Unit I: A New World

Text Chapters 1-4

Lecture I: European Exploration
A. Reasons for Exploration
1. Outgrowth of Crusades
2. Asian Trade
3. Population growth and land demand
4. Intellectual/Technical Growth
B. Spanish and Portuguese Colonialism
1. Gold and Silver
2. Slave Labor/ Staple Crops
3. Encomienda System
4. Impact on New World Populations
C. English Colonization
1. 1588
2. Reasons for Colonization
a. Competition/Nationalism
b. Religion
c. Economics
d. Population/ Class growth
3. Development of Jamestown
a. Joint Stock Company
b. Success and Failure in Jamestown
c. Native American Relations (Powhatan Confederacy)
d. Rolfe and Tobacco Cultivation
4. Impact of Tobacco Cultivation
5. Maryland
a. Lord Calvert
b. Toleration Act (1649)
6. Impact of Protestant Reformation
a. Religious Persecution
b. Separatists and Congregationalists
c. Plymouth
d. Massachusetts
e. Great Migration
f. “City Upon a Hill”
g. Colonial Religious persecution
 1. Roger Williams 1635
2. Anne Hutchinson 1638
3. Other groups
7. Native American Relations
a. Pequot War
b. King Philip’s War
8. English Civil War and Restoration
9. Proprietorships
a. New York 1664
b. Pennsylvania 1681
c. Carolinas 1663 / 1712 Split
d. Georgia 1732
Lecture II: English Colonial Development
A. Agricultural Growth and Slavery
B. Mercantilism and the Colonial Economy
C. Glorious Revolution/ resulting political turmoil and religious impact
D. Puritanism and Great Awakening

Lecture III: Colonial Growth

A. Economic Growth
B. Westward Movement
C. New France
D. French and Indian War
E. Impact of war on Colonial/English Relations

Unit II: Revolutionary America

Text Chapters 5-7
Lecture I: Origins of the American Revolution
Lecture II: Colonial Political Ideas and Development
Lecture III: Constitutional Thought and Development

Unit III: National Growth and Development

Text Chapters 8-10
Lecture I: Washington’s Administration
Lecture II: Political Parties and Foreign Policy
Lecture III: War, Growth and Panic
Lecture IV: