Analyzing Select one of the policy areas from your completed graphic organizer and analyze the current policies and programs that address that policy area.

Determining Cause and Effect What were the effects of the Great Depression on income security and health care programs?

Summarizing Use your completed graphic organizer to summarize the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act of $1965$ and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of $1986$. How did these laws bring about changes in American culture?

Explaining What is the significance of citizen suits in U.S. environmental policy?

Describing Use your completed graphic organizer to create a slideshow explaining the work of three of the government agencies described in this lesson.

"But when workers get higher wages and more civilized working conditions through the free market, when they get them by firms competing with one another for the best workers, by workers competing with one another for the best jobs, those higher wages are at nobody's expense. They can only come from higher productivity, greater capital investment, more widely diffused skills. The whole pie is bigger, there is more for the worker, but there's also more for the employer, the investor, the consumer and even the tax collector." -Milton Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement(Mariner Books, $1990$)

Drawing Inferences Based on the views expressed in this passage, would Friedman support or oppose right-to-work laws? Explain.

"But when workers get higher wages and more civilized working conditions through the free market, when they get them by firms competing with one another for the best workers, by workers competing with one another for the best jobs, those higher wages are at nobody's expense. They can only come from higher productivity, greater capital investment, more widely diffused skills. The whole pie is bigger, there is more for the worker, but there's also more for the employer, the investor, the consumer and even the tax collector." -Milton Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement(Mariner Books, $1990$)

Identifying Frame of Reference and Bias What is Friedman's frame of reference? Does this passage reflect a liberal or conservative bias? Explain.

Review the description of lyric poetry on page 791. Then identify the characteristics of a lyric poem found in "The Lorelei."

Analyzing What education policy did the government implement through the G.I. bills of rights? How do you think this policy affected the American culture after World War II?

Identifying Perspectives What are the Common Core Standards and what are some arguments for and against these standards?

Identifying Cause and Effect How did the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families legislation reform the welfare system?

Making Inferences Why does government intervene to stabilize prices in the agriculture industry?

Analyzing Cause and Effect What are likely consequences for consumers if monopolies were allowed to flourish in our economy?

Analyzing What is the quote in the cartoon saying about equality under the law?