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Master I

Literature and Civilization


American Civilization
Course Content

Unit I: Pre-Columbian America: An Overview


Unit II: The International Scene at the Age of Discovery
1. Portugal and Spain
2. France and England
3. Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Unit III: First Contact and Conquest


1. The Outcome of the Discovery: The Columbian Exchange
2. Spain and Portugal in the New World: The Conquistadores
3. The French and the Dutch, a Different Model of Colonial Control in the New World

Unit IV: Establishment of the English Colonies

PART I: The Process of English Colonization

1. The English Background (James I, Charles I, the English Civil War and the Republic)
2. The "First" Lost Colony: Roanoke
3. The Chesapeake Colonies
a) Jamestown, Virginia
b) Maryland
4. New England Colonies
a. Plymouth
b. Massachusetts
c. Other New England Colonies: Connecticut, New Haven, Rhode Island, Main and New Hampshire
d. The New England Confederation
e. Troubles in New England: the Pequot War, the Dominion, witchcraft and trials
5. The Middle and Southern Colonies
a. The English Background (Charles II, James II, and the Glorious Revolution)
b. Prominent Middle Colonies: New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
c. Prominent Southern Colonies: The Carolinas and Georgia
6. The Colonies: Characteristics, similarities and differences.

PART II: Colonial Life


a. Cultural and Religious Life (Education, the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening)
b. Colonial Government

Unit V: Unrest, Revolution and Independence


1. The French and Indian War
2. A New Colonial System: Taxes, Acts, and Revolts
3. The Revolution: The Continental Congress, Declaration of Independence, and Aftermath

Unit VI: Forming the Nation


1. Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
a. State Governments
b. The Articles of Confederation: Circumstances and Weaknesses
2. Creating the Constitution
a. Constitutional Convention
b. Debate and Compromise
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c. Ratification: Federalists Vs Anti-Federalists and the Bill of Rights

3. The Federalist Era


a. Washington's Presidency
b. The Federalists and the Republicans (Hamilton Vs Jefferson)
c. American Foreign Policy: A Weak beginning (Citizen Genet & Jay's Treaty)
d. Adams, Jefferson and the End of the Federalist Era
i. Adams and the XYZ Affair
ii. The Alien and Sedition Acts
iii. 1800 Election and the Jefferson's Years (Jeffersonian Values, Louisiana Purchase, and
Foreign Pressures)
iv. Madison and the War of 1812

Unit VII: Expansion and Regional Differences


1. The Era of Good Feelings
a. Unifying the Nation
b. Extending Slavery
c. The Monroe's Doctrine
d. Factional Politics: Parties and Divisions
2. Jacksonian America
a. Jacksonian Democracy
b. Nullification Crisis
c. The National Bank Crisis
d. The Rise of the Whigs, Democrats and Nativism
e. Reforms and Westward Expansion

Unit VIII: Pre-Civil War America


1. Social Differences
2. A Rich Land (Lands of Promises)
3. Slavery and the Rise of Sectional Conflicts
4. Abolitionist Movement
5. The Texas Revolution and the Mexican-American War
6. The Compromise of 1850
7. North and South drift apart:
a. Northern and Southern Perspectives
b. Dred Scott Case
c. The Lincoln / Douglas Debate
d. The Election of 1860

Unit IX: Civil War and Reconstruction


1. Secession and Civil War
2. Military Conflicts and Wartime Politics
3. The End of War and the Road to Reconstruction
4. Radical Reconstruction
5. The End of Reconstruction

BASIC READINGS

 An Outline of U.S History (A publication of the U.S Department of State)


 History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877
 The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Alan Brinkley, Eighth Edition
 A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present, By Howard Zinn

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