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Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.5 Students explain the causes of the American Revolution.

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Know the significance of the first and second Continental Congresses and of the Committees of Correspondence.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.5 Students explain the causes of the American Revolution.

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Understand the people and events associated with the drafting and signing of the Declaration of Independence and the document’s significance, including the key political concepts it embodies, the origins of those concepts, and its role in severing ties with Great Britain.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.5 Students explain the causes of the American Revolution.

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Describe the views, lives, and impact of key individuals during this period (e.g., King George III, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams).

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Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.6 Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.

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Identify and map the major military battles, campaigns, and turning points of the Revolutionary War, the roles of the American and British leaders, and the Indian leaders’ alliances on both sides.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.6 Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.

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Describe the contributions of France and other nations and of individuals to the outcome of the Revolution (e.g., Benjamin Franklin’s negotiations with the French, the French navy, the Treaty of Paris, The Netherlands, Russia, the Marquis Marie Joseph de Lafayette, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.6 Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.

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Identify the different roles women played during the Revolution (e.g., Abigail Adams, Martha Washington, Molly Pitcher, Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.6 Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.

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Understand the personal impact and economic hardship of the war on families, problems of financing the war, wartime inflation, and laws against hoarding goods and materials and profiteering.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.6 Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.

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Explain how state constitutions that were established after 1776 embodied the ideals of the American Revolution and helped serve as models for the U.S. Constitution.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.6 Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution.

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Demonstrate knowledge of the significance of land policies developed under the Continental Congress (e.g., sale of western lands, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787) and those policies’ impact on American Indians’ land.