Content Specification - SS.7.3.a.1:
Students will locate battles fought between France and Great Britain during the 17th and 18th centuries, and how this led to the importance of British troops in the area of New York.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.a.2:
Students will examine the changing economic relationship between the colonies and Great Britain, including mercantilism and the practice of salutary neglect.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.a.3:
Students will identify the issues stemming from the Zenger Trial that affected the development of individual rights in colonial America.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.b.1:
Students will investigate the Albany Congress and the Albany Plan of Union as a plan for colonial unification, and the influence of Haudensaunee ideas in their development.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.b.2:
Students will examine actions taken by the British including the Proclamation of 1763, the Quartering Act, the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Coercive Acts, and colonial responses to those actions.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.b.3:
Students will compare British and colonial patriot portrayals of the Boston Massacre using historical evidence.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.b.4:
Students will compare the proportions of loyalists and patriots in different regions of New York State.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.b.5:
Students will examine the events at Lexington and Concord as the triggering events for the Revolutionary War.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.c.1:
Students will examine the influence Enlightenment ideas such as natural rights and social contract and ideas expressed in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense had on colonial leaders in their debates on independence.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.c.2:
Students will examine the Declaration of Independence and the arguments for independence stated within it.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.d.1:
Students will explore the different military strategies used by the Americans and their allies, including various Native American groups, during the American Revolution.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.d.2:
Students will examine the strategic importance of the New York colony. Students will examine the American victory at the Battle of Saratoga in terms of its effects on American and British morale and on European views on American prospects for victory in the Revolution.

Content Specification - SS.7.3.d.3:
Students will examine the terms of the Treaty of Paris, determine what boundary was set for the United States, and illustrate this on a map.