Nebraska Standards for 'Limiting trade**'
Social Studies 12.1.2
Students will analyze and explain the events and ideas of the Early National Period.
Example Indicators:
- Summarize the economic development, trade, tariffs, taxation, and trends in the national debt.
Social Studies 12.1.3
Students will analyze the causes and effects of major events of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Example Indicators:
- Discuss the causes and effects of slavery.
- Discuss tariffs and trade.
- Describe the settlement of the Western United States.
- Discuss the economic and political impact of the war.
- Relate the impact of Reconstruction policies on the South.
Social Studies 12.3.13
Students will examine the basic economic indicators and fundamentals of international trade.
Example Indicators:
- Define Gross Domestic Product
- Define Consumer Price Index, employment statistics, and other measure of economic conditions.
- Explain comparative and absolute advantage.
- Discuss exchange rates.
- Explain international trade policies, and the United States relationship to the global economy.
