Introduction
The unit, Taxes, Rebellion, and the Birth of a Nation is designed for a fourth grade Virginia Studies class. The unit could be used in U.S. History classes as well. It will be taught over four weeks for approximately 45 minutes each day. It will cover the causes of the American Revolution, the American Revolutionary War, and culminate with the adoption of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It will focus on the roles Patrick Henry, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and George Mason, played in the war for independence and in the birth of America's Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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