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Module 1: Foundations and Civic Participation

5 dot points across 5 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do political parties, interest groups, and the media create opportunities for civic involvement?

Explain how opportunities for civic engagement are made possible through political and public policy processes, and how political parties, interest groups, and the media provide opportunities for civic involvement (Ohio AG content statements 1 and 2: Civic Involvement).
An Ohio American Government EOC answer on civic involvement: how political and public policy processes open the door to engagement, and how political parties, interest groups, and the media give citizens ways to take part, with worked EOC-style questions.
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How do citizens participate in a democracy, and how do they analyze public issues using credible sources?

Analyze how citizens engage in civic participation, including the use of credible sources to study public issues and the roles of persuasion, compromise, consensus building, and negotiation in the democratic process (Ohio AG content statements 3 and 4: Civic Participation and Skills).
An Ohio American Government EOC answer on civic participation and skills: how citizens use credible sources to analyze public issues, and how persuasion, compromise, consensus building, and negotiation drive the democratic process, with worked EOC-style questions.
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What core ideas and documents form the foundation of American government?

Identify the foundational ideas of American government, including natural rights, popular sovereignty, the social contract, limited government, and the rule of law, and the documents that supplied them (Ohio AG: foundations underlying the Civic Participation and Basic Principles topics).
An Ohio American Government EOC answer on the foundations of American government: natural rights, popular sovereignty, the social contract, limited government, and the rule of law, and the Enlightenment thinkers and founding documents that supplied them, with worked EOC-style questions.
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How has the United States balanced majority rule with the protection of minority rights?

Analyze how the United States has struggled with majority rule and the extension of minority rights, and how government has increasingly extended civil rights to marginalized groups and broadened opportunities for participation (Ohio AG content statement 15: Role of the People in Democracy).
An Ohio American Government EOC answer on majority rule and minority rights: why a democracy needs both, how the United States has struggled to balance them, and how civil rights have been extended to marginalized groups over time, with worked EOC-style questions.
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What rights protect people from undue government interference, and what responsibilities go with them?

Explain that people in the United States have rights that protect them from undue governmental interference, and that rights carry responsibilities that define how people use their rights and require respect for the rights of others (Ohio AG content statement 14: Role of the People in Democracy).
An Ohio American Government EOC answer on the rights and responsibilities of citizens: the rights that limit government, the difference between a duty and a responsibility, and how using a right responsibly means respecting the rights of others, with worked EOC-style questions.
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