Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on the United States society.
Comprehension of the experiences of individuals, society, and how past human experience has adapted builds aptitude to apply to civic participation.
Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending society in the United States. Domestic instability, ethnic and racial relations, labor relation, immigration, and wars and revolutions are examples of social disagreement and collaboration.
Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending the American society.
Documents and principles define the procedures, operations and rules for the functioning of government and society.
Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions.
Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions. Some consequences may be impacted by forces of the irrational or the accidental.
Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context of events and actions.
Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context, as well as an awareness of point of view.
Historical skills (organizing information chronologically, explaining historical issues, locating sources and investigate materials, synthesizing and evaluating evidence, and developing arguments and interpretations based on evidence) are used by an analytical thinker to create a historical construction.
Human organizations work to socialize members and, even though there is a constancy of purpose, changes occur over time.
Learning about the past and its different contexts shaped by social, cultural, and political influences prepares one for participation as active, critical citizens in a democratic society.
Long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of United States culture provide vital contributions to contemporary issues.
Long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of United States society provide vital contributions to contemporary issues. Belief systems and religion, commerce and industry, innovations, settlement patterns, social organization, transportation and trade, and equality are examples continuity and change.
Social entities clash over disagreement and assist each other when advantageous.
Society can only exist and thrive if there is confidence in the rule of law and its authority. Failure to meet the obligations of the rule of law must entail appropriate consequences.
Textual evidence, material artifacts, the built environment, and historic sites are central to understanding United States history.
The rights and civil liberties granted by the Constitutions of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are to be safeguarded by both governments and citizens.
United States history can offer an individual discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
United States history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
