Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- The major events of the American Revolution as it relates to the battles and other events.
- The principles contained in the Declaration of Independence.
- The contributions of significant people and supporters of the American Revolution.
- The contributions of African Americans, women, merchants and farmers.
- The efforts used to gain support for the American Revolution by the Minutemen, Committees of Correspondence, First Continental Congress, Sons of Liberty, boycotts, and the Second Continental Congress.
- The location on a map of major battles during the American Revolution.
- The reasons for colonial victory in the American Revolution.
- The effect of the Treaty of Paris of 1783 on the development of the United States.
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify, describe, and evaluate events, individuals, and groups important in historic events.
- Examine and interpret historic documents. Compare and contrast the contributions of significant people and events.
- Identify the contribution ordinary people such as Haym Solomon.
- Describe the contributions of Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, George Washington, and supporters from other countries to the American Revolution.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Through the events of the American Revolution and the contributions of many people, the United States gained independence from Great Britain.
Vocabulary
- identify
- evaluate
- contributions
- principles
- mobilize
- Committees of Correspondence
- Liberty
- boycott
- Continental Congress
- ordinary citizens
- American Revolution
- declaration
- financier
- popular sovereignty
- limited government
- bicameral
- unicameral
- Great Compromise
- Annapolis Convention
