Period 3: 1754-1800

Seven Years' War (the French and Indian War)

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The Seven Years' War: background and combatants
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The Seven Years' War: battles and legacy
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Pontiac's uprising
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Seven Years' War: lesson overview
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Seven Years' War
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Taxation without representation

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The Townshend Acts and the committees of correspondence
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Uproar over the Stamp Act
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The Boston Massacre
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The Boston Tea Party
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The Intolerable Acts and the First Continental Congress
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Taxation without representation: lesson overview
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Philosophical foundations of the American Revolution

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The Second Continental Congress
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The Declaration of Independence
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The American Revolution

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Lexington and Concord
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The American Revolution: lesson overview
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Social consequences of revolutionary ideals

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Women in the American Revolution
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Social consequences of revolutionary ideals
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Latin American independence movements
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Articles of Confederation

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The Articles of Confederation
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Shays's Rebellion
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Challenges of the Articles of Confederation
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The Constitutional Convention and debates over ratification

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The Constitutional Convention
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The Constitutional Convention
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Constitutional compromises: The Electoral College
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Constitutional compromises: The Three-Fifths Compromise
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The Federalist Papers
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The Bill of Rights
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Constitution

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The US Constitution
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Shaping a new republic

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The presidency of George Washington
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The presidency of John Adams
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Shaping a new republic: lesson overview
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Developing an American identity

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John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence
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Jefferson, Monticello
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Movement in the early republic

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Regional attitudes about slavery, 1754-1800
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About this unit

From colony to nation. Explore the dramatic events that separated the United States from Britain and the trials of the young republic and its citizens.