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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.

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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).

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.

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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.