1. Unit 3: Canada & the American Revolution 1760 to 1800 AD

2. Major Concept #1 Students will learn that the America Revolution was a war between rival world views, e.g. aristocratic versus democratic.

3. Major Skill #1 Students will learn how to compare and contrast two worldviews.

4. Major Concept #2 Students will learn that the conflict with the Thirteen Colonies was avoidable had Britain been more progressive in the way it governed its colonies.

5. Major Concept #3 Students will learn that America failed in its attempt to get the Canadiens to become an ally against Great Britain.

6. Major Concept #3 Students will learn that the American Revolution was both a revolution and a civil war.

7. Major Concept #4 Students will learn that Americans Loyalists fled to Canada and Nova Scotia (leading to the creation of two new colonies, e.g. Upper Canada and New Brunswick).

8. Major Concept #5 Students will learn that Britain believed the reason the Thirteen Colonies rebelled was because it had too much freedom; therefore, Britain established a non-democratic colonial government in Canada to prevent a repeat of 1776.