Standards for Polling In the Past

Analyze how people use and challenge local, state, national, and international laws to address a variety of public issues.

Analyze historical, contemporary, and emerging means of changing societies, promoting the common good, and protecting rights.

Analyze the role of citizens in the U.S. political system, with attention to various theories of democracy, changes in Americans' participation over time, and alternative models from other countries, past and present.

Explain how the U.S. Constitution establishes a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits that have changed over time and that are still contested.

Evaluate citizens' and institutions' effectiveness in addressing social and political problems at the local, state, tribal, national, and/or international level.

Evaluate how historical events and developments were shaped by unique circumstances of time and place as well as broader historical contexts.

Distinguish between long-term causes and triggering events in developing a historical argument.

Analyze complex and interacting factors that influenced the perspectives of people during different historical eras.

Analyze how historical contexts shaped and continue to shape people's perspectives.