To Begin the World Over Again

Getting Started
US1 – Getting Started Guide
Unit 1: Before Columbus
1.0 – Before Columbus: Unit Preview
1.1 – Pre-Columbian Central America
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
What happened in Central America before Aztec domination?
Who were the Aztecs?
What are the legacies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican peoples?
1.1 Summary & Structure Terms
1.1 Quiz
1.2 – Pre-Columbian South America
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
How old is civilization in South America?
Who were the Inca?
What are the legacies of pre-Columbian South American peoples?
1.2 Summary & Structure Terms
1.2 Quiz
1.3 – Pre-Columbian North America
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
How long have people lived in North America?
What was life like in the Americas after the last ice age ended?
Who were the Anasazi (or Ancestral Puebloans)?
Were pre-Columbian North American peoples all one?
1.3 Summary & Structure Terms
1.3 Quiz
1.4 – Document Lesson: Aztec Human Sacrifice
Unit 2: The Explorers
2.0 – The Explorers: Unit Preview
2.1 – Pre-Columbian Explorers
3 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did Italian merchants come to control European trade with Asia?
How did the Portuguese end up in Asia?
2.1 Summary & Structure Terms
2.1 Quiz
2.2 – Europe in 1491
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
Why did political centralization occur in late medieval Europe?
What did England look like in 1491?
What did France look like by 1491?
What was the position of Spain in 1491?
2.2 Summary & Structure Terms
2.2 Quiz
2.3 – Christopher Columbus
7 Topics | 1 Quiz
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Did the Vikings influence Christopher Columbus?
How did Columbus get Spain’s backing for his expedition?
Was Columbus’s idea really that far-fetched?
How did Columbus’s first voyage turn out?
What happened to Columbus?
2.3 Summary & Structure Terms
2.3 Quiz
2.4 – Age of Exploration
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the English get in on the exploration game?
How did Portugal come to control an American empire?
How did Spain come to control an American empire?
Did the French get in on the exploration game?
2.4 Summary & Structure Terms
2.4 Quiz
2.5 – The Colonial Impulse
3 Topics | 1 Quiz
Did the Italian Renaissance contribute to the “discovery” of America?
What role did the Protestant Reformation play in the colonization of the Americas?
2.5 Summary & Structure Terms
2.5 Quiz
2.6 – Document Lesson: Conflicting Accounts of Columbus’s Second Voyage
Unit 3: The Spanish Empire
3.0 – The Spanish Empire: Unit Preview
3.1 – Spanish Empire: Mexico
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
What happened when the Spanish took on the Aztec Empire?
How did the Spanish introduction of the horse impact native peoples?
How did the Spanish consolidate their rule in Mexico after 1521?
3.1 Summary & Structure Terms
3.1 Quiz
3.2 – Spanish Empire: Peru
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did Pizarro take down the mighty Inca Empire?
What happened after the fall of the Inca Empire?
Where did Spain’s vast haul of American silver come from?
How did the Spanish manage to take down sophisticated American empires with a relative handful of men?
3.2 Summary & Structure Terms
3.2 Quiz
3.3 – Spanish Empire: The Southwest
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the Spanish establish a foothold in the American Southwest?
What was the Pueblo Revolt?
What about California and the Pacific?
3.3 Summary & Structure Terms
3.3 Quiz
3.4 – Spanish Empire: Florida
7 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did Florida end up Spanish (and not French)?
Why did the Spanish hold on to burdensome Florida?
Did the Franciscans and Florida’s natives get along?
So why did Spain ultimately invest in Florida (and what happened to the Timucua?)?
How did Florida fit into the larger Spanish Empire?
Why didn’t Spain go on to conquer the rest of America?
3.4 Summary & Structure Terms
3.4 Quiz
3.5 – Document Lesson: A European Battle in America
Unit 4: The French and the English
4.0 – The French and the English: Unit Preview
4.1 – French Empire: Canada
7 Topics | 1 Quiz
Why didn’t France colonize Canada after Cartier’s expeditions?
What was French Acadia?
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
How did the Counter-Reformation impact French settlement of Canada?
Why was the French relationship with their American Indian neighbors generally better than that of other Europeans?
Did the Iroquois continue to threaten New France?
4.1 Summary & Structure Terms
4.1 Quiz
4.2 – French Empire: Louisiana
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the French stumble upon the Mississippi?
How did the French end up with a Gulf of Mexico foothold?
How was New Orleans established?
4.2 Summary & Structure Terms
4.2 Quiz
4.3 – Jamestown
10 Topics | 1 Quiz
When did the English once more take an interest in America?
What do English colonies in Ireland have to do with America?
Who was John Hawkins? Francis Drake?
How did initial English colonization efforts go?
What was the Virginia Company?
Who was Powhatan?
How did Jamestown survive?
What’s significant about the year 1619?
What happened to the Powhatan Confederacy?
4.3 Summary & Structure Terms
4.3 Quiz
4.4 – Puritans and Separatists
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
What’s the difference between a Puritan and a Separatist?
Who were the Pilgrims (and what was the Mayflower Compact?)?
What characterized the founding of Plymouth Colony?
How did the Pilgrims get along with the area’s native inhabitants?
4.4 Summary & Structure Terms
4.4 Quiz
4.5 – Document Lesson: Thanksgiving and Socialism?
Unit 5: The North and the South
5.0 – The North and the South: Unit Preview
5.1 – Southern Colonies
8 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did Virginia end up as a royal colony?
What did 17th-century Virginia society look like?
What characterized the founding of Maryland?
What was the English Civil War (and what does it have to do with the Chesapeake?)?
What is mercantilism?
How did mercantilism come to dominate maritime Europe?
What were the Navigation Acts?
5.1 Summary & Structure Terms
5.1 Quiz
5.2 – Southern Colonies (Continued)
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
What characterized the colonization of the Carolinas?
What about Georgia?
5.2 Summary & Structure Terms
5.2 Quiz
5.3 – New England Colonies
6 Topics
What was the “Great Migration”?
What was life like in early New England?
Who was Roger Williams?
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
What was the Pequot War?
5.3 Summary & Structure Terms
5.4 – New England Colonies (Continued)
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the English Civil War impact New England?
Why were things so tense in early-1670s New England?
What was King Philip’s War?
5.4 Summary & Structure Terms
5.3-5.4 Quiz
5.5 – Document Lesson: Why do Historical Interpretations Change?
Unit 6: Mid-Atlantic Colonists & Natives
6.0 – The Mid-Atlantic; Colonists & Natives: Unit Preview
6.1 – Mid-Atlantic Colonies
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
Did the Dutch try to colonize America?
What was New Netherland?
Did the Swedes try to colonize America?
What were the Dutch-Indian Wars?
6.1 Summary & Structure Terms
6.1 Quiz
6.2 – Mid-Atlantic Colonies (Continued)
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the English Civil War and the Restoration impact the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
Who were the Quakers?
Who was William Penn?
6.2 Summary & Structure Terms
6.2 Quiz
6.3 – The Five Nations
6 Topics | 1 Quiz
Who were the Iroquois?
How did the colonial European presence help fuel native wars?
What was the Covenant Chain of Peace?
Who were the Tuscarora people (and how did they end up in New York?)?
What was the Yamasee War?
6.3 Summary & Structure Terms
6.3 Quiz
6.4 – Glorious Revolution
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
What was the Dominion of New England?
What was the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
How did the Glorious Revolution impact the American colonies?
6.4 Summary & Structure Terms
6.4 Quiz
6.5 – Document Lesson: Enslavement of Native Americans
Unit 7: The Colonial Experience
7.0 – The Colonial Experience: Unit Preview
7.1 – Government in Colonial America
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
Did the Crown play a direct role in governing the colonies?
What was the role of the governor and his council in colonial government?
How did colonial assemblies operate?
What was the English Common Law?
7.1 Summary & Structure Terms
7.1 Quiz
7.2 – Slavery
6 Topics | 1 Quiz
Where did slavery originate?
How did African chattel slavery make its way to British North America?
What accounts for the transition from native and European slaves and indentured servants to black African slaves?
What characterized the African experience of becoming a slave?
How did the presence of African slaves transform the colonies?
7.2 Summary & Structure Terms
7.2 Quiz
7.3 – Mercantilism
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the colonial population economically thrive even as it increased dramatically?
Did mid-century British America undergo a “consumer revolution”?
What were the White Pines Acts?
How else did the mother country attempt to economically control its colonies?
7.3 Summary & Structure Terms
7.3 Quiz
7.4 – First Great Awakening
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
What was the First Great Awakening?
Who were George Whitefield and John Wesley?
What are the legacies of the First Great Awakening?
7.4 Summary & Structure Terms
7.4 Quiz
7.5 – Document Lesson: Chattel Slavery
Unit 8: European Rivalries
8.0 – European Rivalries: Unit Preview
8.1 – European Rivalries
6 Topics | 1 Quiz
What was King William’s War?
What was Queen Anne’s War?
What was the War of Jenkins’ Ear?
What was the War of Austrian Succession?
What was the French and Indian War?
8.1 Summary & Structure Terms
8.1 Quiz
8.2 – The Enlightenment
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
Who was John Locke?
What was the Enlightenment?
What’s the connection between the Enlightenment and American history?
8.2 Summary & Structure Terms
8.2 Quiz
8.3 – Benjamin Franklin
4 Topics | 1 Quiz
Who was Benjamin Franklin?
Was Benjamin Franklin really an important scientist?
What was Benjamin Franklin doing during the French and Indian War?
8.3 Summary & Structure Terms
8.3 Quiz
8.4 – Buildup to Revolution
7 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the French and Indian War contribute to the American Revolution?
What was “republicanism”?
Why did the British leave ten thousand troops in North America?
What was the Sugar Act?
What was the Stamp Act?
What were the Townshend Acts?
8.4 Summary & Structure Terms
8.4 Quiz
8.5 – Buildup to Revolution (Continued)
6 Topics | 1 Quiz
What was the Boston Massacre?
What was the Battle of Golden Hill?
What was the Gaspee Affair?
What was the function of the committees of correspondence?
What was the Boston Tea Party?
8.5 Summary & Structure Terms
8.5 Quiz
8.6 – Document Lesson: What is History?
Unit 9: Revolution
9.0 – Revolution: Unit Preview
9.1 – Declarations of Independence
6 Topics | 1 Quiz
What were the Intolerable Acts?
What was the First Continental Congress?
What happened at Lexington and Concord?
What was the Second Continental Congress?
Were there multiple declarations of independence?
9.1 Summary & Structure Terms
9.1 Quiz
9.2 – The Revolutionary War: North
7 Topics | 1 Quiz
Who won the Siege of Boston?
What was the New York and New Jersey Campaign?
What happened at Valley Forge?
What happened at Saratoga?
What characterized the frontier theater of the war?
Where did the phrase “not worth a continental” come from?
9.2 Summary & Structure Terms
9.2 Quiz
9.3 – The Revolutionary War: South
7 Topics | 1 Quiz
How did the Carolinas fare early on in the war?
How did the British end up taking Savannah?
How did the revolutionaries lose Charleston—and lose at Camden?
What was the Battle of Kings Mountain?
What was the Battle of the Cowpens?
What happened at Yorktown?
9.3 Summary & Structure Terms
9.3 Quiz
9.4(A) – What Were They Fighting For?
1 Topic
What were they fighting for?
9.4(B) – What Were They Fighting For?
3 Topics | 1 Quiz
What were they fighting for?
What was the British legacy to American history?
9.4 Summary & Structure Terms
9.4 Quiz
9.5 – Document Lesson: What Is History Good For?
Unit 10: Constitutions
10.0 – Constitutions: Unit Preview
10.1 – The Articles of Confederation
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
Did the states create new constitutions during the Revolutionary War?
What was the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
What were the Articles of Confederation?
What characterized American culture during the post-war Articles period?
10.1 Summary & Structure Terms
10.1 Quiz
10.2 – The Northwest Ordinance
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
What of the western frontier (and beyond)?
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
What was Shays’ Rebellion?
Were the Articles of Confederation unworkable?
10.2 Summary & Structure Terms
10.2 Quiz
10.3 – What Sort of Government?
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
What led to the Constitutional Convention of 1787?
What happened at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787?
Why was there a large-state vs. small-state impasse?
What of slavery?
10.3 Summary & Structure Terms
10.3 Quiz
10.4 – The Constitution
9 Topics | 1 Quiz
Was the Constitution nationalist or federalist?
What is the preamble?
What’s in Article I?
What’s in Article II?
What’s in Article III?
What’s in Article IV?
What’s in Articles V, VI, and VII?
Was the Constitution nationalist or federalist?
10.4 Summary & Structure Terms
10.4 Quiz
10.5 – Ratification
5 Topics | 1 Quiz
What is “Ratification”?
What did the “republicans” (i.e. “antifederalists”) argue during Ratification?
How did the “federalists” seek to reassure their “antifederalist” opponents?
Was the Constitution ratified?
10.5 Summary & Structure Terms
10.5 Quiz
10.6 – Document Lesson: What Does a Good Research Question Look Like?
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Disembarkation of Christopher Columbus – Columbus strikes land on 12 October, 1492 (painting: 1891, by Ivan Aivazovsky).

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