Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.1e
The Standard
- SS24.US1.1
- Trace the events from 1754 to 1783 that led to the independence of the United States of America.
Compare and contrast the contributions of different groups in colonial America to the War for Independence and the effects of the war on members of these groups, including free and enslaved Black Americans, Loyalists, Native Americans, and women.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare the wartime choices and work of free and enslaved Black Americans, Loyalists, Native nations, and women. They explain how the war affected each group, without assuming independence brought everyone the same rights.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can explain that free Black Patriots fought, while some enslaved people sought freedom with the British. They can describe how some Loyalists fled and how Native nations faced land losses despite making different alliances. They can name women's wartime work and explain why it did not bring voting rights.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may assume all Black Americans supported the Patriots or that every Native nation chose the same side. They may think Loyalists were all British soldiers, or that independence ended slavery and gave women voting rights.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Choose two groups from Black Americans, Loyalists, Native nations, and women. Give one wartime action and one postwar effect for each, using two specific facts.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print eight fact cards, two per group, and have pairs sort them into wartime actions and postwar effects.
Ask: How could independence bring freedom to some people but loss of land to others? Use two facts from the cards.
Play a matching game in which students pair wartime role cards with outcome cards, then explain one match that needs a qualifier.
Show a local Revolutionary War marker or museum webpage; ask whose wartime work it names and whose postwar experience it leaves out.
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