Unit 1: Contact Through the Constitution 1491-1791
I.
Chapter 1: A New World
A. The First Americans
E.
The Spanish Empire
1.
Indian Societies of the Americas
1.
Governing Spanish America
2.
Mound Builders of the Mississippi
Valley
2.
Colonists in Spanish America
3.
Colonists and Indians
3.
Western Indians
4.
Justifications for Conquest
4.
Indians of Eastern North America
5.
Spreading the Faith
5.
Native American Religion
6.
Piety and Profit
6.
Land and Property
7.
Las Casas’s Complaint
7.
Gender Relations
8.
Reforming the Empire
8.
European Views of the Indians
9.
Exploring North America
10. Spanish Florida
B. Indian Freedom, European Freedom
1.
Indian Freedom
11. Spain in the Southwest
2.
Christian Liberty
12. The Pueblo Revolt
3.
Freedom and Authority
4.
Liberty and Liberties
C. The Expansion of Europe
F.
The French and Dutch Empires
1.
French Colonization
2.
New France and the Indians
1.
Chinese and Portuguese Navigation
3.
The Dutch Empire
2.
Portugal and West Africa
4.
Dutch Freedom
3.
Freedom and Slavery in Africa
5.
Freedom in New Netherland
4.
The Voyages of Columbus
6.
The Dutch and Religious Toleration
7.
Settling New Netherland
8.
New Netherland and the Indians
D. Contact
1.
Columbus in the New World
2.
Exploration and Conquest
3.
The Demographic Disaster
II.
Beginnings of English America
A. England and the New World
D. The New England Way
1.
Unifying the English Nation
1.
The Rise of Puritanism
2.
England and Ireland
2.
Moral Liberty
3.
England and North America
3.
The Pilgrims at Plymouth
4.
Spreading Protestantism
4.
The Great Migration
5.
The Social Crisis
5.
The Puritan Family
6.
Masterless Men
6.
Government
Massachusetts
7.
Church and
Massachusetts
B. The Coming of the English
and
State
Society
in
1.
English Emigrants
2.
Indentured Servants
3.
Lands and Liberty
1.
Roger Williams
4.
5.
Gentlemen and Indians
The Transformation of Indian Life
2.
Rhode Island and Connecticut
3.
The Trials of Anne Hutchinson
6.
Changes in the Land
4.
Puritans and Indians
5.
The Pequot War
E.
C. Settling the Chesapeake
Jamestown Colony
6.
The New England Economy
2.
From Company to Society
7.
The Merchant Elite
3.
Powhatan and Pocahontas
8.
The Halfway Covenant
4.
The Uprising of 1622
5.
A Tobacco Colony
6.
Women and the Family
7.
The Maryland Experiment
8.
Religion in Maryland
F.
Puritan
New England Divided
1.
in
Religion, Politics and Freedom
1.
The Rights of Englishmen
2.
The English Civil War
3.
England’s Debate Over Freedom
4.
English Liberty
5.
The Civil War and English America
6.
The Crisis in Maryland
7.
Cromwell and the Empire
III.
Creating Anglo America
A. Global Competition and the Expansion of
England’s Empire
C. Colonies in Crisis
1.
The Glorious Revolution
2.
The Glorious Revolution in America
3.
The Maryland Uprising
4.
Leisler’s Rebellion
New York and the Indians
5.
Changes in New England
5.
The Charter of Liberties
6.
The Prosecution of Witches
6.
The Founding of Carolina
7.
The Salem Witchcraft Trials
7.
The Holy Experiment
8.
Quaker Liberty
9.
Land in Pennsylvania
1.
The Mercantilist System
2.
The Conquest of New Netherland
3.
New York and the Rights
Englishmen and Englishwomen
4.
of
D. The Growth of Colonial America
B. Origins of American Slavery
1.
A Diverse Population
2.
Attracting Settlers
3.
The German Migration
1.
Englishmen and Africans
4.
Religious Diversity
2.
Slavery in History
5.
Indian Life in Transition
3.
Slavery in the West Indies
6.
Regional Diversity
4.
Slavery and the Law
7.
The Consumer Revolution
5.
The Rise of Chesapeake Slavery
8.
Colonial Cities
6.
Bacon’s Rebellion: Land and Labor in
Virginia
9.
Colonial Artisans
7.
The End of
Consequences
8.
A Slave Society
9.
Notions of Freedom
Rebellion,
and
10. An Atlantic World
Its
E.
Social Change in the Colonies
1.
The Colonial Elite
2.
Anglicanization
3.
The South Carolina Aristocracy
4.
Poverty in the Colonies
5.
The Middle Ranks
6.
Women and the Household Economy
7.
North America at Mid-Century
IV.
A.
B.
C.
Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire
Slavery and Empire
D. The Public Sphere
1.
Atlantic Trade
1.
The Right to Vote
2.
Africa and the Slave Trade
2.
Political Cultures
3.
The Middle Passage
3.
Colonial Government
4.
Chesapeake Slavery
4.
The Rise of the Assemblies
5.
Freedom and Slavery in the Chesapeake
5.
Politics in Public
6.
Indian Slavery in Early Carolina
6.
The Colonial Press
7.
The Rice Kingdom
7.
Freedom of Expression and It’s Limits
8.
The Georgia Experiment
8.
The Trial of Zenger
9.
Slavery in the North
9.
The American Enlightenment
Slave Cultures and Slave Resistance
E.
The Great Awakening
1.
Becoming African American
1.
Religious Revivals
2.
African Religion in Colonial America
2.
The Preaching of Whitefield
3.
African American Cultures
3.
The Awakening’s Impact
4.
Resistance to Slavery
5.
The Crisis of 1739-1741
F.
Imperial Rivalries
1.
Spanish North America
An Empire of Freedom
2.
The Spanish in California
1.
British Patriotism
3.
The French Empire
2.
The British Constitution
3.
The Language of Liberty
4.
Republican Liberty
5.
Liberal Freedom
G.
Battle for the Continent
1.
The Middle of the Road
2.
The Seven Year’s War
3.
A World Transformed
4.
Pontiac’s Rebellion
5.
The Proclamation Line
6.
Pennsylvania and the Indians
7.
Colonial Identities
V.
The American Revolution
D. Securing Independence
A. The Crisis Begins
1.
Consolidating the Empire
1.
The Balance of Power
2.
Taxing the Colonies
2.
Blacks in the Revolution
3.
The Stamp Act Crisis
3.
The 1st Years of the War
4.
Taxation and Representation
4.
The Battle of Saratoga
5.
Liberty and Resistance
5.
The War in the South
6.
Politics in the Streets
6.
Victory at Last
7.
The Regulators
8.
The Tenant Uprising
B. The Road to Revolution
1.
The Townshend Crisis
2.
Homespun Virtue
3.
The Boston Massacre
4.
Wilkes and Liberty
5.
The Tea Act
6.
The Intolerable Acts
C. The Coming of Independence
1.
The Continental Congress
2.
The Continental Association
3.
The Sweets of Liberty
4.
The Outbreak of War
5.
Independence
6.
Common Sense
7.
Paine’s Impact
8.
The Declaration of Independence
9.
The Declaration of American Freedom
10. An Asylum for Mankind
11. The
Global
Independence
Declaration
of
VI.
The Revolution Within
A. Democratizing Freedom
E.
Slavery and the Revolution
1.
The Dream of Equality
1.
The Language of Slavery and Freedom
2.
Expanding the Political Nation
2.
Obstacles to Abolition
3.
The Revolution in Pennsylvania
3.
The Cause of General Liberty
4.
The New Constitution
4.
Petitions for Freedom
5.
The Right to Vote
5.
British Emancipators
6.
Democratizing Government
6.
Voluntary Emancipations
7.
Abolition in the North
8.
Free Black Communities
B. Toward Religious Toleration
1.
Catholic Americans
2.
The Founders and Religion
3.
Separating Church and State
1.
Revolutionary Women
4.
Jefferson and Religious Liberty
2.
Gender and Politics
5.
The Revolution and Churches
3.
Republican Motherhood
6.
Christian Republicanism
4.
The Arduous Struggle for Liberty.
C. Defining Economic Freedom
1.
Toward Free Labor
2.
The Soul of a Republic
3.
The Politics of Inflation
4. The Debate Over Free Trade
D. The Limits of Liberty
1.
Colonial Loyalists
2.
The Loyalists’ Plight
3.
The Indians’ Revolution
4.
White Freedom, Indian Freedom
F.
Daughters of Liberty