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Government AP
Essential Outcomes
Fairview High School

Government AP

Foundations of Government

  • Understand the distribution of power within United States government

  • Recognize political changes over time

  • Identify the various types of government

The Constitution

  • Understand the history behind the need for a constitution in the United States

  • Recognize compromises and challenges in creating the Constitution

  • Identify the economic motivations of the framers of the Constitution

  • Identify problems and solutions to the challenge of ratifying the Constitution

Federalism

  • Identify governmental structure

  • Understand the reasons behind the choice of Federalism as the structure for the United States

  • Assess the validity of debate over federalism regarding who has power in federal , state, and local matters

  • Assess the relationship between federal and state relations

Political Culture

  • Compare American and European governmental structure

  • Identify sources of political culture

  • Assess the history of Americans distrust of the government

  • Understand the history of political tolerance

Public Opinion

  • Define public opinion and recognize factors that impact it

  • Identify differing public opinion among various groups

Political Participation

  • Identify who participates in the political process and why

  • Identify varying forms of political participation

  • Understand motivations for participation in the political process and for not participating

Political Parties

  • Understand the history of political parties in the United States

  • Understand the role of the National Convention in today’s political parties and how that relationship has changed over time

  • Identify significant third parties and recognize their role in the political process

  • Assess how political parties affect the voters

Elections and Campaigns

  • Compare presidential and congressional campaigns

  • Understand the process of primaries and caucuses in presidential elections

  • Recognize the effects of money of campaigns and elections

  • Identify factors which go into winning elections

Interest Groups

  • Identify types of interest groups

  • Recognize how interest groups are used a vehicles for change

  • Identify ways in which interest groups raise funds

  • Compare political actions committees to interest groups

Congress

  • Track the evolution of Congress

  • Understand how someone gets to Congress

  • Assess how members of Congress represent varying social, economic, and ethnic constituents

  • Identify the process of how a bill becomes a law

  • Recognize various reform movements aimed at reforming Congress itself

The Presidency

  • Define divided government and how it has affected the political process

  • Describe presidential powers

  • Assess how the president uses his veto power

  • Understand presidential programs and appointments

The Bureaucracy

  • Track the growth of the federal bureaucracy.

  • Identify ways in which the Congress oversees the bureaucracy

  • Recognize ways of reforming bureaucratic agencies

  • Identify what bureaucratic agencies actually so

  • Understand what an Iron Triangle is and the relationship between the different groups

The Judiciary

  •  Understand the development of the federal court system

  • Identify the varying jurisdictions at all levels; federal, state, and local

  • Understand the scope of power held within the federal court system

  • List checks to the power of the federal judiciary

 

Social Welfare

  • Understand how Medicare and Social Security have evolved to become the largest sources of government spending

  • Asses how welfare policies affect varying social, economic, and ethnic groups

Civil Liberties

  • Evaluate the First Amendment

  • Understand the debate between the separation of church and state

  • Recognize the rights of the accused according to the Bill of Rights

Civil Rights

  • Understand the journey of civil rights through the court system

  • Identify various civil rights legislation

  • Understand the debate surrounding Affirmative Action

 

 

 

 

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