Chapter 8

Today we are going to begin reading chapter 8

UNIT GOAL

Students will be able to analyze and evaluate how Britain’s victory over France in the imperial struggle for North America led to new conflicts among the British government, the North American colonists and American Indians, culminating in the creation of a new nations, the United States.

4- Students can analyze and evaluate how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States, and how this war led  to new experiments with democratic ideas and republican forms of government, as well as other new religious, economic and cultural ideas, challenged traditional imperial systems across the Atlantic World.

3 - Students can analyze and evaluate how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States.

2 - Students can explain how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States.

1 - Students can recognize how Britain's victory over France in the imperial struggle for North American led to new conflicts among the British government, the North America colonist and the American Indians, culmination in the creation of a new nations, the United States. 

Identity: How did different social group identities evolve during the revolutionary struggle?  How did leaders of the new United States attempt to form a national identity?

Work, Exchange, and Technology: How did the newly independent United States attempt to formulate a national economy?

Peopling: How did the revolutionary struggle and its aftermath reorient white-American Indian relations and affect subsequent population movements?

Politics and Power: How did the ideology behind the revolution affect power relationships between different ethnic, racial, and social groups?

America in the World:How did the revolution become an international conflict involving competing European and American powers?

Environment and Geography: How did the geographical and environment characteristics of regions open up to white settlements after 1763 affect their subsequent development?

Ideas, Beliefs, and Culture: Why did the patriot cause spread so quickly among the colonists after 1763?  How did the republican ideals of the revolutionary cause affect the nation’s political culture after independence?