14.5.22  Identify the significance of key American symbols, including national symbols (e.g., U.S. flag, bald eagle, Statue of Liberty, White House, U.S. Capitol, and Liberty Bell) and state symbols (e.g., state flag, motto, and location of state capital); demonstrate understanding of proper care and handling of the U.S. flag.
14.5.25: Identify roles and functions of Illinois state and local governments.
14.5.26  Identify the rights of Illinois citizens.
14.5.27  Identify how individuals can change Illinois government policies.
15.5.06  Understand that consumers make choices in an environment of limited resources and understand why people are both consumers and producers.
15.5.07  Define the concept of supply and demand and describe how changes in supply and demand affect prices of specific products.
15.5.13  Understand the impact of changes in the quantity or goods/services supplied (supply) on its price.
15.5.14  Understand the impact of changes in price of a good/service on the quantity supplied (supply).
15.5.15  Identify how entrepreneurs take risks in order to produce goods or services and make a return on an investment. 
15.5.19: Identify governments as the providers of public goods and services (e.g. schools, roads, and fire protection).
15.5.21  Know that governments establish and use budgets.
15.5.23  Understand how the law of supply and demand affects prices for Illinois industrial and agricultural products.
15.5.24  Identify goods and services produced in Illinois.
15.5.25  Identify division of labor and interdependence in the Illinois economy.
15.5.26  Understand how decisions about education and careers reflect incomes in Illinois. 
16.5.16  Identify significant accomplishments of individuals, groups , or events and their impact on early westward expansion of the nation, including: the Lewis and Clark expedition, Daniel Boone, “mountain men,” pioneers, and the Gold Rush.
16.5.41  Understand the origins and course of the Civil Rights movement, including the roles of individual American citizens in the civil rights movement, including: federal intervention in Little Rock, Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
16.5.92: Identify the environmental factors that drew settlers to Illinois and the surrounding region.
16.5.95  Identify significant historical events and individuals in Illinois history, including: the Illini; French colonization; the French and Indian War; George Rogers Clark and the American Revolution; Jean-Baptist-Point DuSable and the origins of Chicago; the War of 1812 and the Massacre at Fort Dearborn; Erie Canal immigration; the Blackhawk War of 1832; the introduction of railroads; Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and the Civil War; the founding of University of Illinois in 1867; the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; Cyrus McCormick; John Deere; Jane Addams' Hull House; the 1893 World's Fair; Illinois citizens see the world in World War I; Prohibition and crime in the Roaring 20s; Depression; Illinois industry and the atomic bomb in World War II; ; the Illinois experience with the civil rights movement; highway, rail, and air transportation in Illinois; the global economy; the development of Chicago as a major center for trade.
17.5.15: Analyze how the physical features of IL have affected the settlement patterns of the state.