp
  
• Nationalism and Unification AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/2.asp
  
• The New Imperialism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/4.asp
  
• The War to End All Wars AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  
• World War II AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  

B. History:Time, Continuity, and Change

While studying Wisconsin history, students in grades 4-12 will learn about:

1. the prehistory and the early history of Wisconsin's native people

2. early explorers, traders, and settlers to 1812

• The Expanding Republic and the War of 1812
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9.asp
  
• The Importance of the West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9a.asp
  
• Exploration: Lewis and Clark
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9b.asp
  

3. the transition from territory to statehood, 1787-1848
• Westward Expansion: The Louisiana Purchase
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8c.asp
  
• The Missouri Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11c.asp
  

4. immigration and settlement
• The Alien and Sedition Acts
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7e.asp
  

5. Wisconsin's role in the Civil War, 1860-1865

6. mining, lumber, and agriculture

• Revolutionary Achievement: Yeomen and Artisans
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1g.asp
  
• Jeffersonian Ideology
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8b.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  

7. La Follette and the Progressive Era, 1874-1914
• Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7.asp
  

8. the world wars and conflicts
• America in the First World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  
• 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
  
• Postwar Challenges AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5.asp
  
• The Vietnam War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8.asp
  

9. prosperity, depression, industrialization, and urbanization
• From the Countryside to the City AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  
• The Great Depression AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/1.asp
  

10. Wisconsin's response to 20th century change

Historical Eras and Themes

While studying United States history, students in grades 5-12 will learn about:

1. the prehistory and early history of the Americas to 1607
• Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1.asp
  

2. colonial history and settlement, 1607-1763
• From British Arrival through British Departure PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/index.asp
  

3. the American Revolution and the early national period, 1763-1815
• The Events Leading to Independence AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• The American Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11.asp
  
• Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12.asp
  
• When Does the Revolution End? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1.asp
  
• Making Rules AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• Ratifying the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.asp
  
• George Washington AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5.asp
  
• Unsettled Domestic Issues AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6.asp
  
• Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7.asp
  
• Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8.asp
  
• The Expanding Republic and the War of 1812 AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9.asp
  
• Independence and the Articles of Confederation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2b.asp
  
• Creating the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2c.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2d.asp
  
• The Founders and Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3a.asp
  

4. the paradox of nationalism and sectionalism in an expanding nation, 1815-1860
• Politics and the New Nation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11.asp
  
• The South Carolina Nullification Controversy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1c.asp
  
• Jackson vs. Clay and Calhoun
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1e.asp
  
• The Trail of Tears -- The Indian Removals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1f.asp
  
• An Explosion of New Thought
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3.asp
  
• Religious Revival
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3a.asp
  
• Hudson River School Artists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3e.asp
  
• Transcendentalism, An American Philosophy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3f.asp
  
• The Peculiar Institution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4.asp
  
• Abolitionist Sentiment Grows AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/5.asp
  
• Manifest Destiny AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6.asp
  
• An Uneasy Peace AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/7.asp
  
• 'Bloody Kansas' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/8.asp
  
• From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9.asp
  
• Tipping the Scales Toward National Power
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3b.asp
  

5. the Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
• A House Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10.asp
  
• The War Behind the Lines AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11.asp
  
• Reconstruction AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12.asp
  

6. the growth of industrialization and urbanization, 1865-1914
• The Gilded Age AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1.asp
  
• From the Countryside to the City
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  

7. World War I and America's emergence as a world power, 1890-1920
• America in the First World War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  

8. prosperity, depression, and the New Deal, 1920-1941
• The Great Depression AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/1.asp
  
• The New Deal AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/2.asp
  
• The Founders and Federalism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3a.asp
  

9. World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, and the Vietnamese conflict, 1941-1975
• 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
  
• Postwar Challenges AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5.asp
  
• The Cold War Continues
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6e.asp
  
• The Vietnam War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8.asp
  
• The End of the Cold War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12e.asp
  

10. the search for prosperity and equal rights in Cold War and post-Cold War America, 1945-present
• 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
  
• Modern Feminism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10a.asp
  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  
• Defense Policy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11b.asp
  

Historical Eras and Themes

While studying world history, students in grades 5-12 will learn about:

1. prehistory to 2000 BC
• Painting before 1300 AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/2.asp
  
• How Do We Know? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/1.asp
  
• Prehistoric Times AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/2.asp
  

2. early pastoral civilizations, nonwestern empires, and tropical civilizations
• Prehistoric Times AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/2.asp
  

3. classical civilizations, including China, India, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, 1000 BC to 500 AD
• Egyptian Painting
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/2b.asp
  
• Aegean Frescoes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/2c.asp
  
• Greek and Roman Painting
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/2d.asp
  
• Ancient Egypt AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/3.asp
  
• Ancient Greece AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5.asp
  
• Ancient Rome AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/6.asp
  
• South Asia: India and Beyond AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8.asp
  
• China AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/9.asp
  

4. multiple religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism) and civilizations to 1100 AD
• Beyond the West AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/10.asp
  
• Early Medieval Painting
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/2e.asp
  
• Painting of the Late Middle Ages AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/3.asp
  
• Phoenicians: Sailing Away
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4f.asp
  
• Hebrews and the Land of Milk and Honey
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4g.asp
  
• Birth of Christianity
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4h.asp
  
• The Rise of Hinduism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8c.asp
  
• The Birth and Spread of Buddhism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8d.asp
  
• Taoism and Confucianism -- Ancient Philosophies
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/9e.asp
  

5. expansion and centralization of power, including the decline of feudalism, 1000-1500 AD
• Europeans Explore AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2.asp
  

6. the early modern world, 1450-1800 AD
• The Impact of Enlightenment in Europe
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7a.asp
  
• The Great Awakening
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7b.asp
  
• When Does the Revolution End? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1.asp
  
• Making Rules AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• Ratifying the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.asp
  
• George Washington AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5.asp
  
• Unsettled Domestic Issues AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6.asp
  
• Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7.asp
  
• Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Renaissance Painting in Italy AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/4.asp
  
• The Northern Renaissance AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/5.asp
  
• Two Hundred Years of the Baroque AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/6.asp
  
• The Age of Rococo: Art in 18th-Century Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/7.asp
  

7. global unrest, change, and revolution, 1750-1850 AD
• America's Place in the Global Struggle AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8.asp
  
• The Events Leading to Independence AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• The American Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11.asp
  
• Societal Impacts of the American Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  Students can use the content from this program to help achieve this standard
  
• The Wars of Religion AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4.asp
  
• Absolutism in the East AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/6.asp
  
• Constitutional Democracy Stirs AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7.asp
  
• Life in Early Modern Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/8.asp
  
• The Scientific Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/9.asp
  
• The Age of Reason AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/10.asp
  
• Revolution in France
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/11.asp
  
• The Age of Napoleon
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/12.asp
  
• Conservatism and Liberalism After Napoleon AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/1.asp
  
• Nationalism and Unification AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/2.asp
  

8. global encounters, industrialization, urbanization, and imperialism, 1850-1914 AD
• Seeking Empire AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/9.asp
  
• Conservatism and Liberalism After Napoleon AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/1.asp
  
• Nationalism and Unification AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/2.asp
  
• Industrialization and Industrial Society AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3.asp
  
• The New Imperialism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/4.asp
  
• The Cultural Revolution: The Birth of the Modern AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5.asp
  

9. wars, revolutions, and ideologies, 1900-1945 AD
• America in the First World War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  
• 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
  
• The New Imperialism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/4.asp
  
• The Cultural Revolution: The Birth of the Modern AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5.asp
  
• The War to End All Wars AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  
• World War II AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  

10. post-industrialism, global interdependence, and fragmentation in the contemporary world, 1945-present
• Containment and the Marshall Plan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5c.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

Performance Standards

By the end of grade twelve, students will:

B.12.1 Explain different points of view on the same historical event, using data gathered from various sources, such as letters, journals, diaries, newspapers, government documents, and speeches
• From British Arrival through British Departure PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/index.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Jackson through Reconstruction PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/index.asp
  
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  
• From the Depression to the New Millennium PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/index.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  
• Foundations of American Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.2 Analyze primary and secondary sources related to a historical question to evaluate their relevance, make comparisons, integrate new information with prior knowledge, and come to a reasoned conclusion
• From British Arrival through British Departure PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/index.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Jackson through Reconstruction PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/index.asp
  
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  
• From the Depression to the New Millennium PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/index.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.3 Recall, select, and analyze significant historical periods and the relationships among them
• From British Arrival through British Departure PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/index.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Jackson through Reconstruction PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/index.asp
  
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  
• From the Depression to the New Millennium PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/index.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.4 Assess the validity of different interpretations of significant historical events
• From British Arrival through British Departure PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/index.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Jackson through Reconstruction PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/index.asp
  
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  
• From the Depression to the New Millennium PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/index.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.5 Gather various types of historical evidence, including visual and quantitative data, to analyze issues of freedom and equality, liberty and order, region and nation, individual and community, law and conscience, diversity and civic duty; form a reasoned conclusion in the light of other possible conclusions; and develop a coherent argument in the light of other possible arguments
• From British Arrival through British Departure PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/index.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Jackson through Reconstruction PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/index.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.6 Select and analyze various documents that have influenced the legal, political, and constitutional heritage of the United States
• The House of Burgesses
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2f.asp
  
• The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3a.asp
  
• Indentured Servants
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/5b.asp
  
• 'Slave Codes'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6f.asp
  
• The Treaty of Paris (1763) and Its Impact
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8d.asp
  
• The Events Leading to Independence AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• The French Alliance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11h.asp
  
• Political Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12c.asp
  
• The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1a.asp
  
• The Tough Issues
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3c.asp
  
• Constitution Through Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3d.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  
• The Compromise of 1850
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/7d.asp
  
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/8a.asp
  
• The Emancipation Proclamation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11a.asp
  
• The Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10d.asp
  
• Separate No Longer?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7a.asp
  
• Roe v. Wade and Its Impact
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10d.asp
  
• Containment and the Marshall Plan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5c.asp
  
• Foundations of American Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2.asp
  
• The Glorious Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7e.asp
  Students can use the content and links from the foci listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.7 Identify major works of art and literature produced in the United States and elsewhere in the world and explain how they reflect the era in which they were created
• A New African-American Culture
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6g.asp
  
• Early National Arts and Cultural Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10f.asp
  
• Hudson River School Artists
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3e.asp
  
• Transcendentalism, An American Philosophy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3f.asp
  
• Artistic and Literary Trends
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3f.asp
  
• The Revolutions of 1848
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/1d.asp
  
• The Heart of Darkness
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/4c.asp
  
• The Cultural Revolution: The Birth of the Modern AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5.asp
  
• Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5c.asp
  
• Greek Literature
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5d.asp
  
• Art and Architecture
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5e.asp
  
• Kingdom of Ghana
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/7a.asp
  
• Mali: A Cultural Center
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/7b.asp
  
• The Gupta Period of India
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8e.asp
  
• Han Dynasty -- Cultural Heights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/9c.asp
  
• Tang Dynasty -- The Golden Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/9d.asp
  
• History of Painting PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/index.asp
  Students can use the content from this program to help achieve this standard
  

B.12.8 Recall, select, and explain the significance of important people, their work, and their ideas in the areas of political and intellectual leadership, inventions, discoveries, and the arts, within each major era of Wisconsin, United States, and world history
• The Ideas of Benjamin Franklin
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/4d.asp
  
• African Americans in the British New World AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7.asp
  
• George Washington's Background and Experience
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8c.asp
  
• The Events Leading to Independence AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• The American Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11.asp
  
• Babylonia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4b.asp
  
• Alexander the Great
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5g.asp
  
• Julius Caesar
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/6b.asp
  
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Jackson through Reconstruction PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/index.asp
  
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  
• From the Depression to the New Millennium PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/index.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.9 Select significant changes caused by technology, industrialization, urbanization, and population growth, and analyze the effects of these changes in the United States and the world
• Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10a.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  
• The Rise of American Industry AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2.asp
  
• The Crowning of King Cotton
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4a.asp
  
• The Gilded Age AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/1.asp
  
• Organized Labor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/2.asp
  
• From the Countryside to the City AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3.asp
  
• New Dimensions in Everyday Life AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/4.asp
  
• Progressivism Sweeps the Nation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7.asp
  
• The Decade That Roared AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/11.asp
  
• Old Values vs. New Values
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12.asp
  
• The Manhattan Project
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4f.asp
  
• Suburban Growth
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6b.asp
  
• Land of Television
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/6c.asp
  
• Life in the 1980s
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12d.asp
  
• Living in the Information Age
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13d.asp
  
• Europeans Explore
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/2.asp
  
• Life in Early Modern Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/8.asp
  
• The Scientific Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/9.asp
  
• The Age of Reason
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/10.asp
  
• Industrialization and Industrial Society AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3.asp
  
• A New Scientific Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5c.asp
  

B.12.10 Select instances of scientific, intellectual, and religious change in various regions of the world at different times in history and discuss the impact those changes had on beliefs and values
• Britain in the New World AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/2.asp
  
• The New England Colonies AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3.asp
  
• The Middle Colonies
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/4.asp
  
• The Southern Colonies
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/5.asp
  
• African Americans in the British New World AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• The Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7.asp
  
• Trans-Atlantic Crisis: The French Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7a.asp
  
• Social Change and National Development AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10.asp
  
• The Emergence of 'Women's Sphere'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/2e.asp
  
• An Explosion of New Thought AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3.asp
  
• Religious Revival: The 'Social Gospel'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3e.asp
  
• The Monkey Trial
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12b.asp
  
• The Manhattan Project
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4f.asp
  
• The Decision to Drop the Bomb
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4g.asp
  
• A New Civil Rights Movement AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7.asp
  
• Shaping a New America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Conservatism and Liberalism After Napoleon AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/1.asp
  
• Industrialization and Industrial Society AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3.asp
  
• The Cultural Revolution: The Birth of the Modern AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  
• Phoenicians: Sailing Away
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4f.asp
  
• Hebrews and the Land of Milk and Honey
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4g.asp
  
• Birth of Christianity
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4h.asp
  
• Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5c.asp
  
• The Caste System
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8b.asp
  
• The Rise of Hinduism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8c.asp
  
• The Birth and Spread of Buddhism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8d.asp
  
• Taoism and Confucianism -- Ancient Philosophies
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/9e.asp
  

B.12.11 Compare examples and analyze why governments of various countries have sometimes sought peaceful resolution to conflicts and sometimes gone to war
• America's Place in the Global Struggle AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8.asp
  
• The Events Leading to Independence AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• The American Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11.asp
  
• The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1a.asp
  
• Negotiating with the Superpowers
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7b.asp
  
• Westward Expansion: The Louisiana Purchase
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8c.asp
  
• Diplomatic Challenges in an Age of European War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9c.asp
  
• The Second War for American Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9e.asp
  
• Manifest Destiny AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6.asp
  
• Fort Sumter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10a.asp
  
• The Spanish-American War and Its Consequences
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/9d.asp
  
• America in the First World War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  
• The Road to Pearl Harbor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3.asp
  
• The Berlin Airlift and NATO
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5d.asp
  
• The Korean War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5e.asp
  
• The Vietnam War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/8.asp
  
• Kennedy's Global Challenges
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/9c.asp
  
• Triangular Diplomacy: U.S., USSR, and China
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/9g.asp
  
• The End of the Cold War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/12e.asp
  
• Operation Desert Storm
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13a.asp
  
• The Protestant Reformation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/3.asp
  
• The Wars of Religion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4.asp
  
• Absolutism in the East
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/6.asp
  
• Constitutional Democracy Stirs
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7.asp
  
• The Age of Reason
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/10.asp
  
• Revolution in France AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/11.asp
  
• The Age of Napoleon
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/12.asp
  
• Hammurabi's Code: An Eye for an Eye
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4c.asp
  
• Assyrians: Cavalry and Conquests
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4d.asp
  
• Persian Empire
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4e.asp
  
• Alexander the Great
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/5g.asp
  
• The Pax Romana
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/6c.asp
  
• The Fall of the Roman Empire
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/6f.asp
  
• Feudal Japan: The Age of the Warrior
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/10c.asp
  
• Clash of Cultures: Two Worlds Collide
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/11e.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from this program to help achieve this standard
  

B.12.12 Analyze the history, culture, tribal sovereignty, and current status of the American Indian tribes and bands in Wisconsin
• Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1.asp
  

B.12.13 Analyze examples of ongoing change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient civilizations; the rise of nation-states; and social, economic, and political revolutions
• The Creation of a New Nation PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/index.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  
• Ancient Civilizations PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

B.12.14 Explain the origins, central ideas, and global influence of religions, such as Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity
• Religious Transformation and the Second Great Awakening
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10c.asp
  
• Institutionalizing Religious Belief: The Benevolent Empire
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10d.asp
  
• The Protestant Reformation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/3.asp
  
• The Wars of Religion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4.asp
  
• Phoenicians: Sailing Away
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4f.asp
  
• Hebrews and the Land of Milk and Honey
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4g.asp
  
• Birth of Christianity
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/4h.asp
  
• The Rise of Hinduism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8c.asp
  
• The Birth and Spread of Buddhism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/8d.asp
  
• Taoism and Confucianism -- Ancient Philosophies
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/wcu81/9e.asp
  

B.12.15 Identify a historical or contemporary event in which a person was forced to take an ethical position, such as a decision to go to war, the impeachment of a president, or a presidential pardon, and explain the issues involved
• The Trial of John Peter Zenger
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/7c.asp
  
• The Boston Patriots
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9c.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• Shays' Rebellion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3a.asp
  
• Mount Vernon and the Dilemma of a Revolutionary Slave Holder
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5e.asp
  
• John Quincy Adams
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11e.asp
  
• The Trail of Tears -- The Indian Removals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1f.asp
  
• The Lone Star Republic
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6a.asp
  
• 'American Blood on American Soil'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6c.asp
  
• The Mexican-American War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/6d.asp
  
• Fort Sumter
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/10a.asp
  
• A President Impeached
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12c.asp
  
• The Road to Pearl Harbor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3.asp
  
• The Decision to Drop the Bomb
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/4g.asp
  
• Republicans vs. Democrats
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/13c.asp
  
• The Protestant Reformation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/3.asp
  
• The Wars of Religion AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4.asp
  
• Constitutional Democracy Stirs AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7.asp
  
• The Scientific Revolution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/9.asp
  
• Revolution in France AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/11.asp
  

B.12.16 Describe the purpose and effects of treaties, alliances, and international organizations that characterize today's interconnected world
• The Treaty of Paris (1763) and Its Impact
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/8d.asp
  
• The French Alliance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/11h.asp
  
• The United Nations
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5b.asp
  
• Containment and the Marshall Plan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5c.asp
  
• The Berlin Airlift and NATO
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5d.asp
  
• The Thirty Years' War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/4f.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

B.12.17 Identify historical and current instances when national interests and global interests have seemed to be opposed and analyze the issues involved
• African Americans in the British New World AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• Seeking Empire AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/9.asp
  
• America in the First World War
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/10.asp
  
• The Road to Pearl Harbor AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/3.asp
  
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

B.12.18 Explain the history of slavery, racial and ethnic discrimination, and efforts to eliminate discrimination in the United States and elsewhere in the world
• African Americans in the British New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1d.asp
  
• Constitution Through Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3d.asp
  
• Mount Vernon and the Dilemma of a Revolutionary Slave Holder
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5e.asp
  
• Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8f.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  
• The Expansion of the Vote: A White Man's Democracy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11b.asp
  
• The Missouri Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11c.asp
  
• The Trail of Tears -- The Indian Removals
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/1f.asp
  
• The Peculiar Institution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/4.asp
  
• Abolitionist Sentiment Grows AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/5.asp
  
• 'Bloody Kansas' AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/8.asp
  
• From Uneasy Peace to Bitter Conflict AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9.asp
  
• The Emancipation Proclamation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11a.asp
  
• Reconstruction AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12.asp
  
• Intolerance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12c.asp
  
• A New Civil Rights Movement AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7.asp
  
• Shaping a New America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10.asp
  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  

C. Political Science and Citizenship: Power, Authority, Governance and Responsibility

By the end of grade twelve, students will:

C.12.1 Identify the sources, evaluate the justification, and analyze the implications of certain rights and responsibilities of citizens
• The Declaration of Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10g.asp
  
• A Revolution in Social Law
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12b.asp
  
• The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1a.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1e.asp
  
• State Constitutions
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2a.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  
• The Expansion of the Vote: A White Man's Democracy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11b.asp
  
• Voting: A Forgotten Privilege?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4e.asp
  
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  
• The Glorious Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7e.asp
  
• The Age of Reason
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/10.asp
  

C.12.2 Describe how different political systems define and protect individual human rights
• The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1a.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  
• The Nature of Government AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/1.asp
  
• Comparing Governments
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13a.asp
  

C.12.3 Trace how legal interpretations of liberty, equality, justice, and power, as identified in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and other Constitutional Amendments, have changed and evolved over time
• The Declaration of Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10g.asp
  
• A Revolution in Social Law
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12b.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  
• The Dred Scott Decision
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9a.asp
  
• Creating the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2c.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/2d.asp
  
• Tipping the Scales Toward National Power
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/3b.asp
  
• The Power of the Federal Courts
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/9e.asp
  

C.12.4 Explain the multiple purposes of democratic government, analyze historical and contemporary examples of the tensions between those purposes, and illustrate how governmental powers can be acquired, used, abused, or legitimized
• The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1a.asp
  
• Making Rules AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• Ratifying the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  
• The Alien and Sedition Acts
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7e.asp
  
• Politics and the New Nation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11.asp
  
• Constitutional Democracy Stirs AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7.asp
  
• American Government PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/index.asp
  Students can use the content from this program to help achieve this standard.
  

C.12.5 Analyze different theories of how governmental powers might be used to help promote or hinder liberty, equality, and justice, and develop a reasoned conclusion
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12.asp
  
• The Declaration of Independence and Its Legacy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1a.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1e.asp
  
• Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1f.asp
  
• Making Rules AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• Unsettled Domestic Issues
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  
• Hamilton's Financial Plan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6b.asp
  
• Growing Opposition
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6c.asp
  
• Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7.asp
  
• Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8.asp
  
• Politics and the New Nation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11.asp
  
• The Dred Scott Decision
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/9a.asp
  
• The Emancipation Proclamation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/11a.asp
  
• Absolutism in the East AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/6.asp
  
• Constitutional Democracy Stirs
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7.asp
  

C.12.6 Identify and analyze significant political benefits, problems, and solutions to problems related to federalism and the separation of powers
• Making Rules AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• Ratifying the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.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 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
  

C.12.7 Describe how past and present American political parties and interest groups have gained or lost influence on political decision-making and voting behavior
• Ratifying the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.asp
  
• Two Parties Emerge
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7c.asp
  
• The Election of 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8a.asp
  
• A Federalist Stronghold: John Marshall's Supreme Court
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8e.asp
  
• The Era of Good Feelings and the Two-Party System
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11a.asp
  
• The Missouri Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11c.asp
  
• The 1824 Election and the 'Corrupt Bargain'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11d.asp
  
• Jacksonian Democracy and Modern America
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11f.asp
  
• Political Parties
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5a.asp
  
• Interest Groups
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5c.asp
  

C.12.8 Locate, organize, analyze, and use information from various sources to understand an issue of public concern, take a position, and communicate the position
• American Government PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/index.asp
  Students can use the content and links from this program to help achieve this standard.
  

C.12.9 Identify and evaluate the means through which advocates influence public policy, and identify ways people may participate effectively in community affairs and the political process
• E Pluribus Unum
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• Shays' Rebellion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3a.asp
  
• After the Fact: Virginia, New York, and 'The Federalist Papers'
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4d.asp
  
• Participating in Government
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4d.asp
  
• Voting: A Forgotten Privilege?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4e.asp
  
• How Do Citizens Connect With Their Government? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/5.asp
  

C.12.10 Evaluate the ways in which public opinion can be used to influence and shape public policy
• Shays' Rebellion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3a.asp
  
• Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8f.asp
  
• Institutionalizing Religious Belief: The Benevolent Empire
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10d.asp
  
• Measuring Public Opinion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4c.asp
  

C.12.11 Explain the United States' relationship to other nations and its role in international organizations, such as the United Nations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and North American Free Trade Agreement
• The United Nations
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5b.asp
  
• The Berlin Airlift and NATO
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/5d.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• A Small, Small, World?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13c.asp
  

C.12.12 Describe and evaluate ideas of how society should be organized and political power should be exercised, including the ideas of monarchism, anarchism, socialism, fascism, and communism; compare these ideas to those of representative democracy; and assess how such ideas have worked in practice
• Conservatism and Liberalism After Napoleon AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/1.asp
  
• Nationalism and Unification AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/2.asp
  
• Marxism and Socialism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3d.asp
  
• The Russian Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6e.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  
• 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
  

C.12.13 Explain and analyze how different political and social movements have sought to mobilize public opinion and obtain governmental support in order to achieve their goals
• The Events Leading to Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• Shays' Rebellion
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3a.asp
  
• Ratifying the Constitution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.asp
  
• Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8f.asp
  
• Institutionalizing Religious Belief: The Benevolent Empire
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10d.asp
  
• Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3c.asp
  
• Abolitionist Sentiment Grows AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/5.asp
  
• Organized Labor
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/2.asp
  
• Progressivism Sweeps the Nation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7.asp
  
• The Protestant Reformation
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/3.asp
  
• Constitutional Democracy Stirs AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/7.asp
  
• Revolution in France
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/11.asp
  
• The Age of Napoleon
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/12.asp
  
• Marxism and Socialism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3d.asp
  
• British Suffragettes: Fighting for the Right to Vote
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5e.asp
  
• Resistance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8c.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  

C.12.14 Describe and analyze the origins and consequences of slavery, genocide, and other forms of persecution, including the Holocaust
• African Americans in the British New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1f.asp
  
• Mount Vernon and the Dilemma of a Revolutionary Slave Holder
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5e.asp
  
• Native American Resilience and Violence in the West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6e.asp
  
• Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8f.asp
  
• Native American Resistance in the Trans-Appalachian West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9d.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  
• The Missouri Compromise
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11c.asp
  
• Rebuilding the Old Order
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/12d.asp
  
• The New Imperialism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/4.asp
  
• The Depression and the Rise of Totalitarianism AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/7.asp
  
• The Holocaust
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/8d.asp
  
• The End of Empire: Decolonization
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10d.asp
  
• Yugoslavia Breakup: Nationalism & Ethnic Cleansing
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12c.asp
  

C.12.15 Describe the evolution of movements to assert rights by people with disabilities, ethnic and racial groups, minorities, and women
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1e.asp
  
• Mount Vernon and the Dilemma of a Revolutionary Slave Holder
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5e.asp
  
• Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/8f.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  
• New Roles for White Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10e.asp
  
• The Expansion of the Vote: A White Man's Democracy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11b.asp
  
• Women's Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush82/3c.asp
  
• Women's Suffrage at Last
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7c.asp
  
• Booker T. Washington
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7d.asp
  
• W. E. B. DuBois
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7e.asp
  
• Intolerance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12c.asp
  
• A New Civil Rights Movement AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/7.asp
  
• Shaping a New America AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/10.asp
  
• Marxism and Socialism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3d.asp
  
• British Suffragettes: Fighting for the Right to Vote
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/5e.asp
  
• The End of Empire: Decolonization
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10d.asp
  
• The Collapse of the Soviet Union
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12a.asp
  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  

D. Economics: Production, Distribution, Exchange, Consumption

By the end of grade twelve, students will:

D.12.1 Explain how decisions about spending and production made by households, businesses, and governments determine the nation's levels of income, employment, and prices

D.12.2 Use basic economic concepts (such as supply and demand; production, distribution, and consumption; labor, wages, and capital; inflation and deflation; market economy and command economy) to compare and contrast local, regional, and national economies across time and at the present time

D.12.3 Analyze and evaluate the role of Wisconsin and the United States in the world economy

D.12.4 Explain and evaluate the effects of new technology, global economic interdependence, and competition on the development of national policies and on the lives of individuals and families in the United States and the world

• Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10a.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  

D.12.5 Explain how federal budgetary policy and the Federal Reserve System's monetary policies influence overall levels of employment, interest rates, production, and prices
• Economic Policy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11c.asp
  

D.12.6 Use economic concepts to analyze historical and contemporary questions about economic development in the United States and the world

D.12.7 Compare, contrast, and evaluate different types of economies (traditional, command, market, and mixed) and analyze how they have been affected in the past by specific social and political systems and important historical events

• Comparing Economic Systems
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13b.asp
  

D.12.8 Explain the basic characteristics of international trade, including absolute and comparative advantage, barriers to trade, exchange rates, and balance of trade

D.12.9 Explain the operations of common financial instruments (such as stocks and bonds) and financial institutions (such as credit companies, banks, and insurance companies)

D.12.10 Analyze the ways in which supply and demand, competition, prices, incentives, and profits influence what is produced and distributed in a competitive market system

D.12.11 Explain how interest rates are determined by market forces that influence the amount of borrowing and saving done by investors, consumers, and government officials

D.12.12 Compare and contrast how values and beliefs, such as economic freedom, economic efficiency, equity, full employment, price stability, security, and growth, influence decisions in different economic systems

• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  

D.12.13 Describe and explain global economic interdependence and competition, using examples to illustrate their influence on national and international policies
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• The European Union and European Identity
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12d.asp
  

D.12.14 Analyze the economic roles of institutions, such as corporations and businesses, banks, labor unions, and the Federal Reserve System
• Hamilton's Financial Plan
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6b.asp
  
• Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10a.asp
  
• Economic Policy
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/11c.asp
  

E. The Behavioral Sciences: Individuals, Institutions, and Society

By the end of grade twelve, students will:

E.12.1 Summarize research that helps explain how the brain's structure and function influence learning and behavior

E.12.2 Explain how such factors as physical endowment and capabilities, family, gender, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, attitudes, beliefs, work, and motivation contribute to individual identity and development

• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Slavery
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1d.asp
  
• Revolutionary Changes and Limitations: Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1e.asp
  
• Growing up in Colonial Virginia
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5a.asp
  
• Mount Vernon and the Dilemma of a Revolutionary Slave Holder
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/5e.asp
  
• Economic Growth and the Early Industrial Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10a.asp
  
• Cotton and African-American Life
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10b.asp
  
• New Roles for White Women
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10e.asp
  
• What Factors Shape Political Attitudes?
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/4b.asp
  

E.12.3 Compare and describe similarities and differences in the ways various cultures define individual rights and responsibilities, including the use of rules, folkways, mores, and taboos
• Civil Liberties and Civil Rights AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10.asp
  

E.12.4 Analyze the role of economic, political, educational, familial, and religious institutions as agents of both continuity and change, citing current and past examples
• Institutionalizing Religious Belief: The Benevolent Empire
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/10d.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  
• American Government PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

E.12.5 Describe the ways cultural and social groups are defined and how they have changed over time

E.12.6 Analyze the means by which and extent to which groups and institutions can influence people, events, and cultures in both historical and contemporary settings

• Witchcraft in Salem
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/3g.asp
  
• The Events Leading to Independence
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/9.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• When Does the Revolution End? AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1.asp
  
• Making Rules AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• Ratifying the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.asp
  
• Unsettled Domestic Issues AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6.asp
  
• Politics in Transition: Public Conflict in the 1790s AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/7.asp
  
• Politics and the New Nation AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/11.asp
  
• Early Modern Europe PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur11/index.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  
• American Government PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard.
  

E.12.7 Use scientific methods to assess the influence of media on people's behavior and decisions

E.12.8 Analyze issues of cultural assimilation and cultural preservation among ethnic and racial groups in Wisconsin, the United States, and the world

• African Americans in the British New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  
• Revolutionary Limits: Native Americans
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/1f.asp
  
• Native American Resistance in the Trans-Appalachian West
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/9d.asp
  
• The Rush of Immigrants
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/3c.asp
  
• Modern European History PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from this program to help achieve this standard.
  

E.12.9 Defend a point of view related to an ethical issue such as genetic engineering, declaring conscientious objector status, or restricting immigration
• American Government PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/index.asp
  Students can use the content from this program to help achieve this standard.
  

E.12.10 Describe a particular culture as an integrated whole and use that understanding to explain its language, literature, arts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors
• African Americans in the British New World
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/6.asp
  

E.12.11 Illustrate and evaluate ways in which cultures resolve conflicting beliefs and practices

E.12.12 Explain current and past efforts of groups and institutions to eliminate prejudice and discrimination against racial, ethnic, religious, and social groups such as women, children, the elderly, and individuals who are disabled

• Women's Suffrage at Last
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/7c.asp
  
• Intolerance
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/12c.asp
  
• The European Union and European Identity
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12d.asp
  
• Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/10a.asp
  

E.12.13 Compare the ways in which a universal theme is expressed artistically in three different world cultures
• History of Painting PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/index.asp
  Students can use the content from this program to help achieve this standard.
  

E.12.14 Use the research procedures and skills of the behavioral sciences (such as gathering, organizing, and interpreting data from several sources) to develop an informed position on an issue

E.12.15 Identify the skills needed to work effectively alone, in groups, and in institutions

E.12.16 Identify and analyze factors that influence a person's mental health

E.12.17 Examine and describe various belief systems that exist in the world, such as democracy, socialism, and capitalism

• Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/1.asp
  
• E Pluribus Unum AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/10.asp
  
• Societal Impacts of the American Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush72/12.asp
  
• Making Rules AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/2.asp
  
• Drafting the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/3.asp
  
• Ratifying the Constitution AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/4.asp
  
• The Bill of Rights
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush81/6a.asp
  
• Nationalism and Unification AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/2.asp
  
• Marxism and Socialism
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/3d.asp
  
• Darwinism and Its Social Implications
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/4e.asp
  
• The Russian Revolution
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/6e.asp
  
• Europe Divided AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/9.asp
  
• The Reconstruction of Western Europe AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/10.asp
  
• European Society During the Cold War AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/11.asp
  
• Europe Reunited AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/eur12/12.asp
  
• Comparative Political and Economic Systems AND ALL FOCUS TOPICS
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/gov91/13.asp
  
• The Gilded Age to the Depression PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush11/index.asp
  
• From the Depression to the New Millennium PROGRAM
  http://www.beyondbooks.com/ush12/index.asp
  Students can use the content from the programs listed above to help achieve this standard