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)

Types of U.S. Government

GENERAL CURRICULUM TEST OBJECTIVE : 0006  Understand major developments in the history of the United States from precolonial times to the present.

  • Recognize key developments in the formation of the national government.

Powers delegated to the federal government are of types expressed which are clearly stated and implied which can be inferred from what is stated and are not clearly published.

These federal expressed powers are: 1) to tax; 2) to borrow and create money; 3) to establish a postal service; 4) to grant patents and copyrights; 5) to regulate interstate and foreign commerce; 6) to establish courts; 7) to declare war; 8) to raise and support the armed forces; 9) to govern territories; 10) to define and punish felonies and piracy on the high seas; 11) to fix standards for weights and measures which means promotes uniformity in U.S. weights and measures laws, regulations, and standards to achieve equity; 12) to conduct foreign affairs

These federal implied powers are: 1) to establish banks or other corporations, implied from delegated powers to tax, to borrow, and to regulate commerce; 2) to spend money for roads, schools, health, insurance, etc., implied from powers to establish roads, to tax to provide for general welfare and defense, and to regulate commerce; 3) to create military academies, implied from powers to raise and support an armed force; 4) to locate and generate sources of power and sell surplus, implied from powers to dispose of government property, commerce, and war powers; 5) to assist and regulate agriculture, implied from power to tax and spend for general welfare and to regulate commerce

Powers reserved to the state governments: 1) to regulate intrastate trade; 2) to establish local governments; 3) to protect general welfare; 4) to protect life and property; 5) to ratify amendments; 6) to conduct elections; 7) to make state and local laws

Both the federal and the state goverments share certain powers and these powers are called concurrent powers. These shared powers are: 1) both congress and the states may tax; 2) both congress and the states may borrow money, 3) both may charter banks and corporations; 4) both may establish courts; 5) both may make and enforce laws; 6) both may take property for public purposes; 7) both may spend money to provide for the public welfare

Source: MTEL General Curriculum, 2nd edition (2013), by Wynne Sharon,  pp. 190-191
Author: Janet Painter
Last modified: 10/3/2016 10:56 AM (EDT)