The Revolutionary War
California Academic Content Standard
California Academic Content Standard
History-Social Science, Grade 5
United States History and Geography: Making a New Nation
5.6 Students understand the course and consequences of the American Revolution
5.6.1: Identify and map the major military battles, campaigns, and turning points of the Revolutionary War, the roles of the American and British leaders, and the Indian leaders' alliances on both sides.
5.6.2: Describe the contributions of France and other nations and of individuals to the outcome of the Revolution (e.g., Benjamin Franklin's negotiations with the French, the French navy, the Treaty of Paris, The Netherlands, Russia, the Marquis Marie Joseph de Lafayette, Tadeusz
Ko´sciuszko, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben).