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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update 
    
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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HST 2011 - American Revolution

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course explores the causes, progression, and consequences of the American Revolution: the conflict that destroyed the first British Empire, created the American Republic, and inspired a wave of democratic revolutions that shook the foundations of the Atlantic world.  The Revolution was a war for independence from Great Britain, an experiment in republican government, and a struggle to transform the nature of American society.  The course begins with the British Empire in the Americas in the mid-18th century and ends with the passage of the U.S. Constitution. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Think Critically or Exhibit Curiosity. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Examine the political, social, cultural, and economic causes and consequences of the Revolution
  • Describe the leading concepts and figures of the European Enlightenment and the impact on British America
  • Compare the meaning of the war for those on the margins of American society: African Americans, Native Americans, the disenfranchised poor, women of all social orders, and those who remained loyal to the crown
  • Appraise how radical, transformative, and global the Revolution became
  • Recognize government, military, political, and cultural leaders during the Revolution and the birth of the republic
  • Identify the symbols and traditions that have remained in U.S. culture through the 21st century
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • The British Empire in 1750
  • Planters and slaves
  • New England democracy
  • Seven Years’ War
  • The Stamp Act crisis
  • Taxation, occupation, and military rule
  • The Boston Tea Party
  • Concord and Lexington: The shot heard round the world
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • The Articles of Confederation
  • Washington’s strategy and the Continental Army
  • Lafayette and Jefferson in Paris
  • The British military strategy of isolation
  • The Treaty of Paris
  • A slaveholding republic
  • Republican Mothers
  • The Constitution of 1787
  • Washington’s presidency
Coordinator
Margaret Dwyer


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