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COURSE SYLLABUS

HIS 201 U.S. History I

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8. COURSE OUTLINE
  1.0 Native North America
    1.1 Natives of  Central and South America
    1.2 Natives of North America
    1.3 European Contacts before Columbus
  2.0 Colonial North America:  1763-1790
    2.1 Conditions in Europe Augmenting Discovery and Colonization
    2.2 Spanish Colonies
    2.3 French Colonies
    2.4 Other Colonies
    2.5 Early English Colonies
  3.0 North America at 1750
    3.1 Establishment of the Separate Colonies
    3.2 Life in the Separate Colonies
    3.3 European Conflicts and The Four Colonial Wars
  4.0 The American Revolution:  1763 – 1790
    4.1 The Crisis Period:  1763 - 1775
    4.2 A War for Independence
    4.3 Confederation and Constitution
  5.0 The New Republic:  1790 - 1848
    5.1 Life in the New Nation
    5.2 Involvement with Europe:  1787 - 1823
    5.3 Political Democracy
    5.4 Louisiana Purchase
    5.5 Texas and the War with Mexico
    5.6 Internal Improvements and Reform Movements
  6.0 Antebellum North America:  1820 - 1860
    6.1 Slavery in the Old South
    6.2 The Slavery Controversy and New Territories
    6.3 Political Upheaval
  7.0 Sectionalism and the American Civil War:  1854 - 1865
    7.1 Secession
    7.2 Civil War
    7.3 National Reconstruction
    7.4 Life after Slavery
    7.5 Reconstruction in the States