Course curriculum

    1. Syllabus

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    1. 1.1 Native American Societies Before European Contact: Regions and Cultures

    2. Quiz 1.1

    3. 1.1 Interactive Lab: Environment and Way of Life

    4. 1.2 European Exploration in the Americas: Motives, Technology and Routes

    5. Quiz 1.2

    6. 1.2 Interactive Lab: Voyages and Motives

    7. 1.3 Columbian Exchange, Spanish Exploration, and Conquest

    8. Quiz 1.3

    9. 1.3 Interactive Lab: Which Way Did It Cross?

    10. 1.4 Labor, Slavery, and Caste in the Spanish Colonial System

    11. Quiz 1.4

    12. 1.5 Cultural Interactions Between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

    13. Quiz 1.5

    14. 1.5 Interactive Lab: Sequence and Causation in Period 1

    1. 2.1 European Colonization: Motives and Early Settlements

    2. Quiz 2.1

    3. 2.2 The Regions of British Colonies: New England, Middle, Chesapeake and Southern

    4. Quiz 2.2

    5. 2.2 Interactive Lab: Sort the Colonial Regions

    6. 2.3 Transatlantic Trade: Mercantilism and the Navigation Acts

    7. Quiz 2.3

    8. 2.3 Interactive Lab: Customs House: Legal or Smuggled?

    9. 2.4 Interactions Between American Indians and Europeans: Cooperation and Conflict

    10. Quiz 2.4

    11. 2.5 Slavery in the British Colonies

    12. Quiz 2.5

    13. 2.5 Interactive Lab: Law and Life: Building and Resisting Slavery

    14. 2.6 Colonial Society and Culture: Religion, Great Awakening and Enlightenment

    15. Quiz 2.6

    16. 2.6 Interactive Lab: Awakening and Enlightenment: Compare, Don't Just Describe

    1. 3.1 The Seven Years' War (The French and Indian War): Causes and Consequences

    2. Quiz 3.1

    3. 3.1 Interactive Lab: Build the Causation Chain: From Victory to Anger

    4. 3.2 Taxation Without Representation: British Policies and Colonial Resistance

    5. Quiz 3.2

    6. 3.2 Interactive Lab: From Sugar Act to Shots Fired

    7. 3.3 Philosophical Foundations of the American Revolution: Enlightenment and Republicanism

    8. Quiz 3.3

    9. 3.3 Interactive Lab: Reading the Declaration Like a Historian

    10. 3.4 The American Revolution: Campaigns and Turning Points

    11. Quiz 3.4

    12. 3.5 The Influence of Revolutionary Ideals: Abolition, Women and Native Americans

    13. Quiz 3.5

    14. 3.6 The Articles of Confederation: Achievements and Weaknesses

    15. Quiz 3.6

    16. 3.6 Interactive Lab: Counting Votes Under the Articles

    17. 3.7 The Constitutional Convention and Debates over Ratification; The Constitution

    18. Quiz 3.7

    19. 3.7 Interactive Lab: Counting Seats and Sorting Arguments

    20. 3.8 Shaping a New Republic: Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson

    21. Quiz 3.8

    22. 3.8 Interactive Lab: Hamilton or Jefferson? Sorting the 1790s

    23. 3.9 Developing an American Identity and Movement in the Early Republic

    24. Quiz 3.9

    1. 4.1 The Rise of Political Parties and the Era of Jefferson

    2. Quiz 4.1

    3. 4.1 Interactive Lab: Marbury or McCulloch? Sorting the Marshall Court

    4. 4.2 Politics and Regional Interests; America on the World Stage

    5. Quiz 4.2

    6. 4.2 Interactive Lab: Regions and the World Stage

    7. 4.3 Market Revolution: Industrialization

    8. Quiz 4.3

    9. 4.3 Interactive Lab: What Falling Costs Do

    10. 4.4 Market Revolution: Society and Culture

    11. Quiz 4.4

    12. 4.5 Expanding Democracy; Jackson and Federal Power

    13. Quiz 4.5

    14. 4.5 Interactive Lab: The Election of 1824

    15. 4.6 The Development of an American Culture

    16. Quiz 4.6

    17. 4.7 The Second Great Awakening and An Age of Reform

    18. Quiz 4.7

    19. 4.7 Interactive Lab: Sorting the Age of Reform

    20. 4.8 African Americans in the Early Republic

    21. Quiz 4.8

    22. 4.9 The Society of the South in the Early Republic

    23. Quiz 4.9

    24. 4.9 Interactive Lab: Causation Workshop: Why Cotton and Slavery?

    1. 5.1 Manifest Destiny: Expansion and Ideology

    2. Quiz 5.1

    3. 5.2 The Mexican-American War

    4. Quiz 5.2

    5. 5.3 The Compromise of 1850

    6. Quiz 5.3

    7. 5.3 Interactive Lab: Who Gained What in 1850?

    8. 5.4 Sectional Conflict: Regional Differences

    9. Quiz 5.4

    10. 5.5 Failure of Compromise: Kansas-Nebraska, Dred Scott and John Brown

    11. Quiz 5.5

    12. 5.5 Interactive Lab: From Kansas to Secession

    13. 5.6 Election of 1860 and Secession

    14. Quiz 5.6

    15. 5.6 Interactive Lab: The Arithmetic of 1860

    16. 5.7 Military Conflict in the Civil War

    17. Quiz 5.7

    18. 5.7 Interactive Lab: From Fort Sumter to Appomattox

    19. 5.8 Government Policies During the Civil War

    20. Quiz 5.8

    21. 5.9 Reconstruction: Plans, Amendments and Radical Reconstruction

    22. Quiz 5.9

    23. 5.9 Interactive Lab: Three Amendments and a Black Code

    24. 5.10 Failure of Reconstruction

    25. Quiz 5.10

    26. 5.10 Interactive Lab: One Vote and an Informal Deal

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