Idaho Social Studies 6-12.US1.7
The Standard
Trace and analyze the colonial social, religious, political, and economic developments that provided context for the American Revolution, including, but not limited to a discussion of: • Mercantilism • Royal, Joint Stock, and Proprietary Charters • Legislative bodies • Town meetings • Magna Carta and Common Law • Juries • First Great Awakening
Idaho Content Standards: K-12 Social Studies · American Indian Cultures and Colonization Cultures and Colonization 1491-1754
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare who governed the colonies and who could take part in decisions. They explain how trade rules, English legal customs, and revival preaching shaped colonial life. They connect these developments to later disputes with Britain.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can identify who held power under royal, joint-stock, and proprietary charters. They can explain how assemblies, town meetings, and jury trials shaped colonial ideas about government. They use trade rules and revival preaching to explain later tensions with Britain.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think every colony chose its governor and everyone could vote at town meetings. Some mistake mercantilism for free trade or say revival preaching directly caused the Revolution. Others assume Magna Carta gave equal rights to all colonists.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How could a colonial assembly's vote on taxes and a rule sending tobacco to Britain each shape later arguments about British power? Explain both.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Place three charter cards on desks; students match each to crown, investor, or proprietor tokens and note who picked the governor.
Read a Great Awakening sermon excerpt and a town meeting record; write who claims authority in each and who is left out.
Play case-match: match a king jailing a baron without judgment, a precedent-based ruling, and neighbors deciding a verdict to Magna Carta, common law, or juries.
Show a mock tobacco order marked 'Britain only' beside a farmers market sign; students compare who may buy from each seller.
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