1) First Americans - Pre-Columbian America /
Aboriginal America
a) Linguistics and archeology as pre-history
b) Asiatic migration - Bering Land Bridge,etc.
c) Two up to three waves of migration –
Paleo-Indians; The Innuits; The Aleuts
d) Big-Game Hunting Tradition
e) Great South American Pre-Columbian
: The Mayans, The Incas, The Olmecs, The Aztecs
f) North American Aboriginal Cultures
i) Archaic Period
ii) Woodland Period
iii) Mississipian cultures
g) Burial Mounds
h) Temple Mounds
i) Ancient Pueblo - Anasazi
2) "The Encounter" (1492 -- )
a) The European origins of the conquest
b) First Spanish expeditions
c) Spanish Conquest
d) European colonies in America
3) British attempts at settlement
a) John Cabot
b) Walter Raleigh
c) Martin Fribisher
d) others
4) First British colonies
a) Context - social, economic, etc., people, etc.
b) Jamestown, Virginia, J. Smith, etc.
c) The Pilgrims
d) Middle colonies
e) New England
f) Relationships with Indians
5) Colonial America
a) The development of colonies
i) Economic development
ii) Political development
b) Issues of race in the colonial period
i) Indian wars
ii) Issues of slavery
6) American Revolution
a) Context and origins - social, economic,
philosophical, etc., people, etc.
i) The political and economic reality
before the Revolution
ii) Sugar Act
iii) Tea Act
iv) Stamp Act
v) Quebec Act
vi) Currency Act
vii) Intolerable Laws
viii) Boston Tea Party
ix) Stamp Act Congress
x) Committees of Correspondence
xi) Sons of Liberty
xii) First Continental Congress
xiii) Second Continental Congress
b) Declaration of Independence
c) Articles of Confederation
d) The Constitutional Convention
i) ...
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