- Analyze the rise of the United States to a world “superpower” and how that status has shaped its internal developments in recent decades.
- Examine how changes in social and economic conditions and technology can cause corresponding changes in the attitudes of the people and policies of the government
- Summarize and discuss the ways that formal policies of government have influenced the direction of historical and social development in the United States.
- Explain the major turning points in American history since the Civil War.
