Local Geography
Compare, Contrast, and Identify all 5 US Regions
Understand Pangea and the Land Bridge
Explain how the environment affected people's lives and migration patterns
Predict challenges people could have after migrating to the Americas.
Describe how people of different regions adapted to their environments
Compare and contrast different groups of people within a given region
Describe how people used resources in their environment to survive
Describe jobs within each region
Compare and Contrast roles of women across the different Native American Regions
Describe technologies introduced during the Renaissance and the affect they had on today's society
Explain technology that made ocean exploration possible
Analyze historic people of the Renaissance and how they affected the United States
Trace the routes of the explorers
Identify regions claimed by specific explorers/nations
Describe the aims, obstacles, and accomplishments of explorers
Locate and Name Spanish land in the Americas
Describe the relations between settlers and Native Americans
Learn how the Virginian Colony was settled
describe cooperation between colonists and Native Americans
Describle conflict between colonist and Native Americans
Describe resources needed/learned for colonists to surive
Identify the location of the middle and southern colonies
Identify the significance of the Great Awakening in the middle colonies
Explain why people chose to settle in the middle and southern colonies
Describe how slavery influenced life in the Southern colonies
Identify and describe relationships amongs African slaves and settlers/colonists
Identify major industries
Explain how disputes were resolved
Describe the location of the New England Colonies
Identify the people who founded colonies in New England
Examine the relationships between Native Americans and Settlers
Describe triangular trade routes and how the affected the colonies economy
Explain how nothern colony towns were established and ran
Describe the fight to control North American land
Identify laws that caused conflicts in the colonies
Describe resolutions of conflicts in the colonies
Explain why colonists refused to accept new Parliment law
Explain the signifigance of the of the Second Continental Congress
Identify members of the Second Continental Congress
Compare and contrast patriots and loyalists
Describe what the colonists wanted from New England
Describe how citizen opinions initiated the unification
Identify the purpose of taxes and identify the abuse of taxes by Parliment
Identify early battles, campaigns, and turning points in the Revolution
Examine roles of Britosh and American leaders
Describe how individuals and other nations contributed to the war's outcome
Identify the outcome of the Revolutionary War
Describe why the nation wrote the Declaration of Independence
Explain how the Declaration of Independence affected people
Read the Declaration of Independence
Determine and Describe important parts of the Declaration of Independence
Explain the purpose of the Constitution
Explain the purpose of the Bill of Rights
Explain the key rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights
Describe why the nation needed a Constitution and Bill of Rights
Compare the functions and powers of the three banches of government
Identify the three branches of US government
Describe the struggle to approve the Constitution and the Great Compromise
Describe the challenges for early pioneers
Explain the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears
Explain how Texas became a state
Describe travels on the Oregon Trail
Describe the purpose and expecation of moving West
Predict problems pioneers will have as they move West
Compare and contrast saving and financial investment.
Explain the relationship between profit and loss in economic decisions.
Conduct a cost-benefit analysis