Unit
1: From New World to New Empires - the
16th Century to 1763 |
Unit 1 covers an
extraordinary period that is much talked about, but very superficially with
emotional arguments seldom grounded in facts. Our Foundations in Europe include
feudalism, theocracy and religious wars and persecution, and servitude (slavery
and serfdom) based not on race but class or having been a defeated power. We
are initially a European people located in a world that is new to us and we try
to remake that world—and its inhabitants—to match our past.
We are transformed in
this period. In United States history, the focus is on the English colonies in
North America. We focus on:
Tip: It is both truth and exaggeration to say the traits that led to the
American Civil War began over two hundred years before 1860.
Finally, we look at
the English colonies in the context of international struggle for empire. About
1763, we examine for the first time how the English colonists were
simultaneously:
You cover within this
Unit three topics (each in a separate folder with a link to all possible
questions in its Reading Quiz, a link to resources, and the online quiz itself)
The three topics are:
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Ed.D. 2003-2013 |
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