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HSS-5.5.3 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-5.5.3
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 5
Course: United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation, Grade 5

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

Standard:
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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