US History 1


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   Assignment Instructions for Colonization Unit

Read text Ch2 and Ch3

Be able to answer the reading questions Ch2 and Ch 3.

Look at Secondary and Primary sources for the Colonization Unit. Read those that interest you. Use these as sources for discussion posts, analytic paper or timeline topics.


For each week, 3 through 4, post

one identification or narrative  to the assignments forum on blackboard, and

at least 3 good messages a week to the discussion forum on blackboard.

Use the list below for ideas of things to research or choose your own topic


By semester's end, you must turn in one analysis paper and one timeline. These can be about any topic related to US history up through the Civil War and Reconstruction (ca. 1870). You will have a midterm and a final examination.

Outline

Discussion 

Resources

People

Timelines


 

Terms related to Colonization for your weekly assignments

 

Definitions
indentured servitude utopian society Renaissance 
headright Church of England conquistador
divine Right God's calling indulgence
separatists Gullah Protestantism
nonseparatists mercantilism Counter Reformation
antinomian enumerated goods Northwest Passage
patriarchal navigation system Calvinism
coverature salutary neglect Marian exile
declension Redemptioners Jesuit Relations
half-way covenant rationalism peninsulares
perpetual servitude New Lights criollos (creoles)
chattel slavery Old Lights mullatto
House of Burgesses Scots-Irish Francis Drake
royal colony Huguenots plantation
Puritan Captain John Smith joint stock trading company
Pilgrim encomienda system  
strangers and saints Myth of the Virgin Land Choose your own term and define it

 

Identifications
City on a Hill Royal African Company Cotton Mather
Powhatan Confederacy triangular trade George Washington
Opechancanough middle passage Asiento
Pocahantas Molasses Act 1733 Benjamin Franklin
Plymouth Colony Peter Stuyvesant La Salle
Mayflower Compact Navigation Acts Pocahontas
Massachusetts Bay Colony Tituba Martin Luther
John Winthrop coureurs de bois Richard Hakluyt
Act of Religious Toleration of 1649 Enlightenment Virginia Company
Fundamental Constitutions for Carolina Quakers Walter Raleigh
Roger Williams William and Mary Powhatan
Anne Hutchinson Jonathan Edwards Calvin's Institutes
Rhode Island Edward Randolph Choose your own term and ID it.

 

Narratives
English Revolution Queen Anne's War Bacon's Rebellion
Restoration Stono Slave uprising enclosure movement
Great Migration Fall of New Netherlands Reformation
Pequot War Salem Witchcraft Trials First Thanksgiving
King Philip's War French and Indian War Disappearance of Roanoke
King William's War William Penn's Holy Experiment  Choose your own story and tell it

 

For assignment posts please format the subject with your last name, assignment type and week number, e.g. roebuck-narrative-week 4.


Conquest Colonization Revolution

Republic

Slavery Reform Regions Civil War