Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement in the New World (1450–1600) - Review
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Abstract
To understand the nature and chronology of the European exploration of the Americas during the first hundred and fifty years after the Columbian contact.
Contents
- Unit 1:: Old Worlds in Transition: America, Africa, and Europe before 1600
- Native Cultures of Africa
- Rise of Complex Civilizations in Mesoamerica and the Andes and the Native Peoples of North America
- Politics, Trade, Exploration, and Religious Upheaval in Europe
- Old Worlds in Transition: America, Africa, and Europe before 1600 - Review
- Unit 2:: Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement in the New World (1450–1600)
- Naming America: From Columbus to Vespucci
- The Conflicting Imperial Visions of Spain, France, and Holland
- England and the New World
- Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement in the New World (1450–1600) - Review
- Unit 3:: English Beginnings on the Chesapeake (1607–1676)
- Native American Exclusion
- The Expansion of Indentured Servitude among the Western European Poor and Dispossessed
- The First Representative Government in America and the Rise of a Slave Society
- English Beginnings on the Chesapeake (1607–1676)- Review
- Unit 4:: Empires in Flux (1620–1681)
- The English Civil War and the Rise of Oliver Cromwell
- Pilgrims, Puritans, and Natives in the New World
- Family Life and the Role of Women in the Colonies
- Empires in Flux (1620–1681) - Review
- Unit 5:: Wars for Empire (1685–1763)
- The Great War for Empire: The French and Indian Conflict
- England’s Glorious Revolution
- From a “Society with Slaves” to a “Slave Society”
- Wars for Empire (1685–1763) - Review
- Unit 6:: Tax Acts, Declaring Independence, and the American Revolution (1763–1783)
- Waging a Revolutionary War
- Writing a “Declaration of Independence”
- The Proclamations of King George III
- Tax Acts, Declaring Independence, and the American Revolution (1763–1783) - Review
- Unit 7:: Debating, Defining, and Ratifying a Constitution (1783–1791)
- The Bill of Rights
- The Constitutional Convention and the Federalist Debates
- Debt, Disillusionment, and Shays’s Rebellion
- Debating, Defining, and Ratifying a Constitution (1783–1791) - Review
- Unit 8:: Making the New Republic (1789–1800)
- First U.S. Congress
- John Adams and the Alien and Sedition Acts
- George Washington’s Farewell Address
- Making the New Republic (1789–1800) - Review
- Unit 9:: The Jeffersonian Revolution (1800–1816)
- James Madison and the Second War for Independence
- The Embargo Act
- The Election of 1800
- The Jeffersonian Revolution (1800–1816) - Review
- Unit 10:: The Roots of American Exceptionalism (1815–1850)
- Freedom’s Limits
- A New Republicanism
- The American System
- The Roots of American Exceptionalism (1815–1850) - Review
- Unit 11:: Democracy in America (1820–1850)
- The Missouri Controversy
- Life, Liberty, and Property
- Jacksonian America
- Democracy in America (1820–1850) - Review
- Unit 12:: The Old South: Slavery and the Politics of the Plantation (1808–1860)
- Slave Rebellions and the Quest for Freedom
- Minstrel Shows and the Construction of Black Identity
- Planters, Yeomen, and Tenants
- The Old South: Slavery and the Politics of the Plantation (1808–1860) - Review
- Unit 13:: Manifest Destiny
- Southern Demands for the Expansion of Slavery
- Deepening Economic and Social Discord between North and South
- The Compromise of 1850
- Manifest Destiny - Review
- Unit 14:: The Gathering Storm (1850–1860)
- Abraham Lincoln’s Election
- The Dred Scott Decision
- The Rise of the Republican Party
- The Gathering Storm (1850–1860) - Review
- Unit 15:: America at War (1861–1865)
- The Road to Appomattox and Peace
- The Process of Southern Secession
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- America at War (1861–1865) - Review
- Unit 16:: Reconstruction (1863–1877)
- The Election of 1868 and Republican Dominance
- Presidential Reconstruction
- Reconstruction Efforts during the War
- Reconstruction (1863–1877) - Review