NC General Curriculum for Elementary Educator License Help Site: History and Social Science

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  2. Indigenous Peoples Before the Arrival of Europeans
  3. European Exploration
  4. Colonization
  5. The Revolutionary War
  6. Key Developments in the Formation of the National Government (including Founding Documents)
    1. Founding Documents
    2. Types of U.S. Government
      1. Three Branches of Government
        1. Legislative Branch (Federal, State)
        2. Judicial Branch (Federal, State)
        3. Executive Branch (Federal, State)
    3. Responsibilities of U.S. Citizenship
  7. Settlement of the West and Overseas Expansion
  8. The Civil War and Reconstruction
  9. The Industrial Revolution
  10. The Progressive Era, Depression, and the New Deal
  11. Emergence of U.S. as a world power
  12. Civil Rights
  13. U.S. world leadership (collapse of Soviet Union to the present)
  14. World History (Major Developments and Key People)
  15. Geography
  16. Economics (Basic Terms and Issues)
  17. Interactive Sites (Survey Sites that Cover Multiple Time Periods)

Three Branches of Government

GENERAL CURRICULUM TEST OBJECTIVE : 0007  Understand the founding documents and governmental systems of the United States; the principles, ideals, rights, and responsiblities of U.S. Citizenship

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the three branches of the U.S. government and analyze their roles and functions.

 Different parts of the United States goverment, having their own specific powers, were designed to balance and check one another so that no one part could become too powerful. There are three branches on each level of the federal, state and local governments.

 

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Author: Janet Painter
Last modified: 10/3/2016 10:56 AM (EDT)