By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Discuss the similarities and differences in the lives of slaves and free blacks
Describe the independent culture and customs that slaves developed

Political Corruption in Postbellum America
Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Explain the labor-intensive processes of cotton production
Describe the importance of cotton to the Atlantic and American antebellum economy

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Explain the expansionist goals of advocates of slavery
Describe the filibuster expeditions undertaken during the antebellum era

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Assess the distribution of wealth in the antebellum South
Describe the southern culture of honor
Identify the main proslavery arguments in the years prior to the Civil War

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Compare and contrast the development and character of the French and Dutch colonies in North America
Discuss the economies of the French and Dutch colonies in North America

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Identify the first English settlements in America
Describe the differences between the Chesapeake Bay colonies and the New England colonies
Compare and contrast the wars between native inhabitants and English colonists in both the Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies
Explain the role of Bacon’s Rebellion in the rise of chattel slavery in Virginia

Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
English Settlements in America
The Impact of Colonization

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Identify the main Spanish American colonial settlements of the 1500s and 1600s
Discuss economic, political, and demographic similarities and differences between the Spanish colonies

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Explain the reasons for the rise of slavery in the American colonies
Describe changes to Indian life, including warfare and hunting
Contrast European and Indian views on property
Assess the impact of European settlement on the environment

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Compare and contrast monarchy and republican government
Describe the tenets of republicanism

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Explain the development of state constitutions
Describe the features of the Articles of Confederation
Analyze the causes and consequences of Shays’ Rebellion

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Describe the status of women in the new republic
Describe the status of nonwhites in the new republic

Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
How Much Revolutionary Change?
Debating Democracy
The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Identify the central issues of the 1787 Constitutional Convention and their solutions
Describe the conflicts over the ratification of the federal constitution

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Identify regions where the English, French, and Dutch explored and established settlements
Describe the differences among the early colonies
Explain the role of the American colonies in European nations’ struggles for domination