Lecture 1.1a - Exploration, Discovery, Conquest
Intro to Seminar: (given at "Summer meeting" last June)
Sepulveda and LasCasas
Readings 1.1 - First Contact
1a: "A Letter to the Treasurer of Spain", Christopher Columbus, (1493)
1b: "On the Beginnings of the Portuguese-African Slave Trade", (1400)
1c: "What Happened Until the First Supply", John Smith (1608)
Lecture 1.1b - Explorers and Colonists
Checkup Quiz 1
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Lecture 1.2a - The 13 Colonies and the British Empire
Readings 1.2 - Early Colonies
1d: "The Book of the General Laws" (1685)
1e: "John Cotton Describes New England's Theocracy" (1636)
1f: "Anne Huchinson is Banished" (1637)
1g: "John Winthrop's Concept of Liberty" (1645)
1h: "Puritan Mistreatment of Quakers" (1660)
Lecture 1.2 b - Colonial Society
DBQ practice - English Colonies
Textbook: American Pageant Chapters 1-5
Ch 1: "New World Beginnings" - Reading Guide 1
Ch 2: "The Planting of English America" - Reading Guide 2
Ch 3: "Settling the Northern Colonies" - Reading Guide 3
Ch 4: "American Life in the 17th Century" - Reading Guide 4
Ch 5: "Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution" - Reading Guide 5
more American Pageant reading guides:
Ch 1
Ch 2
Ch 3
Ch 4
Ch 5
Exam:
50 questions, multiple choice
> Culture, whether Native American or Colonial, was largely shaped by climate, geography, economics, and history.
> By 1600, Europeans had created the world's first truely global economy, and the political and economic rivalries among nations lead to the exploration of new areas of the world.
> Meanwhile, the "Age of Discovery" resulted in the greatest human catastrophe the world has ever known: 90% of Native Americans killed by 1600; slavery of 10s of millons of Africans.
> Summarize the relations between the three major colonial powers in America and the Native Americans.
> Discuss the distinctive patterns of life that developed in the American colonies in response to environmental needs.
> Explain how the First Great Awakening strengthend the ideas of religious freedom and show what connection, if any, it had with the Enlightenment.