1. Free Trade
Connection to the Claim: Students investigate the goals, implementation and impact of US foreign policy on other nations, domestic society and individuals.
Claim: What is the global impact of one nation’s foreign policy?
Sub-claim: Analyze the cost and benefits of trade agreements?

2. Academic Vocabulary
NAFTA -The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico designed to remove tariff barriers between the three countries.
Global economy - The economy of the world, considered as the international exchange of goods and services that is expressed in monetary units of account.
Interdependence - The participants in any economic system must be part of a trading network to obtain the products they cannot produce efficiently for themselves.
Trade Deficit -A country's imports exceeds its exports. A trade deficit represents an outflow of domestic currency to foreign markets.

3. Part 1: Foreign Policy
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4. Foreign Policy is:
Policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives
The goals that a state’s officials seek to attain abroad, the values that give rise to those objectives, and the means or instruments used to pursue them

5. “What goals does the US seek to achieve when it interacts with other states?”

6. Close Readings
Compelling Question: What are the cost and benefits of trade agreements?