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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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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).

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).