HST 1013 - United States History I

• Recognize the major indigenous peoples that made contact with, and were affected by, European settlers
• Compare the competing European interests in the Western hemisphere in the 15^th through 18^th centuries, and determine the resulting impact on British settlement
• Understand how and why the demands of the British empire diverged so significantly with the expectations of its colonial subjects, and how this led to revolution
• Compare the professed Enlightenment ideals of liberty and self-government with the reality of slavery and restrictions based on income and sex
• Contrast the regional ideals of the slaveholding south with the individualized freedoms of the north
• Assess the impact of these regional differences in terms of industrialization of the north, and agricultural dominance in the south
• Recognize how westward expansion exacerbated regional divisions
• Follow the differences of agriculture, industry, and idealism and recognize its ending in civil war

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• Creating new social orders: colonial societies
• The English empire and impact of the British navy
• The influence of the enlightenment and scientific revolution
• Imperial reforms and colonial protests
• America’s war for independence
• Creating republican governments
• The New Republic
• Industrial transformation in the north
• Jacksonian democracy
• The Trail of Tears and the “Indian Wars” of indigenous extermination
• Westward expansion
• Borderland influence of the Spanish in the west and the French on the Mississippi River
• The Mexican-American war
• Cotton is king and the antebellum south
• Antebellum idealism and reform impulse
• The politically tumultuous 1850s
• The Civil War