NCES.AH1.H.5 - Understand how tensions between freedom, equality and power have shaped the political, economic and social development of the United States.
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American History I
Summarize how the philosophical, ideological and/or religious views on freedom and equality contributed to the development of American political and economic systems through Reconstruction (e.g., natural rights, First Great Awakening, Declaration of Independence, transcendentalism, suffrage, abolition, "slavery as a peculiar institution", etc.).