MJ US History OP 4

Organizing Principle 4: Between 1763 and 1785, British attempts to exert control over the colonies October/November – 3 weeks-- Lessons
led to violent, organized, and successful resistance and revolution. 1-3 by November 3 – Colonial Reactions
November/December – 4 weeks --Lessons
4-5 by December 6 – American
Revolution and DBQ

Measurement Topics Curriculum Standards Benchmarks Content Language

British Controls and Explain American colonial reaction to British policy from 1763-1774. SS.8.A.3.2 boycott
Colonial Reactions • Identify specific acts by colonists in response to British policies, such SS.8.A.3.3 Committee of
as the Boston Tea Party. SS.8.A.3.8 Correspondence
Declaring • Explain the motivation behind the meeting of the First Continental SS.8.A.3.3 effigy
Independence Congress. Intolerable Acts
• Examples: written protests, boycotts, unrest leading to the Boston Loyalists
Massacre, Stamp Act Congress, and Committees of Correspondence. Minutemen
Patriots
Recognize the contributions of the Founding Fathers (John Adams, Sam propaganda
Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Quartering Act
Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and George Washington) during repeal
American Revolutionary efforts. resolution
Sons of Liberty
• Recognize the varied roles and influence of the Founding Fathers. Stamp Act
• Examples: Thomas Paine, John Jay, and Peter Salem. Sugar Act
Examine individuals and groups that affected political and social Tea Act
motivations during the American Revolution. Tories
Examples: Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys, the Committees of Townshend Act
Correspondence, Sons of Liberty, Abigail Adams, Daughters of Liberty, the Writs of Assistance
Black Regiment (in churches), Patrick Henry, Patriots, Loyalists, individual
colonial militias, and Undecideds. grievances
Recognize the contributions of the Founding Fathers (John Adams, Sam petition
Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas preamble
Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and George Washington) during rights
American Revolutionary efforts. tyranny
Redcoats
• Recognize the varied roles and influence of the Founding Fathers.
Examples: Thomas Paine, John Jay, and Peter Salem.

Describe the influence of individuals on social and political developments

during the Revolutionary ear. SS.8.A.3.5

• Recognize the influence of the Enlightenment on the Founding

Fathers.

• Examples: Thomas Paine, James Otis, Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail

Adams, Benjamin Banneker, Lemuel Haynes, and Phyllis Wheatley.

Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the American SS.8.A.3.6

Revolution.

• Understand change in colonial government under the Second

Continental Congress.

• Identify events leading up to Declaration of Independence.

Examine the structure, content, and consequences of the Declaration of SS.8.A.3.7

Independence.

• Identify specific charges outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

• Examine the influence of Enlightenment philosophers on shaping of

ideas in the Declaration of Independence.

• Describe the consequences the Declaration of Independence had on

colonial society.

Recognize the contributions of the Founding Fathers (John Adams, SS.8.A.3.3 blockade

Sam Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Alexander Hamilton, guerilla warfare

Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and George mercenary

Washington) during American Revolutionary efforts. privateer

• Recognize the varied roles and influence of the Founding ratify

Fathers. siege

The American • Examples: Thomas Paine, John Jay, and Peter Salem. strategy
Revolution

Examine the contributions of influential groups to both the American SS.8.A.3.4
and British war efforts during the American Revolutionary War and
their effects on the outcome of the war.

• Examine the roles and actions of Patriots, Loyalists, Native
Americans, and the British.

• Examine the role of guerilla warfare, state militias, and the
Continental Army.

• Explain how foreign powers (France, Spain, and the Netherlands)
impacted the outcome of the war.

• Examples: foreign alliances, Native Americans, slaves, women,
soldiers, Hessians.

Examine the causes, course, and consequences of the American SS.8.A.3.6
Revolution. SS.8.A.3.15
SS.8.A.3.16
• Identify the key events and turning points of the Revolutionary
War.

• Examples: Battles of Lexington and Concord, Common Sense,
Second Continental Congress, Battle of Bunker Hill, Battle of
Cowpens, Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Olive Branch
Petition, winter at Valley Forge, Battles of Saratoga and
Yorktown, Treaty of Paris.

Examine this time period (1763-1815) from the perspective of
historically underrepresented groups (children, indentured servants,
Native Americans, slaves, women, and working class).

• Explain slaves’ decision to fight with the Loyalists rather than the
Patriots and describe the fate of those slaves after the war.

• Examine the conflict within the Iroquois Confederacy (whether
to support the British, support the Patriots, or remain neutral)
and the effects their decisions had on the tribes.

• Examine various Native American reactions to the growth of the
newly formed United States as it expanded westward.

• Identify contributions that colonial women made to the
Revolutionary War effort.

Examine key events in Florida history as each impacts this era of
American History.

• Identify groups of individuals who relocated to Florida after
Spain reclaimed the territory in 1783.

• Name the groups with which Floridians placed their loyalties
during the American Revolution.

• Identify actions related to the Revolutionary War that occurred
in Florida (e.g., the Battle of Pensacola and the Battle of Thomas
Creek).

• Examples: Treaty of Paris, British rule, Second Spanish Period.