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Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)

• Standard 1D- The student understands the differences and similarities among Africans, Europeans, and Native Americans who converged in the western hemisphere after 1492.
• Standard 2A- The student understands the stages of European oceanic and overland exploration, amid international rivalries, from the 9th to 17th centuries.
• Standard 2B- The student understands the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas.

  Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 to 1763)

• Standard 1A- The student understands how diverse immigrants affected the formation of European colonies.
• Standard 1B- The student understands the European struggle for control of North America.
• Standard 2B- The student understands religious diversity in the colonies and how ideas about religious freedom evolved.
• Standard 3A-The student understands colonial economic life and labor systems in the Americas.

  Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

• Standard 2E- The student understands the settlement of the West.