美国历史outline.docx

U.S. History Topic Outline1. Pre-Columbian SocietiesEarly inhabitants of the AmericasAmerican Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi ValleyAmerican Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690First European contacts with Native AmericansSpains empire in North AmericaFrench colonization of CanadaEnglish settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the SouthFrom servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake regionReligious diversity in the American coloniesResistance to colonial authority: Bacons Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt3. Colonial North America, 1690-1754Population growth and immigrationTransatlantic trade and the growth of seaportsThe eighteenth-century back countryGrowth of plantation economies and slave societiesThe Enlightenment and the Great AwakeningColonial governments and imperial policy in British North America4. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754-1789The French and Indian WarThe Imperial Crisis and resistance to BritainThe War for IndependenceState constitutions and the Articles of ConfederationThe federal Constitution5. The Early Republic, 1789-1815Washington, Hamilton, and shaping of the national governmentEmergence of political parties: Federalists and RepublicansRepublican Motherhood and education for womenBeginnings of the Second Great AwakeningSignificance of Jeffersons presidencyExpansion into the trans-Appalachian West; American Indian resistanceGrowth of slavery and free Black communitiesThe War of 1812 and its consequences6. Transformation of the Economy and Society in Antebellum AmericaThe transportation revolution and creation of a national market economyBeginnings of industrialization and changes in social and class structuresImmigration and nativist reactionPlanters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton South7. The Transformation of Politics in Antebellum AmericaEmergence of the second party sy