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Period 3: 1754-1800

APUSH: ARC (Theme), MIG (Theme), NAT (Theme), PCE (Theme), SOC (Theme), WOR (Theme)

The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War)

APUSH: KC‑3.1.I.A (KC), KC‑3.1.I.B (KC), KC‑3.1.I.C (KC), Unit 3: Learning Objective B, WOR (Theme)
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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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Taxation without representation

APUSH: KC‑3.1.II.A (KC), KC‑3.1.II.B (KC), KC‑3.1.II.C (KC), KC‑3.1.II.D (KC), Unit 3: Learning Objective C, WOR (Theme)
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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

APUSH: KC‑3.2.I.A (KC), KC‑3.2.I.B (KC), NAT (Theme), Unit 3: Learning Objective D
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The Second Continental Congress
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The Declaration of Independence
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The American Revolution

APUSH: KC‑3.1.II.E (KC), Unit 3: Learning Objective E, WOR (Theme)
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Lexington and Concord
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The American Revolution: lesson overview
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The influence of revolutionary ideals

APUSH: KC‑3.2.I.C (KC), KC‑3.2.I.D (KC), KC‑3.2.I.E (KC), SOC (Theme), Unit 3: Learning Objective F, Unit 3: Learning Objective G, WOR (Theme)
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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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The Articles of Confederation

APUSH: KC‑3.2.II.A (KC), KC‑3.2.II.B (KC), KC‑3.3.I.C (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 3: Learning Objective H
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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

APUSH: KC‑3.2.II.C.i (KC), KC‑3.2.II.D (KC), KC‑3.2.II.E (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 3: Learning Objective I
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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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The Constitution

APUSH: KC‑3.2.II.C.ii (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 3: Learning Objective J
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The US Constitution
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Shaping a new republic

APUSH: KC‑3.2.III.A (KC), KC‑3.2.III.B (KC), KC‑3.3.I.D (KC), KC‑3.3.I.E (KC), KC‑3.3.II.A (KC), KC‑3.3.II.B (KC), KC‑3.3.II.C (KC), PCE (Theme), Unit 3: Learning Objective K, Unit 3: Learning Objective L, WOR (Theme)
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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

APUSH: ARC (Theme), KC‑3.2.III.D (KC), KC‑3.2.III.ii (KC), Unit 3: Learning Objective M
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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

APUSH: KC‑3.2.III.C (KC), KC‑3.3.I.A (KC), KC‑3.3.I.B (KC), MIG (Theme), SOC (Theme), Unit 3: Learning Objective N, Unit 3: Learning Objective O
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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.