EXPLORATION, REVOLUTION, AND CONSTITUTION

Topics include the landbridge, important explorers (including Erikson, Columbus, Balboa, de Leon, Pizarro, Cortes, Champlain, and Hudson), the first Thanksgiving, the original 13 colonies, home life in colonial America, artisans, colonial education, mercantilism, the French and Indian War, the Stamp Act, the Currency Act and Quartering Act, Revolutionary women’s organizations, the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, the First Continental Congress, Paul Revere’s ride, Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, the Declaration of Independence, battles of the Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, the Treaty of Paris, writing the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.