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Colonial Conflicts: Land, Trade, and Shifting Alliances

5th Grade · Social Studies · US-UT-SS

8 lessons

Goal

Explain how competing claims over land, the fur trade, and shifting alliances between European powers and Native American nations sparked major colonial wars.

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us-ut5.1.4Utah Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Describe how conflicts over land, trade, and alliances sometimes arose during colonization in North America (for example, Bacon’s Rebellion, King Philip’s War, the French and Indian War).