Unit 8 Remediation

Unit 8: LA Government and Economics Remediation

AMMS 6th Grade Social Studies

SS6CG1: Compare and contrast various forms of government.  

a. Explain citizen participation in autocratic, and democratic governments. [i.e. the role of citizens in choosing the leaders of Mexico (presidential democracy), Cuba (autocratic), and Brazil (presidential democracy)].  

SS6CG1: Compare and contrast various forms of government.  

b. Describe the two predominant forms of democratic governments:             

     parliamentary and presidential 

Parliamentary Democracy	​Presidential Democracy
People vote in elections for the legislative branch. The largest political party in the legislative branch selects the leader of the country's government. The leader of the government in a parliamentary democracy is called a prime minister.	​People vote in elections for both the legislative and the executive branch. The leader of the government in a presidential democracy is a president.

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Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil's governments have some similarities and some differences. Mexico and Brazil have ​ ​

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. Cuba has a ​

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. All three countries have ​

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to select their ​

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. Unlike Brazil and Mexico where the people elect the president directly, Cubans do not get to choose their leader; the ​

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of Cuba chooses the leader they call a "president."

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presidential democracies

communist dictatorship

elections

representatives

communist party

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People elect the president of Brazil directly

People elect representatives to Brazil's National Congress.

Citizens of Brazil have rights like freedom of speech.

People elect the president of Mexico directly

People elect representatives to Mexico's National Congress

Citizens of Mexico have rights like freedom of spech

The Cuba Communist Party chooses Cuba's "President."

People elect representatives to Cuba's National Assembly of People's Power.

Cuba restricts freedoms, such as freedom of speech.

All 3 countries have elections for legislature.

All 3 call their leader president

Organize these options into the right categories

Brazil

Mexico

Cuba

Similarities

SS6E1 Analyze different economic systems.  

a. Compare how traditional, command, and market economies answer the economic questions of 1-what to produce, 2-how to produce, and 3-for whom to produce

​How the economic systems answer the three economic questions (read the table):

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Options (12)

Produce basic necessities for survival

Use traditions and beliefs to produce products

Provide for all members of community; trade goods

Buyers and sellers choose what to produce

Sellers (producers) decide how to make products

People can pay or can't pay seller's price

The government decides what to produce

The government decides how to make products

The government decides what people can have.

The govt. and the market decide what to produce

The govt. and the market decide how to produce.

The govt. and the market decide how to buy things.

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Traditional Economies

Market Economies

Command Economies

Mixed Economies

SS6E1 Analyze different economic systems. 
b. Explain that countries have a mixed economic system located on a continuum between pure market and pure command.  

c. Compare and contrast the basic types of economic systems found in Mexico, Cuba, and Brazil. 

​the economic continuum

Reorder

Place the economies into order based on the most COMMAND to the least COMMAND

• Cuba

• Brazil

• Mexico

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2

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SS6E2 Give examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Latin America.  

a. Explain how specialization encourages trade between countries.

All countries exchange goods, services, and resources with other countries. When countries do this for mutual benefit, it is called voluntary trade. It helps to meet the needs of the people in the country!

When countries can make something better, faster, and at a lower cost than another country, they are said to specialize in that good or service. It's their specialization.

Multiple Choice

When countries exchange goods or services that mutually benefit each other, this is called:

• Voluntary Trade

• Trade Barriers

• Specialization

SS6E2 Give examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Latin America.
b. Compare and contrast different types of trade barriers, such as  tariffs, embargos and quotas. 

​Trade barriers try to restrict or slow down trade between countries. This can be to protect a country's own market for certain products or to convince another country to change decisions or policies they have made in the past. There are different types of trade barriers. See below:

Match

Match the descriptions to the correct trade barrier

• Tariff

• Embargo

• Quota

• All Trade Barriers

Tax on Imports

Stops / Blocks all trade

Limits imports by number

Restrict trade

• Tax on Imports

• Stops / Blocks all trade

• Limits imports by number

• Restrict trade

SS6E2 Give examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Latin America.  
c. Explain why international trade requires a system for exchanging currencies 

  between nations.

Most countries have different money systems from the countries they trade with called currencies. The value of the money for each country is linked with how strong their economy is. This means that not all currencies are worth the same amount. To work through this, banks have created ways to exchange currencies for other currencies.

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When someone travels to a foreign country, and he or she wants to buy or trade there, he or she will have to

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to complete his or her purchase.

SS6E2 Give examples of how voluntary trade benefits buyers and sellers in Latin America.
d. Explain the functions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  

The US, Mexico, and Canada signed an agreement called NAFTA in 1994 to get rid of tariffs on trade between the three countries. This led to an increase of trade, increased availability of products at cheaper prices, but also the losses of many jobs in the United States. The agreement was renegotiated into the US, Mexico, and Canada Agreement in 2020.

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following effects of NAFTA led to the renegotiation of NAFTA into the USMCA?

• Losses of jobs in the USA

• Cheaper Prices for Products

• Buying avocados year round

SS6E3 Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.  

a. Evaluate how literacy rates affect the standard of living.  

​People who can read and write get better paying jobs. People who earn a higher income can buy nicer products and afford larger homes. This means they have a higher standard of living in a country when the literacy rate is high.

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People who can read and write get better ​

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jobs. People who earn a higher income can ​

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nicer products and afford larger homes. This means they have a higher ​

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in a country when the ​

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is high.

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paying

buy

standard of living

literacy rate

SS6E3 Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.  

b. Explain the relationship between investment in human capital (education and training) and gross domestic product (GDP per capita).  

Countries that invest in education or skills training for their citizens develop a stronger economy with a higher GDP (and GDP per Capita). Countries that invest in human capital have more populations capable of producing more and higher quality products (i.e. cars instead of mangos).

Multiple Choice

If a country has a stronger GDP after investing in education, this is partially because the country invested in

• human capital

• capital goods

• natural resources

• entrepreneurship

SS6E3 Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.  

c. Explain the relationship between investment in capital goods (factories, machinery, and technology) and gross domestic product (GDP per capita).

Countries that invest (or have private businesses invest) in updated technology, factories, and machines can produce more products than countries with outdate technology and factories. This means countries that invest in capital goods will be more productive and have higher GDPs than countries who do not.

Multiple Choice

What would happen to a country's GDP if companies moved there and opened up brand new factories?

• The GDP would increase because of the new capital goods

• The GDP would decrease because of the new capital goods

• The GDP would increase because of the untrained workforce

• The GDP would decrease because of the untrained workforce.

SS6E3 Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.  

d. Describe the role of natural resources in a country’s economy.

Natural resources are raw materials that are found in nature. Countries with many natural resources can create products with them. They can export the natural resources to other countries. Some countries trade resources for other resources their own country does not have.

Multiple Select

Select three ways natural resources play a role in a country's economy.

• They can be used to make products.

• They can be used to export for profit.

• They can be exchanged with other countries for resources.

• They can be used to increase human capital.

Countries that encourage entrepreneurship help grow their economies. Their businesses, products, and services help increase the GDP in a country.

Role of Entrepreneurship

Someone who creates a small business, product, service, or idea.

Definition of Entrepreneurship

SS6E3 Describe factors that influence economic growth and examine their presence or absence in Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico.  

e. Describe the role of entrepreneurship. 

Multiple Choice

Which country would have the least amount of entrepreneurship?

• Mexico

• Brazil

• Cuba