Assess students' ability to analyze the causes and effects of the American Revolution by identifying political, economic, and ideological causes (e.g., taxation without representation, British policies, Enlightenment ideas), explaining key events that escalated conflict, and evaluating short- and long-term consequences for different groups (colonists, Loyalists, Native Americans, enslaved people) and for the formation of U.S. government; include tasks that require comparing perspectives and linking specific causes to specific outcomes.