English Beginnings on the Chesapeake (1607–1676)- Review

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Abstract

To understand the ways in which the British colonies in the Chesapeake (primarily Virginia and Maryland) developed economically and socially in the course of the seventeenth century

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