Credit Unit 2 will cover Chapter Four, “The Empire in Transition”, and Chapter Five, "The American Revolution", and Chapter 6, "The Constitution and the New Republic", of the text. The Credit Unit will focus on the events before, during, and immediately following the American Revolution.
Articulate an understanding of key historical events from pre-Columbian North American and European antecedents to colonization, the development of slaver, Native American history, Colonial America, Revolutionary America, and the development of U.S. government, economy and society to 1840.
Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues.
Construct an historical argument integrating both primary documents and secondary sources.