Note: The following outline has been updated for the Fall 2012 semester.

1. Introduction

  • Who is an American?
  • Syllabus

 

2. The First Americans

  • Where, when, with whom to begin?
  • Race and Region
  • 8 Facts about Pre-Columbian Native Americans

 

3. The Renaissance and Reconquista

  • From Dark Ages to Renaissance
  • Renaissance (1400s)
    • Human Potential
    • Spreading beyond Home
    • From Religious to Secular
  • Reconquista Islamic Imperialism
    • Tours (732)
    • Crusades (1096-1400s)
    • Granada, Spain (1492)
      • Ferdinando Isabella
      • Cristóbal Colón
    • Portugal
      • Henry the Navigator (1420s)
      • Slavery: Old & New
      • Bartolomew Díaz (1488)
      • Vasco de Gama (1498)

 

4. Spanish Exploration and Conquest

  • Establishing a Spanish-American Empire
    • Columbus (1492)
      • Myths
      • Legacies
    • Cortés (1519-1521): Aztec Empire
      • Factors resulting in victory
      • ¿Conquistador o Libertador?
    • Pizarro (1533): Inca Empire
    • Columbian Exchange
  • Evaluation
    • Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas

 

5. Four European Empires in America

  • Spain: Gold and God
    • Florida
    • Southwest and Great Plains
  • France: Fur Trade and Christianity
    • Quebec
    • Mississippi River Valley
  • Holland: Multi-Ethnic Corporate Ventures
    • Northwest Passage
    • New Amsterdam (=NYC)
  • England: A Slow Beginning
    • Sea Dogs
    • Lost Colony of Roanoke
    • Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

 

6. Chesapeake and New England

  • Chesapeake
    • Virginia Company
    • John Smith
    • Powhatan, John Rolfe, Pocahontas
    • Tobacco
    • VA Assembly
    • Opechancanough
    • Indentured Servants
  • New England
    • English Reformation
    • Puritans
    • Politics & Family Life
    • Religious Dissent

 

7. Carolina and Middle Colonies

  • Restoration Background Context
    • English History
    • Royalism
    • Restoration Colonies
  • Carolina (1663)
    • Fundamental Constitution
    • Slavery & Rice
  • Middle Colonies
    • English Restoration
    • New York (1664): From Holland
    • Pennsylvania (1681): For Quakers

 

8. The Glorious Revolution & the Great Awakening

  • Glorious Revolution
    • Royalism of James II
    • England's Glorious Revolution (1688)
    • America's Glorious Revolution (1689)
    • Locke's Two Treatises on Govt. (1690)
  • Great Awakening
    • Jonathan Edwards
    • George Whitefield
    • Old & New Lights

 

9. Slavery and Mercantilism

  • Slavery
    • W.E.B. DuBois
    • Ten Basic Facts
    • The Middle Passage
  • Mercantilism
    • Navigation Acts
    • Three Legacies
    • Benign Neglect

 

10. EXAM (for Fall 2012, this will not include material from Lesson 11)

 

11. Imperial Wars

  • Imperial Wars (1689-1763)
  • The Seven Years War
    • Names & Dates
    • Land Rush
    • Albany Conference
    • Early Conflict
    • Pitt's Role
    • Battles
    • Legacies
    • Treaty of Paris (1763)
    • Imperial Budget
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