Course Description: Students will learn about the rights and responsibilities of United States citizenship. They explore the structure of the federal government, as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, and the organization of state and local governments. They learn the basics of the American free enterprise system and United States foreign policy. Each of the five units--Citizenship, National Government, State and Local Government, Economics of Free Enterprise, and Foreign Policy--contains an in-depth section where the student investigates a specific incident or issue tied to the unit theme.

Course Contents:
Students will learn about:

• Rights and responsibilities of citizens
• In-depth: Japanese American Internment
• Citizens' influence on policy-making
• Influences on the constitution of the United States
• Constitutional division of powers
• In-depth: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia
• State government
• Local government
• In-depth: School desegregation
• Economics and free enterprises
• Economic production
• Economic consumption
• In-depth: Women in business
• History of United States foreign policy
• In-depth: United States foreign policy in Lebanon
• Agencies of foreign policy

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