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.