How Economics Can Strengthen the Teaching of U.S. History
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How Economics Can Strengthen the Teaching of U.S. History
Council for Economic Education March 21, 2009
Mark C. Schug, Ph.D.University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Overview
Problems teaching history
How economic thinking might help
Features of Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History
Lesson 5 Demonstration
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Problems Teaching U.S. HistorySchools rely on U.S.
history to teachOur national identifyAn academic understanding
of our past But, history teaching is
criticized as beingBoring in content and
pedagogySuperficialTrivialRemote
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Problems Teaching U.S. History
Students usually take 6 semesters of U.S. history:Grade 5: 2 semestersGrade 8: 2 semestersGrade 11: 2 semesters
Yet, national tests show that achievement in history is low.
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U.S. History Achievement Levels: 1994, 2001, 2006 NAEP
Level Grade 41994 2001 2006
Grade 81994 2001 2006
Grade 121994 2001 2006
At Adv.
2% 2% 2% 1% 2% 1% 1% 1% 1%
At or Above Prof.
17% 18% 18% 14% 17% 17% 11% 11% 13%
At or Above Basic
64% 66% 70% 61% 62% 65% 43% 43% 47%
Below Basic
36% 34% 30% 39% 38% 35% 57% 57% 53%
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Civics Achievement Levels: 1994, 2001, NAEP
Level GRADE 41998 2006
GRADE 8 1998 2006
GRADE 12 1998 2006
AtAdvanced
2% 2% 2% 2% 4% 5%
At or AboveProficient
23% 24% 22% 22% 26% 27%
At or Above Basic
69% 73% 70% 70% 65% 66%
Below Basic 31% 27% 30% 30% 35% 34%
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Economics Achievement Levels: 2006, NAEP
Level Grade 12
At Advanced 3%
At or Above Proficient 42%
At or Above Basic 79%
Below Basic 21%
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What Can Economics Contribute?
Economics stresses the idea that all people make choices.
But, they don’t know at the time what the consequences of their choices will be.
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Individual Choices
All social phenomena emerge from the choices that individuals make in response to expected costs and benefits to themselves. Paul Heyne
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John Maynard Keynes
The inevitable never happens. It is always the unexpected.
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Who Would Have Predicted in 1980?
The collapse of the Soviet Union.
The reunification of Germany.
Nelson Mandela becoming President of South Africa.
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Who Would Have Predicted in 1980?
Economic stagnation in Japan in the 1990s.
Record U.S. economic expansion in the 1990s.
An attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11.
All-out war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Who Would Have Predicted in 1980?
The financial collapse of 2008 and the 2009.
An African American President of the United States in 2009.
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They Didn’t Know How It Would All Turn Out
In writing history or biography, you must remember that nothing was on track. Things could have gone any way at any point. As soon as you say “was” it seems to fix an event in the past. But nobody ever lived in the past, only the present.TALKING HISTORY WITH: David McCullough; Immersed in Facts, The Better to Imagine Harry Truman's Life By ESTHER B. FEIN Published: August 12, 1992 New York Times
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They Didn’t Know How It Would Turn Out
The difference is that it was their present. They were just as alive and full of ambition, fear, hope and all the emotions of life. And, just like us, they didn’t know how it would all turn out.
The challenge is to get the reader [student] beyond the thinking that things had to be the way they turned out and to see the range of possibilities of how it could have been otherwise.David McCullough
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The Economic Way of Thinking
Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History introduces students to the economic way of thinking. It stresses how people at the time were
making choices in response to anticipated benefits and costs.
This approach allows students to be “present-minded” about the past.
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Introduction to the Economic Way of Thinking
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Guide to Economic Reasoning
Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History uses six principles of economic reasoning to solve mysteries in U.S. history.
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Guide to Economic Reasoning
1. People choose.2. People’s choices involve costs.3. People respond to incentives in
predictable ways.4. People create economic systems that
influence individual choices and incentives.
5. People gain when they trade voluntarily.6. People’s choices have consequences
that lie in the future.
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Why Did the Colonists Fight
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Why Did the Colonists Fight?
At first glance the American Revolution seemed inevitable:Sugar Act in 1764Stamp Act in 1765Tea Act in 1763
Neither side was willing to back down.
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The Colonists Were Safe
Colonists lived in relative safety due to British military protection.Royal Navy
protected American shipping.
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The Colonists Were Safe
The British spent heavily to protect the colonies from French forces and their Indians allies.The French and
Indian War lasted from 1755-1763.
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By today’s standards colonial life was rough. But by the standards of their own time, colonists enjoyed a high quality of life.Growth of productionLived longer than mostAverage incomes were
as high or higher than in England
Better educated
The Colonists Were Prosperous
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The Colonists Were Prosperous
“Even today, relatively few countries generate average income levels that approach the earnings of free Americans on the eve of the Revolution.” (Walton and Rockhoff, 2002)
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The Colonists Were Free
The colonies were a long way from Britain.
Transportation and communications were slow.
English authorities were inclined to leave the colonists more or less alone.
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The Colonists Were Free
Samuel Eliot Morison (1965) writes “British subjects in America … were then the freest people in the world.”Practiced in self governmentFreedom of speech, press and assembly.
“The hand of government rested lightly on Americans.”
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Lesson 7: Mystery The British colonies in
America grew and prospered. Since the colonists were economically successful under British rule, why did they seek independence?
Why would colonists fight a revolution against Great Britain, one of the world’s most powerful nations and, in many ways, when it was safe, prosperous and free?
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Apply the Guide to Economic Reasoning
1. People choose.2. People’s choices involve costs.3. People respond to incentives in
predictable ways.4. People create economic systems that
influence individual choices and incentives.
5. People gain when they trade voluntarily.6. People’s choices have consequences
that lie in the future.
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People Choose
The colonists decided that fighting the Revolution offered the best combination of benefits and costs they could attain.
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People’s Choices Involve Costs
Questions of cost loomed large.
They risked losing: Guaranteed market for
some goods. Subsidies and
bounties. Military protection
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People Respond to Incentives
After 1763, new taxes and regulations became more restrictive. Sugar Act Stamp Act Tea Act
These actions provided an incentive to fight.
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People Create Economic Systems
The Navigation Acts (1651, 1660, 1663) changed the rules of the game.
Britain was more willing to enforce the rules resulting in higher prices for colonists.
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People Create Economic Systems
Trade was allowed only in American or British vessels.
All imports were through British ports.
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People Create Economic Systems
Enumerated goods (tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, rice, and naval stores) from the colonies could only be shipped to England.
Townsend Act placed new taxes on tea, glass and paper.
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People Create Economic Systems
Agricultural land was very important to many colonists.
Quebec Act of 1774 Enlarged the size of
Quebec. Destroyed western
land claims of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Virginia.
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People Gain from Voluntary Trade
Trade was very important to the colonial economy.
Colonial producers saw Britain’s tightening mercantile policy as an obstacle to free trade.
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Future Consequences
Changes in British policy increased the risk that the future would not be as safe, prosperous and free as the past had been. Economic growth
was in doubt. Self-government
was threatened.
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Solve the Mystery
The colonists fought the Revolution because benefits they had obtained - - especially prosperity and self-government - - were threatened.
The prospect of fighting to secure these benefits for the future outweighed the other choices.
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Table of Contents
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Unit 1 Three Worlds Meet1. The New World Was an Old World2. Property Rights Among North American
Indians
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Unit Two: Colonization and Settlement3. Why Do Economies Grow? 4. Understanding the Colonial Economy in
a Global Context 5. Indentured Servitude: Why Sell Yourself
into Bondage?6. Specialization and Trade in the Thirteen
Colonies
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Unit Three: Revolution and the New Nation
7. The Costs and Benefits of American Independence
8. Problems under the Articles of Confederation
9. The U.S. Constitution: Rules of the Game
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Unit Four: Expansion and Reform10. Rising Living Standards in the New
Nation11. How Did Cotton Become King? 12. Francis Cabot Lowell and the New
England Textile Industry
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13. Improving Transportation 14. Investing in American Growth15. Why Did the Indians of the Great
Plains Invite White Americans into Their Land?
16. Andrew Jackson and the Second Bank of the United States
17. Free the Enslaved and Avoid the War
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Unit Five: Civil War and Reconstruction18. Why Did the South Secede? 19. Economic Analysis of the Civil War
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Unit Six: The Development of the Industrial United States
20. Was Free Land a Good Deal?21. The Changing U.S. Economy 22. The Demand for Immigrants23. Bigger Is Better: The Economics of
Mass Production
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24. Industrial Entrepreneurs or Robber Barons?
25. The Economic Effects of the 19th Century Monopoly
26. Could the U.S. Economy Have Grown Without the Railroads?
27. Free Silver or a Cross of Gold
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Unit Seven: The Emergence of Modern America
28. Money Panics and the Establishment of the Federal Reserve System
29. Who Should Make the Food Safe?
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Unit Eight: The Great Depression and World War II
30. Whatdunit? The Great Depression Mystery
31. Did the New Deal Help or Harm Recovery?
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32. We Shall Not Be Moved33. When the Boys Came Marching Home34. Women in the US Workforce
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Unit Nine: Postwar United States35. The Economics of Racial
Discrimination36. The No-Good Seventies
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Unit Ten: Contemporary United States37. The Hispanic Americans38. The Knowledge- and Technology-
Based Economy of Today39. World Trade after World War II: The
EU, NAFTA and the WTO
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Indentured Servitude: Why Sell Yourself into Bondage?
Lesson 5
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Visual 5.1 Background on Indentured Servants
Contracts Indentured servants' contracts bound them to perform
work for an employer in North America. These contracts had the force of law, and they were
enforced. Contracts typically called for three-to-seven years of
service. The average period of service was four years. Early in the colonial period, women were offered
somewhat shorter contracts than men. Contracts for harder work, such as growing tobacco ,
were often for shorter terms than contracts for easier work, such as performing household duties.
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Visual 5.1 Background on Indentured Servants
How the System Worked Ordinarily a person
would sign with a ship owner or a recruiting agent in England.
As soon as the servant was delivered alive to an American port, the contract would be sold to a planter or merchant.
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Visual 5.2 Why Would Free People Sell Themselves into Bondage?
Why Would Free People Sell Themselves into Bondage? Many workers in colonial North America were
indentured servants. The work they performed was often difficult—clearing
land, planting tobacco, performing household services.
The contracts signed by indentured servants had the force of law. Terms of service could be increased, for example, if a worker
violated the indenture by trying to run away. Servants could even be sold to other owners.
Why would people sell themselves into bondage?
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Activity 5.2 Indentured Servitude in North America
Patrick McHugh Costs? Benefits?William Heaton Costs? Benefits?Mary Morgan Costs? Benefits?
Tom Holyfield Costs? Benefits?Christian Mueller Costs? Benefits?
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Would You Sell Your Labor?
Would you agree to perform two years of community service in exchange for a significant reduction in college tuition?
Costs? Benefits?
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Other Mysteries in U.S. History
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Lesson 2: Mystery
American Indians are widely supposed to have favored common ownership rather than private property.
Like people everywhere, however, American Indians distinguished between private and public ownership.
Why did they decide to use private property in some cases but public ownership in others?
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Lesson 4 Mystery The American colonies were an unlikely candidate for
economic success. There was no gold and silver and no spices to
trade. England held sway as a primary source of
manufactured goods. Colonial America did possess land and other
natural resources, but labor was not abundant. Eventually, however, the colonists lived longer and better
than the populations of other nations and places at the time.
Why?
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Lesson 18: Mystery
In light of the economic advantages of the North over the South, it seems in retrospect almost irrational for the South to have engaged the North militarily. Why did the South secede?
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Lesson 24: Mystery
During the late 19th century, industrialization proceeded rapidly in the U.S. Men like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and the Cornelius Vanderbilt pioneered the way.
Were these men “Robber Barons” or industrial entrepreneurs?
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Lesson 33: Mystery
People feared that the end of World War II would be followed by a return to depression.
Instead, the years that followed the war brought rising prosperity and an unprecedented expansion of the American middle class.
Why did the economy expand after World War II rather than falling into a new depression?
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References for Teaching Economics in History
Focus: Understanding Economics in U.S. History
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Research on Focus: U.S. History Table 1: Descriptive Statistics for Pre- and Post-Test 1
Group
Mean Score Before U.S. History
Mean Score After U.S. History
Change in Predicted Direction?
Paired sample t-statistic
p-Value (2-Tailed Test)
Control Group
13.26(4.24)n=150
13.66(4.33)n=150
Yes (no statistically significant change)
-1.465p=0.145
Group that Used U.S. History
13.49(4.65)n=353
18.85(10.57)n=353
Yes(change is statistically significant)
-9.977p<0.000
1 Schug, M.C. & Niederjohn, M.S. (2008). Can Students Learn Economics in U.S. History? Journal of Private Enterprise, 23 (2), 167-176
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Teaching Economics in U.S. History
Social Education, March 2007
Edited by Mark Schug and Richard Western
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Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
Edited by Richard Sutch and Susan Carter with contributions from 200 other scholarsCambridge University Press2006
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History of the American Economy
Gary M. Walton and Hugh RockoffSouth-Western Thompson Learning
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American Economic History
Jonathan Hughes and Louis P. CainPearson Education, Inc.
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An Entrepreneurial History of the United States
Gerald GundersonBeard Books
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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas SowellBasic Books
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Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should know About Wealth and Prosperity
James Gwartney, Richard Stroup and Dwight LeeSt. Martin’s Press
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Christmas Riddles What do elves learn
in school? What do you call
Santa’s motorcycle? Why does Santa
have 3 gardens? What do snowmen
eat for breakfast? Where do snowmen
keep their money?
The elf-abet
A Holly Davidson
So he can ho, ho, ho!
Frosted flakes
In a snow bank
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Christmas Riddles
Where snowmen go to dance?
What you call a person who is afraid of Santa Claus.
Parents favorite Christmas carol?
Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
A snow ball
A Claustropbic
Silent Night
He had low elf-esteem.