II. Renaissance
A. Humanism and Civic Humanism
B. Classics and Inventions
C. The "New" Science of Mechanism
III. Explore for What?
A. Where?
B. How?
IV. The Runners in the Race
A. Portugal
B. Spain
C. France
D. England
I. English Background
A. Monarchical Political Culture
B. English Society and Economy 1500s
C. Why Leave?
II. Why Come to America?
A. Goals
B. Expectations and Realities
III. Saving Virginia
A. Tobacco and Tobacco Culture
B. Government
IV. The Chesapeake By 1650
3. "Surely Then New England Was Settled for Religious Liberty?"
I. European Reformation
A. Catholic Corruption
B. Reforming the European Church
C. English Reformation
II. Who Were the Puritans and Why Did They Leave England?
A. Religious Origins
B. Social Origins
III. The Great Migration
A. Pilgrim "Splitters" (Separatists)
B. Puritan Zionists
C. Covenant to Commonwealth
IV. The New England Town
A. Communities and Congregations
B. Town Meetings
C. Family Life
V. New England by 1650
4. "There Goes the Neighborhood: It's a 'New World' for the Indians Too!"
I. Paradise Lost? Pre-Contact America
A.Migration--Religion--Agriculture
& Land Usage--Sex & Society--Government--Trade &
Alliances & Warfare--Economy
II. A Forest Primeval?
A. Explorer's Reports
B. A Virgin Land or a "Widowed" One?
III. "Settling" a Course for Disaster?
A. Migration--Religion & Conquest
Ideology--Land Ownership--Sex & Society--Government--
Economy & Alliances & Warfare--Race and "the Savage Heathen"
IV. Contact, 1600-1700: A Crisis of Expectations
A. The "Norm"
1. Virginia
and Genocide
2. New England
B. The Exceptions and Possibilities
1. French
Jesuits
2. William
Penn
V. A Pattern for the Future?
I. The American Paradox
II. European Enslavement of Africans
A. Economics and the "Savage Heathen"
B. The Trade
C. The "Middle Passage"
III. Virginia
A. Slow to Take Hold, 1617-1680
B. Why the Swith from White Indentured
Servants to Black Slaves
1. Political,
Economic, and Demographic Factors
IV. Slavery and Colonial America, 1700-1775
A. Slave Communities
B. Variations of Slavery
1. West Indies--Carolinas--the
Chesapeake--the North
C. Slave Resistance
D. Early Anti-Slavery
V. American Slavery=American Freedom?
I. The Great War for Empire (or The French and Indian
War)
A. The American War
B. British Victory and Debt
II. Imperial Reform~American Resistance
A. Securing the Empire
1. Proclamation
of 1763
2. The Quebec
Act
B. Economic Reform
1. Sugar Act,
1764
2. Stamp Act
and Declaratory Act, 1765, 1766
3. Townshend
Duties, 1767
4. Boston
Massacre, 1770
5. Tea Act,
1773
6. Coercive
Acts, 1774
III. A Continental Congress, 1774-1775, But Still No Revolution--What Gives?
I. General Confusion Commands the Troops
A. The Continental Congress and the
Road to Independence
B. Rebels and Loyalists, or Patriots
and Tories, and Nuetrals, Oh My!
C. The "Rage Militare" and Early Success
for the "Minutemen"
1. Lexington
and Concord, Saratoga, Bunker Hill
D. The "Olive Branch" and Independence
E. Fatigue and Losses
1. Bunker
Hill, New York, Philadelphia
F. A Continental Army and Baron Von
Steuben
G. The French Alliance and LaFayette
H. Victory and the Treaty of Paris
II. Revolutionary Effects on...
A. Society
1. Ordinary
Men
2. Women
3. African
Americans
4. Native
Americans
B. Politics and Government
C. The Economy
III. Framing a Constitutional National Republic: A Counter-Revolution?
A. Localism vs. Nationalism, Antifederalists
vs. Federalists
B. Madison and the Virginia Plan
C. Patterson and the New Jersey Plan
D. The Great Compromise and the Seeds
of Disunion
1. Power,
Slavery, Economy
8. "The Revolution Secured, Onto Industrialization:
Republicanism Fades to Individualism and Capitalism
I. Capitalism Overtakes Republicanism
A. Ideas: From "Common Wealth" to
"Rugged Individualism"
B. Federal Government Leads the Way
C. State Governments Quick to Follow
II. Public/Private Cooperation Builds a "National Market
Economy"
A. A Spirit of Inventiveness and "Good
Ole Yankee Know-How"
B. Financing Industrialization...Private
Capital & Corporate Welfare
C. Labor Pool Swells to an Ocean
D. Transportation Revolution
E. The Factory System and Urban America
III. Where Will This Lead? Can Republican Political
Culture Survive?
9. "From Individualism to Democracy:
Politics and Society in "Jacksonian America"
I. Forging a Democratic Political Culture
A. Republicanism No More?
B. The National Market Economy
C. Equality of Opportunity...Interest
Based Politics
II. Financial Crisis: Panic of 1819 and the Monied Interest
III. Missouri Crisis, 1819-1820 and the Slavery Interest
A. Louisianna Purchase
B. Missouri Bill
C. Compromise of 1820
IV. Political Parties Democratize American Politics
A. Individual Interests...Politics
of the Common Man
B. Universal White Male Suffrage
C. Conventions and Platforms
D. Civil Service Expansion
III.Democratic Politics and Equality of Opportunity, 1824-1840
A. Henry Clay's American System
B. The "Corrupt Bargain" Election
C. Jackson and the Democrats
1. Nullification,
Gag Rules, and Bank Wars
D. The Whigs and "Ole Tippecanoe"
1. "Log Cabins
and Hard Cider"
IV. Where Doth the Ball Roll?
I. Cotton Gin and the the Expansion of Slavery
A. Slavery as an Economic Institution
B. Some Numbers
II. Cruelties of an Economic Institution
A. Slave Codes
B. Patriarchy
III. Resisting Slavery
A. Family and Community
B. Religion
C. Rebellion
D. Escape
IV. Slavery and Democratic Political Culture
A. The Symbol of Opportunity
B. Reality of Planter Domination
I. An Age of Prosperity and Conspiracies
A. "Slave Power" vs. "The International
Abolitionist Conspiracy"
B. Crisis in Pennsylvania
II. Crisis in Kansas. 1854-1857
A. Kansas- Nebraska Act, 1854
1. a Republican
Party?
B. Slavery in Kansas?
III. Dred Scott, 1857
IV. Lincoln-Douglass Debates, 1858
V. John Brown's Raid, 1859
VI. Election of 1860
VII. Secession--Conspiracies Confirmed?
12. "General Stupidity Commands the Troops: Bullets and Battles"
I. The "USA" vs. "the South"
II. Stage 1: Stalemate, 1861-1862
A. On to Richmond! Part 1
B. The Anaconda Plan
C. On to Richmond! Part 2
D. On to Richmond? Again? Yes, Part
3
III. Stage 2: Southern Offensive, Fall 1862-Summer 1863
A. Antietam and Kentucky
B. On to Richmond! Oh Please, not
again? Yes, Again, Part 4
C. Emancipation Proclamation
1. Contraband
and Black Freedom Fighters
D. Gettysburg and Vicksburg
IV. Stage 3: US War of Attrition
A. On To Richmond! What an Original
Concept!
B. On to Atlanta!
C. On to Ford's Theatre!
D. On to Appomattox?
V. Human and National Consequences