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SS3H1 The student will explain the political roots of our modern democracy in the USA.

a. Identify the influence of Greek arcitecture (columns on the Parthenon, US Supreme Court building), law, and the Olympic Games on the present.

b. Explain the ancient Athenians' idea that a community should choose its own leaders.

c. Compare and contrast Athens as a direct democracy with the US as a representative democracy.

SS3H2 The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people's rights and freedoms in a democracy.

a. Paul Revere (independence)
Frederick Douglas (civil rights)
Susan B. Anthony (women's rights)
Mary M. Bethune (education)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (New Deal and WWII)
Eleanor Roosevelt (UN and human rights)
Thurgood Marshall (civil rights)
Lyndon B. Johnson (Great Society and voting rights)
Cesar Chavez (workers' rights)

b. Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and desribe how they overcame them.

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