How do the white parents of Howell respond to the possibility of African American students attending their schools? What is their view of these potential students?

Why does the Normandy school district choose the Francis Howell school district? What does Normandy expect to happen? What actually happens?

Besides police brutality, what is the issue raised by Michael Brown's life and death in Missouri?

Week 16 Video Lecture

Week 15 Video Lecture

Week 14 Video Lecture

Video Study Questions:

What shift occurs in evangelical religion from the 1700s to the 1800s? How does this shift change the view of sin?

What is significant about David Walker's Appeal? What is the response to it?

What is immediatism? What shift does it reflect?

The Labor of Slaves

Study Questions:

What impact does the discovery of "petit Gulf" cotton and the invention of the cotton gin have on western expansion?

How do advancements in transportation effect the production of cotton and its expansion?

Week 12 Video Lecture

Study Questions:

How is St Domingue divided by race and class?

What were Napoleon's plans for St Domingue?

Week 11 Vidoe Lecture

Study Questions:

What do Daniel Shays and his followers want? How do they see their efforts as an extension of the Revolution?

Describe the split in the Constitutional Convention over representation. How was it resolved?

What were some of the disagreements between by the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists in the debates over ratification of the Constitution?

Week 10 Video Lecture

Study Questions:

What political ideas develop in the colonies as a result of Great Britain’s failure to fully define the colonies' relationship to the empire?

What are the Sugar, Currency and Stamp Acts? How do colonists respond to these new laws?

How do protests begin to broaden to include members of colonial societies new to public political participation?

How do slaves and slavery point out the contradictions within the American Revolution?

Week 9 Video Lecture

Study Questions for this week's reading in American Yawp:

What tensions between France and England and the colonies did the Seven Years’s War reveal?

What impact did England’s victory in the Seven Years'

War have upon Native Americans? How was their relationship different with the French than it was with the English?

How does England attempt to increasingly regulate and tax the colonies after the war?

Week 6 Video Lecture

Study Questions for this section:

What change occurs in the 1660s that dramatically affects the nature of slavery?

What was the Middle Passage?

How does the idea of race evolve with the evolution of slavery?

How do the growing tensions in the colonies reflect both tensions with English rule and the resistance of Native Americans?

Week 5 Video Lecture

Study Questions:

What does Abigail Adams mean when she writes “remember the ladies”?

What is John Adams reply to her request?

What power does she claim for women?

Abigail Adams (1744–1818) wrote to her husband John in 1776, as he and other colonial leaders were meeting in Philadelphia in the Second Continental Congress. Adams wrote from Braintree, Massachusetts, where she was raising her four young children and managing the family farm. Although her days were busy with the duties of a single parent living both in a war zone — the British Army was only about twelve miles away in Boston — and in an area ravaged by a smallpox epidemic, she still contemplated the political changes taking place, and those changes are reflected in her appeal to her husband.

Study Question: What is the response of “leading colonists” to the Earl of Loudon’s efforts to command North American forces? What threat does he see?

Study Question:

How does Alibamon Mingo remember his dealings with the French? What does he expect of his dealing with the British?

Study Question:

Do you think the scene that Cole describes is related or similar to more current day religious practice?

How does Cole come to see himself being “saved”? Is it related to a particular church or church authority? How might Cole’s experience be a threat to established church authorities?

In the 1730s and 1740s many rural folk rejected the enlightened and rational religion that came from the cosmopolitan pulpits and port cities of British North America. Instead, they were attracted to the evangelical religious movement that became known as the Great Awakening. The English Methodist George Whitefield and other itinerant ministers ignited this popular movement with their speaking tours of the colonies. In this account farmer Nathan Cole described hearing the news of Whitefield’s approach to his Connecticut town, as fields emptied and the populace converged: “I saw no man at work in his field, but all seemed to be gone. ” Like many others during the Great Awakening, Cole achieved an eventual conversion by focusing not on intellectual issues but on emotional experience. Cole took away an egalitarian message about the spiritual equality of all before God, a message that confronted established authorities.

Week 7 Video Lecture

Study Questions for this section:

What were the three different colonial political structures and how did they function?

How did the elected assemblies differ from Parliament in England?

How did changes in marriage, print and religion affect the colonists ideas about their obligations to authority?

Study Questions:

How do these descriptions of the “Middle Passage” from slave narratives confirm your understanding of the previous readings of this week?

How do these conditions lead to rebellion?

Study Questions:

What specific criticisms does Winthrop have of Hutchinson?

What seems to doom Hutchinson to banishment in this court record?

How does Bacon's Declaration reflect both his distrust of Berkeley's rule and his desire to wage war against Native Americans? Why does Bacon want to wage this war?

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This is a difficult reading. Try your best.

Study Questions:

According to Locke, why is “man” willing to give up the natural condition of freedom?

Why does “man” enter into a condition of society and law?

Weeks 1-2 Video Lecture:

Week 3 Video Lecture: Collision of Cultures

What is the Columbian Exchange and what is transferred between Europe and the Americas in this exchange?

Study questions:

How does internal tension in the Native American empires of the Americas aid Spanish attempts to create their empire?

What racial system is established by the Spanish in the New World? Why is it established and how does it operate?

Study questions for this section:

What roles do sugar and slavery play in the expansion of European empires?

What diseases devastate Native American peoples?

Study Questions for this section:

What were the three major crops developed in the Americas? What impact did they have?

What were the major differences between Native American and European peoples?

Study Question:

What role does religious division play in the development of new colonies? Use specific examples.

Study Question:

How do the colonies attempt to remain independent from the religious and political turmoil in England during the 1600s?

Study Question:

How do the colonies attempt to remain independent from the religious and political turmoil in England during the 1600s?

Study Questions:

What were Purtian beliefs?

How did the settlement of New England differ from the settlement of Jamestown and Virginia?

Study Questions:

How did Powhatan initially receive the colonists? Why?

How does tobacco change the colony?

How does the notion of race begin to change in the colony?

Study Questions:

How did Powhatan initially receive the colonists? Why?

How does tobacco change the colony?

How does the notion of race begin to change in the colony?

Study Question:

What were the reasons that England entered in the competition for empire in the Americas?

Before reading this text watch and annotate the following video lecture for this week. Make sure you can answer the study questions that will appear within the video:

The Growth of British North America video lecture:

Study Question:

What role did slavery play in Dutch attempts to establish empire?

Study Question:

What was the "Black Legend" and how did other European powers use it to justify their attempts to compete with Spain for empire in the Americas?

More info on the Treaty of Tordesillas

Study question

In what ways did the French presence in North America differ from the Spanish?

This Seneca story was recorded by Jeremiah Curtin, a white man fluent in the Seneca language. In 1883, 1886, and 1887, Curtin spent many hours talking with Seneca men and women on the Cattaraugus reservation in New York state. The largest of the five tribes of the Iroquois confederacy, the Seneca had inhabited much of central New York in the sixteenth century, but by the mid-seventeenth century they had moved west to Lake Erie and south into Pennsylvania. Curtin recorded this tale in the Seneca language, and it was subsequently translated into English by I. W. B. Hewitt. Source: Jeremiah Curtin and I. W. B. Hewitt, “Seneca Fiction, Legends and Myths, Part 1,” Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology 32 (1910–11 [1918])

I would like you to read it as an origin story. That is, think about it as it explains the creation of humanity.

What is the relationship between humanity and nature? What structure do you think society will take based on this origin story? These are questions I want you to think about and seek the answers to while you do this reading

This is the first chapter of Genesis from the King James version of the Bible. While I realize that this is clearly a religious text, I would like you to read it as an origin story. That is, think about it as it explains the creation of humanity.

What is the relationship between humanity and nature? What structure do you think society will take based on this origin story? Who authorizes this text? Why? These are questions I want you to think about and seek the answers to while you do this reading

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