US History 1 Conquest:

 Lectures. essays, and other secondary sources


Native Americans

Explorers

Wars

Native Americans

Perspectives

Introductory Essay

Native American Timeline to 1890 

Origins

Native Americans Pre-Columbian Era to Present

Native Histories

An Introduction to North America's Native People

Northwest Coast Culture Area

Photographs of Edward Curtis

 

Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881) brought national attention to the plight of Native Americans when it was published in 1881. Jackson, a Massachusetts native who had traveled to California, describes in particular the plight of the California Indians.

 


Legal Issues

The Legacy of Bartolomé de Las Casas

Sovereignty Issues and the Law

Indians and the Law

Animated Map of Native Land Cessions


Culture

Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project

Native Languages Page

Gravecreek Stone Controversy


Handsome Lake

Sequoyah

Tecumseh


 

Explorers

Motivation for Expansion

Europe on the Eve of Discovery

Mercantilism and Sea-Borne Empire

Queen Philippa and the Portuguese Empire

Novus Orbis: Images of the New World

Oh Brave New World: Invention of America

Encomienda and Slavery Lynne Guitar  

Spanish Overseas Expansion

Manifest Destiny/ Exploring  Bibliography


Short Histories of Explorers

Innovation

Wind

On Columbus

Animated maps of early explorer's routes

John Smith Voyages at Virtual Jamestown  


 

Wars

100 Years War 1337–1453, conflict between England and France.


War of the Roses 1455–85 traditional name given to the intermittent struggle for the throne of England between the noble houses of York (whose badge was a white rose) and Lancaster (later associated with the red rose).


The Aztec Account of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico

Visión de los Vencidos Relaciones indígenas de la Conquista 

Bartolomé de Las Casas, "Of the Island of Hispaniola" (1542)


Masons Narrative of the Pequot War (1636-1637)

English Civil War (1642–48), 

King Philip's War (1675-1676)

King Williams War (1689-1697)

Glorious Revolution (1688–89)

Queen Anne's War (1702-1713)

Lovewells War (1718-1725)

King George's War (1744-1748)


The French and Indian War (1754-1763)

Colonial War  European War
King Williams War  (1689–97)  European War of the Grand Alliance 1688–97
Queen Anne’s War (1702–13)  War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1714
King George’s War (1744-1748)  War of Jenkins’s Ear, & the War of the Austrian Succession 1740–48

French and Indian War Chronology

Maps of the French and Indian War

Whiskey Rebellion

Revolutionary War and Frontier Conflicts (1775-1811)

War of 1812

War with Mexico

Filibustering Cuba

Filibustering Mexico

Filibustering Central America

 

Definitions, Identifications, Narratives Primary Sources

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