Social Studies
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Lesson 1- Geography of the United States
- Essential Question: What can geography teach us about the United States?
Lesson 2- American Indians and Their Land
- Essential Question: How did American Indians adapt to different environments in North America?
Lesson 3- American Indian Cultural Regions
- Essential Question: How and why did American Indian cultural regions differ?
Lesson 4- How & Why Europeans Came to the New World
- Essential Question: What did explorers take to and from the New World during the Age of Exploration?
Lesson 5- Routes and Explorations to the New World
- Essential Question: How did the exploration of the Americas lead to settlement?
Lesson 6- Early English Settlements
- Essential Question: What challenges faced the first English colonies?
Lesson 7- Comparing the Colonies
- Essential Question: How were the three colonial regions alike and different?
Lesson 8- Slavery in the Americas
- Essential Question: What was the impact of slavery on Africans?
Lesson 9- Life in Colonial Williamsburg
- Essential Question: What were key parts of life for Southern colonists in the 1700s?
Lesson 10- Tensions Grow between the Colonies and Great Britain
- Essential Question: What British actions angered the colonists in the 1700s?
Lesson 11- To Declare Independence or Not
- Essential Question: What were the arguments for and against colonial independence from Great Britain?
Lesson 12- The Declaration of Independence
- Essential Question: What are the main ideas in the Declaration of Independence?
Lesson 13- The American Revolution
- Essential Question: How did the colonists win the American Revolution?
Lesson 14- The Constitution
- Essential Question: What are the key features of the U.S. Constitution?