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Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

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Understand the influence of location and physical setting on the founding of the original 13 colonies, and identify on a map the locations of the colonies and of the American Indian nations already inhabiting these areas.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

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Identify the major individuals and groups responsible for the founding of the various colonies and the reasons for their founding (e.g., John Smith, Virginia; Roger Williams, Rhode Island; William Penn, Pennsylvania; Lord Baltimore, Maryland; William Bradford, Plymouth; John Winthrop, Massachusetts).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

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Describe the religious aspects of the earliest colonies (e.g., Puritanism in Massachusetts, Anglicanism in Virginia, Catholicism in Maryland, Quakerism in Pennsylvania).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

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Identify the significance and leaders of the First Great Awakening, which marked a shift in religious ideas, practices, and allegiances in the colonial period, the growth of religious toleration, and free exercise of religion.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

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Understand how the British colonial period created the basis for the development of political self-government and a free-market economic system and the differences between the British, Spanish, and French colonial systems.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

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Describe the introduction of slavery into America, the responses of slave families to their condition, the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery, and the gradual institutionalization of slavery in the South.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-5.4 Students understand the political, religious, social, and economic institutions that evolved in the colonial era.

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Explain the early democratic ideas and practices that emerged during the colonial period, including the significance of representative assemblies and town meetings.

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Students explain the causes of the American Revolution.

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

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Understand how political, religious, and economic ideas and interests brought about the Revolution (e.g., resistance to imperial policy, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Acts, taxes on tea, Coercive Acts).