The First Americans
Students will describe how geography and climate influenced the way various nations lived and adjusted to the natural environment, including locations of villages, the distinct structures that they built, and how they obtained food, clothing, tools, and utensils.
Students will describe their varied customs and folklore traditions, and explain their varied economies and systems of government.
Students will describe their varied customs and folklore traditions, and explain their varied economies and systems of government.
Age of Exploration
Students will describe the entrepreneurial characteristics of early explorers and the the technological developments that made sea exploration by latitude and longitude possible.
Students will explain the aims, obstacles, and accomplishments of the explorers, sponsors, and leaders of key European expeditions and the reasons Europeans chose to explore and colonize the world.
Students will trace the routes of the major land explorers of the United States, the distances traveled by explorers, and the Atlantic trade routes that linked Africe, the West Indies, the British colonies, and Europe.
Students will locate on maps of North and South America land claimed by Spain, France, England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia.
Students will describe the competition among the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Indian nations for control of North America.
Students will describe the cooperation and conflicts that existed between the colonists and Indians during the 1600's and 1700's.
Students will discuss the role of broken treaties and massacres and the factors that led to the Indians' defeat, including the resistance of Indian nations to encroachments and assimilation.
Students will explain the aims, obstacles, and accomplishments of the explorers, sponsors, and leaders of key European expeditions and the reasons Europeans chose to explore and colonize the world.
Students will trace the routes of the major land explorers of the United States, the distances traveled by explorers, and the Atlantic trade routes that linked Africe, the West Indies, the British colonies, and Europe.
Students will locate on maps of North and South America land claimed by Spain, France, England, Portugal, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia.
Students will describe the competition among the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Indian nations for control of North America.
Students will describe the cooperation and conflicts that existed between the colonists and Indians during the 1600's and 1700's.
Students will discuss the role of broken treaties and massacres and the factors that led to the Indians' defeat, including the resistance of Indian nations to encroachments and assimilation.
Life in the Colonies
Students will understand the influence of location and physical setting on the founding of the
original 13 colonies, and identify on a map the locations of the colonies and the American
Indian nations already inhabiting these areas.
Students will identify the major individuals and groups responsible for the founding of the various colonies and the reasons for their founding.
Students will describe the religious aspects of the earliest colonies, the basis for the development of political self-government and a free-market economic system.
Students will describe the introduction of slavery into America, the responses of slave families to their condition, the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery, and the gradual institutionalization of slavery in the South.
original 13 colonies, and identify on a map the locations of the colonies and the American
Indian nations already inhabiting these areas.
Students will identify the major individuals and groups responsible for the founding of the various colonies and the reasons for their founding.
Students will describe the religious aspects of the earliest colonies, the basis for the development of political self-government and a free-market economic system.
Students will describe the introduction of slavery into America, the responses of slave families to their condition, the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery, and the gradual institutionalization of slavery in the South.
Causes of the American Revolution
Students will understand how political, religious, and economic ideas and interests brought
about the American Revolution.
Students will know the significance of the first and second Continental Congresses and of the Committees of Correspondence.
Students will 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.
about the American Revolution.
Students will know the significance of the first and second Continental Congresses and of the Committees of Correspondence.
Students will 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.
Interested in a U.S. History Trivia Quiz????
1. The Declaration of Independence begins with what words?
2. What document was the legal framework of the United States?
3. Who wrote the words of the Star Spangled Banner?
4. How did the Liberty Bell get its crack?
5. How many stars were on the first United States flag?
6. In what year did Congress recognize the Pledge of Allegiance?
7. Where was the first national capitol located?
8. What city was the Liberty Bell located in?
9. What is the official anniversary date of Flag Day?
10. Which two patriots died on July 4, 1826?
11. Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
12. In July 1776, how many people were living in the colonies?
13. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
14. Who do historians believe sewed the first official American flag?
15. Flying a flag upside down is a symbol of what?
16. Estimated number of Fourth of July cookouts?
17. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are familiarly known as?
18. Whose signature is the largest on the Declaration of Independence?
19. The dollar amount of all U.S. fireworks imported?
20. Life, liberty, and ______________________________________________
21. The signing of the Declaration of Independence took until August 2, 1776. True or False?
22. How many people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776?
23. How many people annually visit the Liberty Bell?
24. How tall is the Statue of Liberty?
25. When the Liberty Bell was cast, how much did it weigh?
2. What document was the legal framework of the United States?
3. Who wrote the words of the Star Spangled Banner?
4. How did the Liberty Bell get its crack?
5. How many stars were on the first United States flag?
6. In what year did Congress recognize the Pledge of Allegiance?
7. Where was the first national capitol located?
8. What city was the Liberty Bell located in?
9. What is the official anniversary date of Flag Day?
10. Which two patriots died on July 4, 1826?
11. Who was the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
12. In July 1776, how many people were living in the colonies?
13. Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
14. Who do historians believe sewed the first official American flag?
15. Flying a flag upside down is a symbol of what?
16. Estimated number of Fourth of July cookouts?
17. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are familiarly known as?
18. Whose signature is the largest on the Declaration of Independence?
19. The dollar amount of all U.S. fireworks imported?
20. Life, liberty, and ______________________________________________
21. The signing of the Declaration of Independence took until August 2, 1776. True or False?
22. How many people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776?
23. How many people annually visit the Liberty Bell?
24. How tall is the Statue of Liberty?
25. When the Liberty Bell was cast, how much did it weigh?