Unit 2 American Revolution

Causes of the Revolution

• Student can explain causes of the American Revolution.

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Intolerable Acts

  • Stamp Act

  • mercantilism

  • lack of representation in Parliament, and

  • British economic policies following the French and Indian War

• Student understands the:

  • significant individuals: Abigail Adams, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Benjamin Franklin, Crispus Attucks, King George III, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Washington

  • contributions of the Founding Fathers as models of civic virtue

  • Boston Tea Party (as an example of civil disobedience)

  • contributions of women

Revolutionary War

• Student can explain the issues surrounding important events of the American Revolution.

  • battles of Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, and Yorktown

  • winter at Valley Forge

  • signing the Treaty of Paris of 1783

• Student understands the:

  • significant individuals: Abigail Adams, John Adams, Wentworth Cheswell, … Mercy Otis Warren, James Armistead, Benjamin Franklin, Crispus Attucks, King George III, … Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Paine, George Washington, and John Paul Jones

  • contributions of the Founding Fathers as models of civic virtue

Independence

• Student can identify colonial grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence.

• Student understands the:

  • issues surrounding important events during the American Revolution, including declaring independence

  • unalienable rights and can give examples