Early America through the Founding of the New Nation
Virginia SOL VUS.4
Analyze cooperation and conflict between Indigenous peoples and new settlers.
What students need to be able to do
- Describe the competition among the English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Indigenous peoples for control of North America.
- Describe cooperation between colonists and Indigenous peoples during the 1600s and 1700s in agriculture, fur trade, military alliances, treaties, and cultural exchanges.
- Describe the significance of Bacon's Rebellion.
- Explain conflicts before the Revolutionary War.
- Describe violent conflicts among Indigenous nations, including competing claims for control of lands.