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Standards Index: Topic 9.1: Contextualizing Period 9
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Skill 4.B: Explain how a specific historical development or process is situated within a broader historical context.
Theme 5: Politics and Power (PCE).
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Public Policy: Welfare Reform
Students will learn how President Bill Clinton signed a welfare bill to reform a program created as part of the New Deal in 1935; and how the bill has reshaped the relationship between poor Americans and the government.
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The War on Drugs: The New Face of Heroin
Students will learn the origin and racial context of America’s multi-decade war on drugs, and the impact the changing demographics of heroin users have had on the debate and public policy.