American History I
American History I: The Founding Principles will begin with European exploration of the new world and end with the Reconstruction era. Students will examine the historical and intellectual origins of the United States from European exploration and colonial settlement to the Revolutionary and Constitutional eras. Students will learn about the important political and economic factors that contributed to the development of colonial America and the outbreak of the American Revolution as well as the consequences of the Revolution, including the writing and key ideas of the U.S. Constitution. The course will also guide students as they study the establishment of political parties, America’s westward expansion, the growth of sectional conflict, how that sectional conflict led to the Civil War, and the consequences of the Civil War, including Reconstruction.
Unit 1 - Pre-Columbian Settlement, Exploration, and Colonization
“For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.”
- John Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity,” discourse written aboard the Arbella during the voyage to Massachusetts, 1630.
- John Winthrop, “A Modell of Christian Charity,” discourse written aboard the Arbella during the voyage to Massachusetts, 1630.
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Unit 2: French-Indian War, Causes of American Revolution, American Revolution
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, Give me liberty or give me death!" - Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775
French and Indian War
Maps of North American colonial possessions in 1754 (before French-Indian War) and in 1763 (after the Treaty of Paris was signed to end the French-Indian War):
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Unit 3 - Articles of Confederation-Constitution
Unit 4 - A New Nation (Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, War of 1812)
Unit 5 - Expansion and Reform
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Jackson Presidency
Antebellum Reforms
Antebellum Reformers Research links:
Charles G. Finney bio
Charles G. Finney from 'God in America'
Ralph Waldo Emerson bio
Ralph Waldo Emerson background and writings
Henry David Thoreau bio
George Ripley and Brook Farm
Dorothea Dix bio
Horace Mann
Frances Willard
Frances Willard bio
Elizabeth Cady Stanton bio
Stanton and Seneca Falls
Lucretia Mott bio
Mott and Seneca Falls
Susan B. Anthony bio
Grimke Sisters bio
William Lloyd Garrison bio
David Walker bio
David Walker Memorial Project
Sojourner Truth bio
Sojourner Truth info
More on Sojourner Truth
Frederick Douglass bio
Antebellum Reformers Virtual Convention Projects