a. South-Central America—Aztec and Inca – Spain &

Portugal

b. North America – France, Dutch, English, Spanish

1. North America—Numbers vary 12-20 million

A. Pre-Columbian (1491) compare & contrast: ag, resource use, social

structure

1. Native societies

2. Agriculture, hunter gatherer, nomadic – Geographic differences

UNIT 1

COMPARE GOALS (POL, ECO, SOC) OF EURO COLONIZERS

IMPACT OF GOALS ON DEVELOPMENT OF SETTLEMENT

Map of Fr, Br, Dutch & English colonies in N. America

Cultural Impact -- the Columbian Exchange

Causes & effects of demo, eco & soc changes due to C.E.

Picture/map Columbian

exchange

I. Early Virginia SettlementA. English Background

B. Jamestown

1. Powhatan empire

2. Starving Time

3. Goals—gold & silver - tobacco-Indentured servants & slavery

4. Rapid growth—need for House of Burgesses, slaves, women

5. Bacon’s Rebellion – challenge to authority

a. Indentured Servants

b. Failure of governor to support settlers

II. The Carolinas and Georgia

1. Wealthy from West Indies

2. Outpost against Spanish

3. Stono Rebellion 1739

Carolinas

Virginia

III. New England Utopia

1. Religious reasons

a. Pilgrims and Mayflower - Plymouth

1. SEPARATISTS

2. Majority rule—make own laws

3. Families

2. Mass Bay Company--1630 joint stock company, but not separatists

a. Closed, harmonious, consensus, utopia

b. Democratic town meeting

c. General Court 1630

3. Puritan family – compare MA & VA

a. Patriarchial

4. By 1660 problems a. The Half-Way Covenant-1662

b. Antinomians—Hutchinson criticized ministers

c. King Philip’s War

d. Merchants and Dominion of NE

e. Salem Witch Trials 1692

IV. Middle Colonies – heterogeneous: religion, ethnicity, ag, mfg., shipping

A. New York – Dutch sold to English

B. Pennsylvania – Land grant from England

a. William Penn's (Quaker) Holy Experiment

C. New Jersey – Dutch, New Netherland & Swedes, New Sweden 1609

English took over 1660’s

AMERICA IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE

A. The Enlightenment—1660 Rational, scientific, observation

B. Great Awakening 1720-1750—Emotional evangelicalism

1. Optimism of self made man

2. “Salvation in your hands”

C. Empire Building

1. Benign Abandonment 1607-1650

2. Era of Militarism 1650-1720

Mercantilism & Nav Acts

3. Era of Salutary Neglect 1720-1748

Hands off, lax enforcement

4. Era of Empire 1748-1776

Albany Plan, increased tensions,

1764 Sugar Act—Writs of Assistance— Quartering Act

1765 Stamp Act—then Congress, 1767 Townshend Acts, ‘68 Troops

in Boston, ‘70 Boston Massacre, ‘73 Tea Party, ‘74 Intolerable Acts, 1st

Cont. Cong.

d. Quebec Act was “intolerable because it granted land in Ohio to Canadians

D. War caused deeper problems with debt and taxes

1. Move to War

2. a. 1775 Olive Branch,

3. b. 1776 The D of I

4. REVOLUTION

A. 2ND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1775

B. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION

SUCCESSES & CHALLENGES

C. TREATY OF PARIS 1783

UNIT 2

B. RECONSIDERATION OF AOC

1. Shays Rebellion

2. Annapolis Convention

a. Compromises—3/5, 1808, Great Compromise

1. Sep of powers

2. Bicameral leg

3. Check and balances

b. But nothing about judicial review

C. Constitutional Convention

D. A New Nation

1. Hamilton —Funding, Assumption (Not pay original owners)

2. Compromise on capital

3. Treaties: Jay ‘74 & Pinckney ‘75

4. Economic Issues: Funding & Assumption, National Bank

5. Whiskey Rebellion – Don’t mess with George

6. Farewell Address: no alliances, no parties

E. Welcome to the Adams Administration

a. Quasi War—XYZ

b. Alien Sedition Act

c. VA-KY Resolves – States Rights

d. Marbury v. Madison – Judicial Review – Marshall, Federalist

F. Jefferson Administration – 1800 Bloodless Rev.

1. LA Purchase 1803

2. Court - Marshall

3. Embargo

G. Madison and War Causes:

1. War HawkS

2. NO FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

a. Treaty of Ghent—Status Quo

b. Jackson and NO

c. Hartford Convention

UNIT 3

CCOT – A.Ham v T.Jeff & American System – eco dev.

1. Clay’s American System

2. Slater, Lowell – river power – Gibbons v. Ogden

3. Later came cheap labor, Boston harbor, canals

4. Market Revolution: impact on ag, tech, commerce, migration

4. Jackson Administration 1829-1837

a. Corrupt Bargain-1824

b. Native Americans increased AJ popularity

c. Tariff 1828 – SC Exposition & Protest (VA/KY)

d. Bank Veto – McCulloch

e. Cherokee Nation & Worcester v. GA

f. Trail of Tears

g. Rise of Whigs

Antebellum American Society – Influence of 2nd Great Awakening on Society

1. Abolition—Garrison; Temperance-Beecher

2. Transcendentalists

3. Seneca Falls 1848

4. Toqueville – Tyranny of the Majority

UNIT 4 – Role of Westward Expansion & impact on slavery, immigration,

industrialization, agriculture etc.

Antebellum Foreign Policy

1. Webster Ashburton Treaty

2. War with Mexico

a. Wilmot Proviso3. Foreign Immigrants—Know nothings hated catholic immigrants

4. KS-NE ACT

5. Dred Scott v. Sanford

Lincoln Admin

1. Election of 1860

2. Secession

3. Emancipation – those not in rebellion

4. President Johnson

UNIT 5 – Causes & effects of Civil War & Reconstruction

Reconstruction- Lincoln’s 10% Plan – too lenient

1. Presidential

2. Congressional

3. Black & Tan

4. Civil War Amendments

5. Ultimately failed; sharecropping, crop lien, KKK

Gilded Age

1. Grant corruption

2. Farm problems Panic 1873, Munn v Ill., Wabash, ICC

UNIT 6 Big Bus., Imm., West Exp., Natives, Eco. Growth, Labor

3. Urbanization

a. Social Gospelb. Gospel of Wealth

c. Jacob Riis

d. Single Tax – Henry George

4. Immigration

a. Old Immigrants-NW Europe

b. New Immigrants from S and E Europe. Italy, Greece, Slavic, Russia

5. Political Reform? – Laissez Faire Approach

a. ICC

b. Sherman Anti-Trust Act

LABORKNIGHTS OF LABOR – POWDERLY

AFL – GOMPERS1886-BREAD & BUTTER ISSUES

STRIKES: UNION PAC RR – 1884

MCCORMICK REAPER -1886, HAYMARKET

HOMESTEAD 1892

PULLMAN 1895 – IN RE DEBS CASE