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Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 to 1763)

• Standard 2C- The student understands social and cultural change in British America.
• Standard 3A- The student understands colonial economic life and labor systems in the Americas.
• Standard 3B- The student understands economic life and the development of labor systems in the English colonies.
• Standard 3C- The student understands African life under slavery.

  Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 to 1861)

• Standard 2D- The student understands the rapid growth of "the peculiar institution" after 1800 and the varied experiences of African Americans under slavery.
• Standard 3A- The student understands the changing character of American political life in "the age of the common man."

  Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 to 1877)

• Standard 1A- The student understands how the North and South differed and how politics and ideologies led to the Civil War.
• Standard 2A- The student understands how the resources of the Union and Confederacy affected the course of the war.