Revolutionary war biography project instructions
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These lessons ask students to consider how Americans fought and won a war for national independence, and how that war shaped the republic and our national identity.
DIPLOMACY AND DEVOTION: THE FRANCO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTIONS
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diplomacy and devotion
THE kamp FOR INDEPENDENCE: A VIEW FROM THE FRONT LINES
This lesson invites students to explore the experiences of a Revolutionary War solder, including items used and the challenges they faced.
A View from the Front Lines
FRANCE AND THE WAR FOR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
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In order to ensure proper understanding and appreciation of the American Revolution and its legacy, the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati has developed this plan of instruction on the American Revolution for students in grades nine through twelve. The plan is designed to be followed during that part of a secondary school course on U.S. history that covers the period between 1754 and 1791, beginning with the French and Indian War and ending with the ratification of the U.S. Bill of Rights. The American Revolution Institute recommends that each state, or as local circumstances may dictate, each school district, adopt a version of this plan.
The plan is based on the interpretive framework developed by the American Revolution Institute to organize and synthesize the enduring achievements of the American Revolution and presents them in a way that makes sense of an extremely complex series of social, economic, political, intellectual, legal, and constitutiona
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Preparing the Revolution
In most of our history courses, students learn about brave patriots who prepared for the Revolutionary War by uniting against a tyrannical king and oppressive English laws. In this well-known story, all Americans united in opposition to England and looked to their enlightened leaders to help them in their valiant struggle for freedom. While there certainly is some truth to this version of the Revolutionary War, a more balanced interpretation includes another perspective — that of the many ordinary colonists who had grown increasingly disillusioned and angry with their unresponsive colonial leaders and did not want to engage in a war for independence designed to benefit the colonial elite.
Some of those unimportant discontented colonists turned to rebellion against their colonial governors. In Chapter 4 of A People’s History, Howard Zinn includes their perspective, weaving it carefully into the more traditional story and asking questions that must be an