Discuss the ethnic conflicts and discrimination which existed. Indicators Describe the organization of the government under the new Constitution. Benchmark Analyze the role of nationalism in economic growth. Indicators Examine the role of economic and technological innovations in transforming society. Discuss the effect of trade, tariffs, taxation and trends in the national debt.
Indicators Compare the foreign policy decisions of the early Presidents.
Indicators Analyze major territorial issues facing the early Presidents and Congress. Identify the rationale, methods and the consequences of the territorial expansion and Manifest Destiny and how it was influenced by the physical environment. Benchmark Analyze the extent to which the American Dream was maintained or denied. Indicators Trace the development of social customs which resulted in institutionalizing segregation. Discuss the influence of the West and the effect of the closing of the frontier on ideas and cultural developments.