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2. Introduction to the Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
3. The Americas
4. Europe on the Brink of Change
5. West Africa and the Role of Slavery
6. Primary Source Reading: A Slave Revolt
7. Primary Source Reading: The Life of Gustavus Vassa
8. National Geographic Documentary: Mystery Of Aztec & Maya Civilizations
9. Aztec Civilization
10. Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged
11. Central and South American Empires
12. Introduction
13. Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest
14. Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World
15. Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy
16. New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian Exchange
17. Video: The Black Legend, Native Americans, and Spaniards
18. Primary Source Reading: Vasco De Gama
19. The Roanoke Colony: US History Review
20. John White Searches for Lost Colonists of Roanoke
21. Native American Society on the Eve of British Colonization
22. War of the American Indians Documentary on the History of the Iroquois 2
23. Introduction
24. Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
25. The Castillo de San Marcos
26. Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
27. Video: When is Thanksgiving? Colonizing America
28. Video: The Natives and the English
29. The Impact of Colonization
30. Primary Source Reading: Jamestown Charter
31. Primary Source Reading: Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation
32. A Lost World
33. Introduction
34. Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
35. Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
36. The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
37. An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
38. Great Awakening and Enlightenment
39. Wars for Empire
40. Video: The Seven Years War and the Great Awakening
41. Video: Philadelphia The Great Experiment. A Lost World 1600-1680.
42. The Middle Colonies
43. Primary Source Reading: The Social Contract
44. Primary Source Reading: A Treatise on Tolerance
45. Introduction
46. Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
47. The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
48. The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
49. The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
50. Video: Taxes & Smuggling - Prelude to Revolution
51. Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
52. Primary Source Reading: Common Sense
53. Primary Source Reading: "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!"
54. Primary Source Reading: The Declaration of Independence
55. Introduction
56. Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
57. The Early Years of the Revolution
58. War in the South
59. Identity during the American Revolution
60. Video: Who Won the American Revolution?
61. Introduction
62. Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
63. How Much Revolutionary Change?
64. Debating Democracy
65. The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
66. Video: The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
67. Video: Where US Politics Came From
68. Primary Source Reading: The U.S. Constitution
69. Listen: Early American Parties Podcast
70. Assignment: The Constitution
71. Introduction
72. Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
73. The New American Republic
74. Partisan Politics
75. Video: Thomas Jefferson & His Democracy
76. The United States Goes Back to War
77. Video: The War of 1812
78. Primary Source Reading: The Alien and Sedition Acts
79. Primary Source Reading: The Star-Spangled Banner
80. Introduction
81. Early Industrialization in the Northeast
82. Video: The Market Revolution
83. A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
84. On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
85. A New Social Order: Class Divisions
86. Primary Source Reading: The Mercantile System
87. Primary Source Reading: Lowell Mill Girls
88. Primary Source Reading: The Life of the Industrial Worker
89. Primary Source Reading: Irish Immigration
90. Extra Credit Assignments
91. Introduction
92. A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
93. The Rise of American Democracy
94. The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
95. Video: Age of Jackson
96. Indian Removal
97. The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
98. Primary Source Reading: "An Address to the Whites"
99. Primary Source Reading: Speech to Congress on India Removal
100. Primary Source Reading: Jackson and the Bank of the U.S.
101. Introduction
102. Lewis and Clark
103. The Missouri Crisis
104. Independence for Texas
105. The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
106. Video: War & Expansion
107. Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
108. Primary Source Reading: The Great Nation of Futurity
109. Introduction
110. The Economics of Cotton
111. African Americans in the Antebellum United States
112. Video: Slavery
113. Wealth and Culture in the South
114. The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
115. Primary Source Reading: Twelve Years a Slave
116. Primary Source Reading: Fredrick Douglass
117. Primary Source Reading: John Calhoun on Slavery
118. Primary Source Reading: The Life of Plantation Field Hands
119. Twelve Years a Slave (1859)
120. Introduction
121. An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
122. Video: 19th Century Reforms
123. Antebellum Communal Experiments
124. Reforms to Human Health
125. Addressing Slavery
126. Women’s Rights
127. Video: Women in the 19th Century
128. Primary Source Reading: The Declaration of Sentiments
129. Primary Source Reading: The Liberator
130. Primary Source Reading: Henry Box Brown
131. Primary Source Reading: Letter from Anthony Burns to the Baptist Church
132. Introduction
133. The Compromise of 1850
134. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
135. John Brown and the Election of 1860
136. Video: The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion
137. The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
138. Introduction
139. The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
140. Early Mobilization and War
141. Video: Battles of the Civil War
142. 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
143. The Union Triumphant
144. Videos: The Civil War
145. Primary Source Reading: The Emancipation Proclamation
146. Primary Source Reading: Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address
147. Primary Source Reading: Stephens' Cornerstone Address
148. Introduction
149. Restoring the Union
150. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
151. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
152. The Collapse of Reconstruction
153. Video: Reconstruction and 1876
154. The Declaration of Independence
155. The Constitution of the United States
156. Presidents of the United States of America
157. U.S. Political Map
158. U.S. Topographical Map
159. United States Population Chart
160. Further Reading
Excerpts from John White’s journal of his 1590 voyage to find the lost colonists of Roanoke.
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