Unit Standards SS.7.C.1.1, SS.7.C.1.2, SS.7.C.1.3, SS.7.C.1.4, SS.7.C.1.5, SS.7.C.1.8
Essential Questions Why do people create, structure, and change governments? How does social change influence government? How and why did colonial attitudes toward British rule change? How did early ideas of democracy and government influence American colonists and the writing of the Declaration of Independence?
Students will Know The influence that Locke & Montesquieu had on the Founding Fathers. Details of documents such as the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Mayflower Compact and Common Sense. The series of events that led American colonist to desire independence. The arguments that are laid out in the Declaration of Independence. That the Articles of Confederation was our nation's first attempt of self governance & its flaws that led to its replacement. Key individuals that played a large role in creating the Constitution. The arguments of Federalist and anti-Federalist.