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5th Grade: The American World
The American Colonies (17th & 18th Centuries)
The 17th century saw the colonizing of the Americas by the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English, and the first of many clashes with the Native Americans which would continue throughout this century and into the next. These clashes grew into large scale terrorism, known in American history as the French and Indian Wars, among three nations: the Native Americans, the French, and the English; each of whom used the others for their own ends. The spoil going to the victor was control of the continent. When that conflict finally ended, abuses by the English crown sparked the second major conflict of the century: the American Revolution.
The American Nation (19th Century)
The new American nation had many challenges to face in not only getting itself taken seriously by the millennia-old nations of the Old World, but in working out the details of a new government experiment in a largely unexplored and untamed land, peopled with fiercely independent and sometimes unruly citizens and hostile indigenous tribes. How she rose to the challenge further defined her character.
American World Teacher’s Resources
The American experiment: we have much to be proud of, and much to be ashamed of. It is the old human story played out on a new stage. While Europeans experienced a degree of personal freedom unheard of in the history of the Old World, Africans and Native Americans experienced a degree of submission also unbeknownst to them in previous eras. The struggle to live out Thomas Jefferson’s inspiring words, based on Biblical truth, that “all men are created equal,” still goes on today. Biblical truth informed America’s past; will America survive without Biblical truth informing her future? These essential resources will help the homeschool parent grasp the big picture.