Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.5a
The Standard
- SS24.6.5
- Explain how the desire for religious freedom served as a motivation for establishing colonies.
Summarize efforts to limit religious freedom in the colonies.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify colonial rules that favored one religion and limited others. They explain who faced each rule and what the rule required or prohibited.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why Massachusetts officials banished Roger Williams. They can also describe how Virginia made residents, including religious dissenters, pay taxes to support the Anglican Church.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume every colony offered religious freedom to everyone. They may think Maryland protected all faiths, or that Virginia's church taxes were voluntary.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Describe religious restrictions in two different colonies. For each, name who was affected and what the rule required or prohibited.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs three colony-name cards and three rule cards: Massachusetts banishment, Virginia church taxes, and Maryland's Christian-only protection. Have them match the cards.
Ask, 'Why might someone paying Virginia's church tax say they lacked religious freedom?' Have students write a two-sentence answer.
Read a restriction aloud. Students hold up a Massachusetts, Virginia, or Maryland card to show which colony it describes.
Place the First Amendment's religion clauses beside a mock Virginia church-tax notice. Have students circle one difference in what government requires.
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Related Standards
- SS24.6.5
Explain how the desire for religious freedom served as a motivation for establishing colonies.
- SS24.6.5b
Describe the contributions of colonists in bringing about religious change in colonial society.
- SS24.6.9
Summarize the reasons for the colonies’ victory in the War for Independence.
- SS24.6.7d
Summarize the arguments put forth by Patriots and Loyalists regarding the question of independence from Great Britain, and describe efforts to compromise.
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