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New
Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards
For
Social Studies
Civics - Section 6.2
World History - Section 6.3
United States / New
Jersey History - Section 6.4
Activities related to Thomas
Paine: An American Patriot
and reading the newspaper, may achieve the
following New Jersey Core Curriculum Content
Standards for Civics:
Through the 4th Grade
6.2.4 A. Civic Life, Politics,
and Government
1. Describe the characteristics of an effective
rule or low (e.g., achieves purpose, clear, fair,
protects rights and the common good).
2. Differentiate between power and authority.
3. Recognize that government exists at the
community, county, state, and federal levels.
6.2.4 B. American Values and
Principles
1. Identify the fundamental values and principles
of American democracy expressed in the Pledge of
Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, the
United States Constitution and the Bill of
Rights, and the first New Jersey Constitution.
3. Describe how American values and beliefs, such
as equality of opportunity, fairness to all,
equal justice, separation of church and state,
and the rights guaranteed by the United States
Constitution and the Bill of Rights, contribute
to the continuation and improvement of American
democracy.
4. Evaluate the importance of traditions, values,
and beliefs, which form a common American
heritage in an increasingly diverse American
society.
6.2.4 C. The Constitution and
American Democracy
1. Discuss how the Constitution describes how the
United States government is organized and how it
defines and limits the power of government.
4. Delineate the respective roles of the three
branches of the federal and state governments.
6.2.4 D. Citizenship
3. Describe the process by which immigrants can
become United States citizens.
6.2.4 E. International
Education: Global Challenges, Cultures, and
Connections
2. Discuss how the United States interacts with
other nations of the world through trade,
treaties and agreements, diplomacy, cultural
contacts, and sometimes through the use of
military force.
Through the 8th Grade
6.2.8 A. Civic Life, Politics,
and Government
1. Discuss the sources, purposes, and functions
of law and the importance of the rule of law for
the preservation of individual rights and the
common good.
2. Describe the underlying values and principles
of democracy an distinguish these from
authoritarian forms of government..
6.2.8 B. American Values and
Principles
1. Analyze how certain values including
individual rights, the common good,
self-government, justice, equality and free
inquiry are fundamental to American public life.
6.2.8 C. The Constitution and
American Democracy
1. Discuss the major principals of the
Constitution, including shared powers, checks and
balances, separation of church and state, and
federalism.
4. Discuss major historical and contemporary
conflicts over United States constitutional
principles, including judicial review in Marbury
v. Madison, slavery in the Dred Scott Decision,
separate but equal in Plessy v. Ferguson, and the
rights of minorities in the Indian Removal Act.
6.2.8 D. Citizenship
1. Discuss the rights and responsibilities of
American citizens, including obeying laws, paying
taxes, serving on juries, and voting in local,
state, and national elections.
6.2.8 E. International
Education: Global Challenges, Cultures, and
Connections
1. Analyze ways in which nation-states interact
with one another through trade, diplomacy,
cultural exchanges, treaties or agreements,
humanitarian aid, economic incentives and
sanctions, and the use or threat of military
force.
3. Compare and contrast the powers the
Constitution gives to Congress, the President,
and Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the
federal judiciary regarding foreign affairs.
Through the 12th Grade
6.2.12 A. Civic Life,
Politics, and Government
1. Analyze how reserved and jointly held powers
in the United States Constitution result in
tensions among the three branches of government
and how these tensions are resolved (e.g.,
Marbury v. Madison-1803; Federalist #78; United
States v. Nixon-1974, claims of Executive
Privilege by Presidents Nixon, Clinton, and
Bush).
6.2.12 B. American Values and
Principles
1. Analyze major historical events and important
ideas that led to and sustained the
constitutional government of the United States,
including the Constitutional Convention of 1787,
the Judiciary Act of 1789, the first Cabinet
under George Washington, and Amendments 1-15.
4. Discuss how a common and shared American civic
culture is based on commitment to central ideas
in founding-era documents (e.g., United States
Constitution) and in core documents of subsequent
periods of United States history (e.g.,
Washington’s Farewell Address; Seneca Falls
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions-1848;
The Gettysburg Address; President Franklin
Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms’’
speech-1941; President Kennedy’s Inaugural
Address-1961; the 17th, 19th, and 24th
Amendments; Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I
Have a Dream’’ speech and the
“Letter from Birmingham Jail’’).
6.2.12 C. The Constitution and
American Democracy
1. Debate current issues and controversies
involving the central ideas of the American
constitutional system, including representative
government (e.g., Electoral College and the
popular vote), civic virtue (e.g., increasing
voter turnout through registrations and
campaigns), checks and balances, and limits on
governmental power.
2. Analyze, through current and historical
examples and Supreme Court Cases, the scope of
governmental power and how the constitutional
distribution of responsibilities seeks to prevent
the abuse of that power.
3. Compare the American system of representative
government with systems in other democracies such
as the parliamentary systems in England and
France.
4. Compare and contrast the major constitutional
and legal responsibilities of the federal
government for domestic and foreign policy and
describe how disagreements are resolved.
5. Describe the nature of political parties in
America and how they reflect the spectrum of
political views on current state and federal
policy issues.
6. Explain the federal and state legislative
process and analyze the influence of lobbying,
advocacy groups, the media, and campaign finance
on the development of laws and regulations.
6.2.12 E. International
Education: Global Challenges, Cultures, and
Connections
1. Compare and contrast key past and present
United States foreign policy actions (e.g.,
diplomacy, economic aid, humanitarian aid,
military aid) and positions (e.g., treaties,
sanctions, interventions) and evaluate their
consequences.
2. Analyze and evaluate United States foreign
policy actions and positions, including the
Monroe Doctrine, the Mexican Cession, the Truman
Doctrine, the Cold War, the world-wide struggle
against terrorism, and the Iraq War.
Activities related to Thomas
Paine: An American Patriot
and reading the newspaper, may achieve the
following New Jersey Core Curriculum Content
Standards for World History:
6.3.12 D. The Age of Global
Encounters (1400-1750)
6. Discuss the major developments in European
society and culture, including:
. The English Revolution and the strengthening of
Parliament as a countervailing force to the
monarchy and importance of the balance of powers,
including the Glorious Revolution and the English
Bill of Rights;
6.3.12 E. The Age of
Revolutionary Change (1750-1914)
1. Discuss the causes and consequences of
political revolutions in the late 18th and early
19th centuries, including:
. The ideas and events that shaped the French
Revolution (e.g., monarchy v.s. social ideals of
liberty, equality, and fraternity; political
beliefs and writings; development of the empire).
Activities
related to Thomas Paine: An
American Patriot and
reading the newspaper, may achieve the following
New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for
United States / New Jersey History:
Through the 8th Grade
6.4.8 D. Colonization and
Settlement (1585-1763)
1. Analyze the political, social, and cultural
characteristics of the English colonies.
2. Describe the political, religious, social, and
economic institutions that emerged in Colonial
America, including New Netherland and colonial
New Jersey.
3. Explain the differences in colonization of the
Americas by England, the Netherlands, France, and
Spain, including governance, relation to the
mother countries, and interactions with other
colonies and Native Americans.
6.4.8 E. Revolution and the
New Nation (1754-1820)
1. Discuss the background and major issues of the
American Revolution, including the political and
economic causes and consequences of the
revolution.
3. Identify major British and American leaders
and describe their roles in key events, such as
the First and Second Continental Congresses,
drafting and approving the Declaration of
Independence (1776), the publication of
“Common Sense,’’ and major battles
of the Revolutionary War.
4. Explain New Jersey’s critical role in the
American Revolution, including major battles, the
involvement of women and African Americans, and
the origins of the movement to abolish slavery.
5. Discuss the political and philosophical
origins of the United States Constitution and its
implementation in the 1790s.
Through the 12th Grade
6.4.12 D. Colonization and
Settlement (1585-1763)
1. Analyze the major issues of the colonial
period, including European hegemony over North
America and mercantilism and trade.
2. Analyze how American colonial experiences
caused change in the economic institutions of
Europe, Africa, and the native population by
examining indentured servitude and slavery and
the rights of men and women.
6.4.12 E. Revolution and the
New Nation (1754-1820)
1. Discuss the social, political, and religious
aspects of the American Revolution, including key
decisions leading the Revolution, efforts by
Parliament and the colonies to prevent
revolution, the ideas of different religious
denominations, and the economic and social
differences of Loyalists, Patriots, and those who
remained neutral.
2. Analyze the social and economic impact of the
Revolutionary War, including problems of
financing the war (e.g., wartime inflation,
hoarding and profiteering), the impact of the war
on women and African Americans, and the personal
and economic hardships on families involved with
the war.
3. Discuss the involvement of European nations
during the Revolution and how their involvement
influenced the outcome and aftermath (e.g., the
assistance of France and Spain, how the
self-interests of France and Spain differed from
the United States after the war, the
contributions of European military leaders, the
creation of the Alien Sedition Acts).
4. Analyze strategic elements used during the
Revolutionary War, discuss turning points during
the war, and explain how the Americas won the war
against superior resources.
5. Analyze New Jersey’s role in the American
Revolution, including New Jersey’s
Constitution of 1776 as a revolutionary document,
why some New Jerseyans became Loyalists, and the
Battles of Trenton, Princeton, and Monmouth.
6. Compare and contrast the major philosophical
and historical influences on the development of
the Constitution (e.g., Washington’s
Farewell Address (1796), Locke’s Second
Treatise, the ideas of Alexander Hamilton, James
Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and William Paterson).
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