Virginia SOL CE.13.g
The Standard
evaluating how and why governments regulate industry, labor, competition, and monopolies in the marketplace.
Virginia Standards of Learning for History and Social Science · The student will apply history and social science skills to analyze the role of government in the United States economy by
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify government actions that set rules for businesses, protect workers and consumers, preserve competition, and limit monopoly power. They use evidence to judge why a regulation exists and whether its benefits outweigh its costs.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a marketplace problem, students can match it to a reasonable government response, such as safety rules, labor laws, or antitrust action. They explain likely effects on consumers, workers, businesses, prices, and competition, then support a judgment with evidence.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every large company is an illegal monopoly or that all monopolies are banned. They may also assume regulation always lowers prices, helps everyone equally, or comes only from the federal government.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A single company buys every local bus service and raises fares. Name one government response, explain its purpose, and judge one likely benefit and cost.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Run a token market, then add a safety rule, minimum wage, and antitrust action; students track prices, choices, and worker outcomes.
Students answer: Who benefits from a factory safety rule, who pays, and is the rule justified?
Play Regulation Match with cards for child labor, food safety, price fixing, and monopolies matched to government responses and reasons.
Inspect food labels from home, identify required information, and explain how labeling rules protect buyers while adding costs for producers.
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Related Standards
- CE.11.c
comparing and contrasting free-market, command, and mixed economies to determine how each affects the allocation of limited resources and the subsequent effects...
- CE.13.f
describing how governments regulate commerce to protect consumers, the environment, competition in the marketplace, and property rights; and
- CE.13.a
examining the effect of competition in the marketplace;
- CE.12.b
describing the critical components of the United States economy, such as limited government, private property, markets, consumer sovereignty, and competition;
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