Arkansas State Standards for Social Studies: Grade 6

AR.G. Geography

G.1. Physical and Spatial: Students shall develop an understanding of the physical and spatial characteristics and applications of geography.

G.1.6.1. Location, Place, and Region: Apply the proper usage of absolute and relative location. 8
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G.1.6.2. Location, Place, and Region: Examine the location, place, and region of Arkansas and determine the characteristics of each. 3
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G.1.6.3. Location, Place, and Region: Identify the countries on the continent of North America and analyze their geographical relationship. 15
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G.1.6.4. Location, Place, and Region: Explain the importance of the major river systems of the United States and Arkansas: Arkansas River, Colorado River, Mississippi River, Ohio River, and St. Lawrence River. 4
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G.1.6.5. Location, Place, and Region: Illustrate information relating to population, climate, weather patterns, or other specific topics on selected types of charts or graphs. 13
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G.1.6.6. Location, Place, and Region: Analyze a map of the fifty states and identify regions (e.g., Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, West). 8
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G.1.6.7. Map and Globe Skills: Examine different maps and globe projections and recognize the differences of each map or projection. 22
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G.1.6.8. Map and Globe Skills: Construct a map of the United States using all basic map components: compass rose, map scale, legend/key, inset map, and title. 20
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G.1.6.9. Map and Globe Skills: Compare the location of specific places on both maps and globes. 19
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G.1.6.10. Map and Globe Skills: Discuss reasons for the location of political boundaries and capital cities due to physical features of the nation or states 9
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G.2. Culture and Diversity: Students shall develop an understanding of how cultures around the world develop and change.

G.2.6.1. Culture/Diversity: Examine the effects of the contributions of people from selected racial, ethnic, and religious groups to the cultural identify of Arkansas and the United States. 10
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G.2.6.2. Culture/Diversity: Describe how people from selected racial, ethnic, and religious groups attempt to maintain their cultural heritage while adapting to the culture of Arkansas and the United States. 2
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G.2.6.3. Culture/Diversity: Identify the occurrences of cultural diffusion, cultural exchange, and assimilation in local and national history 2
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G.3. Interaction of People and the Environment: Students shall develop an understanding of the interactions between people and their environment.

G.3.6.1. Movement: Describe the location of major cities in Arkansas and the United States and the availability of resources and transportation in those areas. 9
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G.3.6.2. Movement: Distinguish between push-pull factors. 4
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G.3.6.3. Movement: Compare methods of communication through present day technology. 12
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G.3.6.4. Movement: Distinguish between interstate and intrastate transportation and the effects globalization has on these methods of transportation. 34
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G.3.6.5. Human Environment Interaction: Describe the physical processes that produce renewable and nonrenewable resources. 15
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G.3.6.6. Human Environment Interaction: Describe ways in which technology influences capacity to modify the physical environment. 39
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G.3.6.7. Human Environment Interaction: Analyze the consequences of environmental modification on Arkansas and specific areas of the United States: acid rain, global warming, ozone depletion, erosion, and desertification. 39
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AR.C. Civics

C.4. Government: Students shall develop an understanding of the forms and roles of government.

C.4.6.1. Forms and Roles of Government: Compare and contrast the three branches of government at the state and national levels of government: executive, legislative, and judicial. 22
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C.4.6.2. Forms and Roles of Government: Discuss the system of checks and balances in government. 22
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C.4.6.3. Forms and Roles of Government: Discuss the roles and responsibilities of the executive branch (e.g., state/governor, federal/president). 8
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C.4.6.4. Forms and Roles of Government: Compare and contrast the roles of the legislative branch (e.g., general assembly/congress, state congress and federal congress, house, senate). 8
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C.4.6.5. Forms and Roles of Government: Compare and contrast the roles of the judicial branch (e.g., local, state, and federal). 11
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C.4.6.6. Forms and Roles of Government: Discuss the forms of government (e.g., democracy, monarchy, dictatorship, oligarchy, totalitarian). 9
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C.4.6.7. Forms and Roles of Government: Recognize elected state and federal government officials (e.g., terms and qualifications) . 10
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C.4.6.8. Forms and Roles of Government: Discuss the succession of leadership at the federal level. 24
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C.4.6.9. Forms and Roles of Government: Describe the development of the two-party system and the influence of third parties. 9
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C.5. Citizenship: Students shall develop an understanding of how to participate, develop, and use the skills necessary for effective citizenship.

C.5.6.1. Roots of Democracy: Determine the way rights and laws of the United States were created by examining founding documents (e.g., Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, Mayflower Compact). 15
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C.5.6.2. Roots of Democracy: Examine the effects of the Declaration of Independence. 5
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C.5.6.3. Roots of Democracy: Evaluate reasons for writing the United States Constitution. 8
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C.5.6.4. Roots of Democracy: Evaluate the importance of the United States Constitution as a governing document for the United States. 8
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C.5.6.5. Roots of Democracy: Research national symbols and movements using primary and secondary sources (e.g., Uncle Sam, political party symbols, Vietnam Memorial, Mt. Rushmore). 2
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C.5.6.6. Roots of Democracy: Analyze significant examples of music from various periods of United States history. 19
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C.5.6.7. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Examine the process of becoming a citizen of the United States. 10
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C.5.6.8. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Evaluate ways being a good citizen is important for every individual (e.g., voting, obeying laws, volunteerism). 4
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C.5.6.9. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Examine ways citizens utilize the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. 4
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C.5.6.10. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Examine the importance of the procedure for voting in the United States and in Arkansas (e.g., registration, maintaining the right to vote, voicing opinion). 6
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C.5.6.11. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Analyze the importance of citizen participation in government at the state and local level. 11
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C.5.6.12. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Examine the rights guaranteed to United States citizens in the Bill of Rights. 4
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C.5.6.13. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Compare U.S. Constitutional Amendments granting citizen's rights. 11
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C.5.6.14. Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens: Examine how citizens' rights are exercised through organizations that influenced societal and governmental change (e.g., ACLU, NAACP, CORE, ERA). 6
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AR.H. History

H.6. History: Students shall analyze significant ideas, events, and people in world, national, state, and local history and how they affect change over time.

H.6.6.1. Continuity and Change: Determine the meaning of various political cartoons.

H.6.6.2. Continuity and Change: Create/construct timelines using the terms: ca (circa), Before Common Era/Common Era (BCE/CE), millennia, millennium, decade, and century. 7
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H.6.6.3. Continuity and Change: Define and discuss post-Civil War Reconstruction from a state and national perspective. 2
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H.6.6.4. Continuity and Change: Discuss the impact of Manifest Destiny on the United States. 6
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H.6.6.5. Continuity and Change: Research early 20th century inventions and their impact on Americans (e.g., telephone, electricity, automobile). 5
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H.6.6.6. Continuity and Change: Explain the impact of the American industrial revolution: communications and mass production. 9
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H.6.6.7. Continuity and Change: Analyze the impact of World War I on daily life in the United States (e.g., prohibition, food distribution, fuel distribution, propaganda). 12
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H.6.6.8. Continuity and Change: Analyze the causes and effects of the Great Depression: Federal Reserve actions, farm prices, crop failures, stock market crash, and Roosevelt's New Deal. 10
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H.6.6.9. Continuity and Change: Explain how the Women's Rights movement led to the Nineteenth Amendment. 1
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H.6.6.10. Continuity and Change: Locate the countries who were part of the World War II Axis and Allied Powers. 16
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H.6.6.11. Continuity and Change: Analyze the scientific and technological innovations that affected society in the mid to late 20th century: communication, technology, medicine, and transportation. 4
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H.6.6.12. Continuity and Change: Identify major contributions and achievements of the US space program (e.g., Apollo 11, International Space Station). 6
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H.6.6.13. Conflict and Consensus: Explain the conflict between the American Indians and settlers moving westward (e.g., Battle of Little Big Horn, American Indian Movement). 3
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H.6.6.14. Conflict and Consensus: Explain the causes and effects of the Spanish American War (e.g., U.S. interest in imperial expansion, USS Maine, Yellow Journalism). 2
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H.6.6.15. Conflict and Consensus: Describe the expanding role of the US in world affairs (e.g., Panama Canal). 2
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H.6.6.16. Conflict and Consensus: Explain the events that led to the United States involvement in World War I (e.g., Zimmerman telegram, German U-boat activity). 12
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H.6.6.17. Conflict and Consensus: Examine the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I and the creation of the League of Nations. 7
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H.6.6.18. Conflict and Consensus: Examine the events and political decisions that led to the United States involvement in World War II: Fascism, Nazism, Treaty of Versailles, and Great Depression. 22
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H.6.6.19. Conflict and Consensus: Research the major events and political decisions made by the United States during the course of World War II: alliance with Great Britain and France, Pearl Harbor, atomic bomb, and relocation and internment of Japanese Americans. 22
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H.6.6.20. Conflict and Consensus: Examine the events that led to the conclusion of World War II (e.g., Normandy, liberation of concentration camps, D-Day). 1
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H.6.6.21. Conflict and Consensus: Explain the causes and effects of the Cold War in the United States: Chinese Cultural Revolution, McCarthyism, Cuban Missile Crisis, and arms race. 2
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H.6.6.22. Conflict and Consensus: Examine the following components of the Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Riders, sit-ins, organized marches, boycotts, school integration, and Ku Klux Klan (KKK). 7
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H.6.6.23. Conflict and Consensus: Explain segregation and desegregation as established by Supreme Court cases: Plessey v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education. 3
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H.6.6.24. Conflict and Consensus: Discuss the involvement of the United States in the Korean War. 1
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H.6.6.25. Conflict and Consensus: Discuss the major causes and effects of the Vietnam War (e.g., spread of communism). 10
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H.6.6.26. Conflict and Consensus: Discuss the ongoing conflicts between the United States and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. 2
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H.6.6.27. Conflict and Consensus: Examine acts of modern-day terrorism (e.g., Oklahoma City bombing, World Trade Center attacks). 8
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H.6.6.28. Movement: Describe the developments linking the east and west (e.g., Homestead Act, railroads, Pony Express, telegraph, cattle trails, and wagon trains). 10
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H.6.6.29. Movement: Analyze the following components of immigration to the United States: push/pull factors and settlement patterns. 4
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H.6.6.30. Movement: Explain the origins and accomplishments of labor unions. 2
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H.6.6.31. Movement: Explain the migration of African Americans northward before and during the Civil Rights movement. 8
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H.6.6.33. Cultural Diversity and Uniformity: Identify the cultural changes of the 1920s (e.g., Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age, fashion, Harlem Renaissance, talkies, flapper, Prohibition)). 3
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H.6.6.34. Cultural Diversity and Uniformity: Explain the social changes caused by World War II: women in the workforce, baby boom, and G.I. Bill. 2
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H.6.6.35. Cultural Diversity and Uniformity: Identify significant individuals whose lives impacted the Civil Rights movement (e.g., Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, Medgar Evers, Little Rock Nine, Thurgood Marshall). 6
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AR.E. Economics

E.7. Choices: Students shall analyze the costs and benefits of making economic choices.

E.7.6.1. Costs and Benefits: Examine how the economic wants and needs of all people may or may not be fulfilled. 2
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E.7.6.2. Costs and Benefits: Demonstrate an understanding that choices have both present and future consequences. 11
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E.7.6.3. Costs and Benefits: Examine the causes of scarcity and the choices made due to scarcity. 11
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E.7.6.4. Costs and Benefits: Explain that all decision making involves opportunity costs. 6
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E.7.6.5. Costs and Benefits: Explain why federal, state, and local governments have to make choices because of limited resources. 33
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E.7.6.6. Costs and Benefits: Discuss the decision making model to evaluate historical events. 11
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E.7.6.7. Costs and Benefits: Examine examples of traditional, market, and command economies. 2
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E.7.6.8. Costs and Benefits: Determine why trade-offs allow people to get the most from scarce resources. 2
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E.7.6.9. Costs and Benefits: Discuss the characteristics of a free enterprise system. 4
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E.8. Resources: Students shall evaluate the use and allocation of human, natural, and capital resources.

E.8.6.1. Factors of Production: Analyze the impact of entrepreneurship in the development of the economy of the United States. 4
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E.8.6.2. Factors of Production: Explain the result of increased productivity on an improved standard of living (e.g., assembly line, interchangeable parts, computers). 8
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E.8.6.3. Factors of Production: Explain how owners of the factors of production receive payments for the use of these factors: wages and salaries, rent, interest, and profit. 5
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E.8.6.4. Factors of Production: Evaluate the influences the discovery of natural resources has on the movement of people (e.g., gold, silver, oil). 4
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E.9. Markets: Students shall analyze the exchange of goods and services and the roles of governments, businesses, and individuals in the market place.

E.9.6.1. Financial Markets: Examine the characteristics of money: portability, divisibility, durability, and uniformity.

E.9.6.2. Financial Markets: Compare the various types of financial institutions that provide savings accounts: interest (rate of return) and safety. 2
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E.9.6.3. Financial Markets: Determine the advantages and disadvantages of saving or spending money. 2
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E.9.6.4. Financial Markets: Identify the purpose and function of the stock market. 2
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E.9.6.5. Financial Markets: Discuss the effects of economic inflation on the economic system of the United States.

E.9.6.6. Financial Markets: Discuss how the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the productivity of a nation. 4
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E.9.6.7. Financial Markets: Explain the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. 2
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E.9.6.8. Global Markets: Examine the costs/benefits associated with the development of global trade. 8
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E.9.6.9. Global Markets: Discuss various types of currency and their effects on the global economy. 8
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E.9.6.10. Goods and Services: Examine changes in supply and demand and the resulting effect on prices. 2
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E.9.6.11. Goods and Services: Discuss methods used to reduce or eliminate competition (e.g., trademarks, patents, copyrights, natural monopolies, government licenses). 13
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E.9.6.12. Goods and Services: Discuss the various marketing techniques: advertising, mail order catalog, and increasing demand for goods and services. 2
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