Introduction

Meeting of two worlds

            Biography Signups

            chp 1

The English colonies: 1607-1650

            chp 2

Powhatan, Jamestown, mercantilism, Anne Hutchinson, Iroquois, Puritans

The English colonies: 1650-1750

            chp 3

Bacon’s Rebellion, Jesuits, witchcraft, New Netherlands

The English colonies: 1700-1750

chp 4

Day 1: Albany Plan of Union, Benjamin Franklin, Regulators, George Whitefield

Day 2: Natchez Revolt, Stono Rebellion

EXAM #1

Background to Revolution

            chp 5

Day 1: Stamp Act, Patrick Henry, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre

Day 2: Boston Tea Party, First Continental Congress, Thomas Paine

The American Revolution

chp 6

Day 1: Bunker Hill, Loyalists, militia, Saratoga

Day 2: Abigail Adams, Valley Forge, Cowpens, Yorktown

Critical Period: 1783-1789

            chp 7

Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, Quakers, Mary Woolstonecraft, Shays’ Rebellion, Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers

The New Republic: 1790-1800

            chp 8 (to p. 255)

Fallen Timbers, Whiskey Rebellion, Jay’s Treaty, XYZ Affair, Alien/Sedition Acts, Election of 1800

EXAM #2

The Jeffersonian Republic

chp 8 (from p. 255)

Marbury vs. Madison, Louisiana Purchase, Lewis & Clark, Tecumseh, The Embargo, Hartford Convention

Changing National Economy

chp 9

Erie Canal, steamships, John Marshall, Eli Whitney, Lowell Massachusetts, Alexis de Tocqueville

Jacksonian Democracy

  chp 10

John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Trail of Tears, nullification crisis, Bank War

The pre-war South

            chp 11

Paper Topics Due via email by 5pm

miscegenation, slave codes, Nat Turner, Missouri Compromise, “King Cotton”

Era of idealism

            chp 12

Charles G. Finney, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, American Temperance Society, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Catharine Beecher, Seneca Falls Convention

EXAM #3
 

The Contentious West

assigned readings

manifest destiny, Republic of Texas, James K. Polk, Wilmot Proviso, “49ers”, Free Soil Party, Compromise of 1850

Sectionalism rules America

            chp 13

Day 1: Bleeding Kansas, Irish immigration, Know-Nothings

Day 2: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Dred Scott decision, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown

Civil War

            chp 14

Day 1: Jefferson Davis, ironclads, Robert E. Lee

Day 2: Emancipation Proclamation, New York City Draft riots, Gettysburg

Day 3: 13^th Amendment, John Wilkes Booth, Camp Sumter (Andersonville)

Papers Due

            Extra Credit Due

Reconstruction

chp 15

Radical Republicans, Black Codes, carpetbaggers, sharecropping, impeachment of Johnson 14^th Amendment, 15^th amendment, compromise of 1877

EXAM #4

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