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This webquest is aimed for a high school American Revolution/US History class. It fits the following Iowa Core Standards in History and 21st Century Skills:

History 9-12 Standard 1: Understand historical patterns, periods of time, and the relationships among these elements. Objective 1: Understand concepts such as chronology, causality, change, conflict, and complexity to explain, analyze, and show connections among patterns of historical change and continuity. Objective 2: Understand significant historical periods and patterns of change within and across cultures, such as the development of ancient cultures and civilizations, the rise of nation states, and social, economic, and political revolutions.

Standard 2: Understand how and why people create, maintain, or change systems of power, authority, and governance. Objective 1: Understand the purpose of government and how its powers have been acquired, used, and justified. Objective 2: Understand different political systems from historical periods.

Standard 8: Understand cause and effect relationships and other historical thinking skills in order to interpret events and issues. Objective 1: Understand processes such as using a variety of sources, providing, validating, and weighing evidence for claims, checking credibility of sources, and searching for causality. Objective 2: Understand relationships between and among significant events. Objective 4: Understand the process of critical historical inquiry to reconstruct and reinterpret the past. Objective 5: Understand multiple viewpoints within and across cultures related to important events, recurring dilemmas, and issues. Objective 6: Understand how and why events may be interpreted differently depending upon the perspectives of participants, witnesses, reporters, and historians.

21st Century Standard 1: Creativity and Innovation <span style="color: #030344; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Objective 1: Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. <span style="color: #030344; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Objective 2: Create original works as a means of personal or group expression.

<span style="color: #030344; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Standard 3: Research and Information Fluency <span style="color: #030344; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">Objective 4: Process data and report results

<span style="color: #030344; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 130%;">This webquest could be adapted and altered. If classtime permitted, and I have the time to create another section of this webquest, I would have one group do the //political views// section of the paper, another do the //lifestyle// section, the //business// section and so on. Create a class newpaper of that period.