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9-10 Grades: Social Studies Benchmarks for Citizenship
A. Analyze ways people achieve governmental change, including political
action, social protest, and revolution.
B. Explain how individual rights are relative, not absolute, and
describe the balance between individual rights, the rights of others,
and the common good.
Citizenship (Participation)
9th Grade:
1. Analyze and evaluate the influence of various forms of citizen action
on public policy including:
 a.
The French Revolution;
b. The
international movement to abolish the slave trade and slavery;
c.
The Russian Revolution;
d. The independence movement in India;
e.
The fall of communism in Europe;
f. The end of apartheid.
2. Describe and compare opportunities for citizen participation under
different systems of government including:
a.
Absolute monarchies;
b. Constitutional monarchies;
c. Parliamentary democracies;
d. Presidential democracies;
e. Dictatorships;
f. Theocracies.
3. Analyze how governments and other groups have used propaganda to
influence public opinion and behavior.
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