Title: 
Headings: Unit 2 What Were They Fighting For?
Unit
 
2

What
 
Were
 
They
 
Fighting
 
For?

Background
 
for
 
the
 
Teacher

Key
 
Teaching
 
Points

Activity
 
in
  
This
 
Unit

“What
 
Were
 
They
  
Fighting
 
For?”
  

Unit
 
2

Teacher
 
Instructions

What
 
Were
 
They
 
Fighting
 
For?

Standards
 

National
 
History
 
Standards

National
 
Geography
 
Standards

Materials
 
You’ll
 
Need

44
 
Teacher
 
Instructions

Procedure

Math
 
Extension
 
Activity
 

In
 

American
 
Indians

Upper
 
Ohio
 
River
 
Valley:
 

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Reading

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Reading
 
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What
 
Were
 
They
 
Fighting
 
For?

The
 
French

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The
 
British

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Content: And
 
the
 
population
 
in
 
the
 
colonies
 
was
 
quickly
 
growing. The
 
British
 
colonies
 
had
 
a
 
strong
 
economy. It
 
was
 
based
 
on
 
farming. They
 
grew
 
plenty
 
of
 
food. As
 
the
 
population
 
grew,
 
colonists
 
wanted
 
more
 
farmland. Most
 
of
 
the
 
farmland
 
in
 
the
 
settled
 
parts
 
of
 
the
 
colonies
 
was
 
already
 
taken. One
 
way
 
to
 
get
 
new
 
farmlan