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Politics & Government

Politics & Government (P&G) is the study of the role power plays regulating citizens, nations, and society.

Game Theory

You Have To See It To Believe It

Pictionary is a drawing game that leaves players speechless. It doesn’t favor artists or scholars, but instead small groups who synchronize their minds to accomplish shared goals. But how does that happen? And why?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Context

What’s Your Intention?

Columbus made landfall on a few Caribbean islands in 1492. There, he met a few Native nations, noting they seemed submissive. Two centuries later, the combined population of North & South American Native nations, estimated to have been over 60 million, had declined by over 80%. Meanwhile, European agents were moving tens of millions of Africans to the Americas. How was any of this even possible?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Perspective

The Whole Is More Than the Sum of Its Parts

Fighting a war is hard work! Then again, forging a nation from scratch and creating a government to run it are completely different tasks. How did the 13 colonies pull it off? Perspective helps us explore how the Framers imagined a new way to live in community; a highly orchestrated approach that ensures our freedom. Theoretically.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Change

Federalists: For the Win

Between 1786-87, Shays's Rebellion rocked the newly formed United States, exposing the weaknesses of our first government, the Articles of Confederation. Whereby 4,000 farmers in rural Massachusetts, broke and busted, struggled under mounting debt. Meanwhile, many Framers stood by--watching, waiting, their hands tied--wanting to solve the crisis' underlying issues. Clearly, something had to change.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Conflict

Abomination

Tariffs are taxes that governments might add to imports. For Southern states swimming in sugar and capitalizing on cotton, two commodities based on enslaved labor, tariffs put an end to duty-free shopping. Meanwhile, Northern states hoped tariffs would force the South to buy their products, helping them industrialize and innovate. But how can any nation claim to be innovative when part of its economy is built on slave labor?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Pre-Game Booklets For All 10 Jams

Game Theory

Context

Perspective

Change

Conflict

Rights

Cooperation

Connection

Trust

Creativity

Rights

This Land Was Made for You & Me

The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked the US’ victory over Mexico, plus payment for vast regions of the American West—from Texas to California. Next, Congress struggled to determine which new states carved from those areas would accept slavery, and which would ban it. But was slavery the driving issue in the West?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Cooperation

Ain't I A Woman

When trying to create a more perfect union, is it more important to meet in the middle, or go for the win? In this JAM, students put Supreme Court decision, Dred Scott v. Sanford, into fuller context. Because for some people, at some point, compromise isn't an option.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Connection

14, 15

After the Civil War, the federal government had to step in to help the South rebuild. Except this wasn’t reconstruction; it was new construction. A chance to connect with our shared humanity, starting with the four cornerstones that support any democratic republic: natural laws, civics and civility, universal education, and entrepreneurship.

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Trust

Compromise of 1877

Reconstruction ended in 1877. Next, Southern states regained their autonomy and began sidestepping the 14th and 15th Amendments by unleashing segregationist laws. This begs the question, how do we live as one nation when we cannot trust every state to abide by the same federal laws, let alone the spirit of the law?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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Creativity

Bridges

When the Framers imagined the risks and rewards of constitutional government, they had to know states would buck the federal government when it suited them. But how would they know when to loosen the reins, and when to let go?

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  • Grades 4-5
  • 50 Minutes
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