1) First Americans - Pre-Columbian America / Aboriginal America a) Linguistics and archeology as pre-history b) Asiatic migration - Bering Land Bridge,etc.

c) Two up to three waves of migration Paleo-Indians; The Innuits; The Aleuts d) Big-Game Hunting Tradition e) Great South American Pre-Columbian : The Mayans, The Incas, The Olmecs, The Aztecs f) North American Aboriginal Cultures i) Archaic Period ii) Woodland Period iii) Mississipian cultures g) Burial Mounds h) Temple Mounds i) Ancient Pueblo - Anasazi 2) "The Encounter" (1492 -- ) a) The European origins of the conquest b) First Spanish expeditions c) Spanish Conquest d) European colonies in America 3) British attempts at settlement a) John Cabot b) Walter Raleigh c) Martin Fribisher d) others 4) First British colonies a) Context - social, economic, etc., people, etc. b) Jamestown, Virginia, J. Smith, etc. c) The Pilgrims d) Middle colonies e) New England f) Relationships with Indians 5) Colonial America a) The development of colonies i) Economic development ii) Political development b) Issues of race in the colonial period i) Indian wars ii) Issues of slavery 6) American Revolution a) Context and origins - social, economic, philosophical, etc., people, etc. i) The political and economic reality before the Revolution ii) Sugar Act iii) Tea Act iv) Stamp Act v) Quebec Act vi) Currency Act vii) Intolerable Laws viii) Boston Tea Party ix) Stamp Act Congress x) Committees of Correspondence xi) Sons of Liberty xii) First Continental Congress xiii) Second Continental Congress b) Declaration of Independence c) Articles of Confederation d) The Constitutional Convention i) Who participated? ii) Sectional interests: Large states vs. small states / free states vs. slave states iii) Virginia Plan iv) New Jersey Plan v) New York Plan vi) Connecticut Plan vii) The Great Compromise viii) The 3/5 Compromise e) The Constitution of the USA (including the Bill of Rights) 7) Federalist Era

a) G. Washington's presidency b) A. Hamilton 8) "Virginia Dynasty" - "Empire of Freedom" a) Context, people, etc. b) Two Party System c) T. Jefferson's presidency d) Louisiana Purchase e) "The Second War for Independence" - "Mr. Madison's War" f) Monroe Doctrine g) Indians - Tecumseh Confederation, etc. 9) Populism and Nationalism a) Context, people, etc b) Second American Party System c) A. Jackson's presidency d) Indian Removal Act - Trail of Tears, etc. e) Territorial expansion of the USA i) Land Ordinance (Northwest Ordinance) ii) Louisiana Purchase iii) Acquiring of Florida iv) Texas (1) Mexican War v) California vi) Territory of Oregon f) The West 10) Civil War a) Antebellum America - context of conflicts, people, etc. b) Slavery Issues in pre-war America - a discussion i) Colonial Period ii) Declaration of Independence iii) Constitution iv) Territorial growth and slavery issues v) Missouri Compromise vi) The Compromise of 1850 vii) Popular sovereignty viii) Kansas - Nebraska Act ix) Bleeding Kansas x) The Rise of the Republican Party xi) abolitionist movements (1) Immediate abolition vs gradual abolition (2) John Brown xii) Dredd Scott c) Abraham Lincoln d) Secession / Confederate States e) Border States f) Political and Military Course of the War g) Emancipation Proclamation h) 13th Amendment i) Civil War - different historical interpretations 11) Reconstruction a) Post-War America - context, people, South vs. North - the aftermath of the Civil War b) Suffrage issues c) Presidential Reconstruction i) Black Codes ii) Presidental Crisis d) Radical Recontruction i) Constitutional Amendments (1) 14th Amendment (2) 15th Amendment e) End of Reconstruction 12) America 1877 - 1917 a) African American experience i) Frederick Douglas ii) NAACP iii) Booker T. Washington iv) W.E.B. DuBois v) M. Garvey, UNIA, etc. b) Immigration - from the colonial period i) Various waves of immigration

(1) Colonial immigration (2) Early republic immigration (3) Old Immigration (4) New Immigration ii) Immigration Legislation (1) Naturalisation Acts (2) Chinese Exclusion Act (3) Gentlemen's Agreement (4) Immigration Act of 1917 (5) Emergency Quota Act (6) Immigration Act of 1924 iii) Know Nothing Party iv) Ellis Island v) etc c) Urbanization and Industrialization from the colonial period i) The developement of the city ii) Industrial revolution iii) The rise of capitalism iv) The rise of labour organisations v) Labour tensions (1) Hay Market Square Massacre, and other labour / extremism related violence d) Progressivism i) Muckraking ii) Progressivism as a political ideology iii) Theodore Roosevelt Presidency e) American Foreign Policy of the Imperialist Era i) Forms of American interventionism (1) Gunboat Diplomacy (2) Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (a) Big Stick Diplomacy (i) Panama (ii) Building of the Panama Canal (iii) Dominican Republic (iv) Cuba (b) Dollar Diplomacy (i) Honduras (ii) Nicaragua (iii) Haiti ii) Spanish American War (1) The importance of the Philippines iii) Open Door Policy towards China 13) World War I a) Context, people b) American isolationism c) Road to American Involvement i) Anti-German sentiments / anti German propaganda ii) The Unrestricted Submarine Warfare iii) The sinking of Lusitania iv) Zimmermann Note v) The American Impact on WW I d) Woodrow Wilson i) The concept of "victory without victors" ii) Plans for the League of Nations iii) 13 Point Plan iv) Versailles 14) 1920's a) Different faces of the 1920's b) Jazz Era c) Prohibition d) Gangsterism e) Radicalism - Communism, Anarchism, etc. i) Red Scare - Palmerism f) The Prosperity Era g) Interpretations 15) Great Crisis & New Deal a) Context, people b) Crash / Black Thursday - reasons c) F.D. Roosevelt d) New Deal 16) World War II

a) Context, people, etc b) War in Europe c) Pearl Harbor d) War on the Atlantic e) War on the Pacific f) Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Manhattan Project, etc. i) The significance of the atom bomb g) Interpretations h) Post-war America 17) Cold War - 1950's - 1990's a) context, people b) Truman Doctrine c) the concept of the Iron Curtain d) the Rosenberg case e) McCarthyism - Red Scare, etc. f) Korean War g) Berlin Wall h) Bay of Pigs Invasion i) Missile Crisis j) MAD doctrine k) Vietnam War l) Dtente m) Arms race n) Exploration of space - space programs as part of the arms race i) Sputnik ii) Astronauts iii) Race to the moon o) The negotiations process p) Interpretatons 18) Truman - Eisenhower Era a) context, people, etc. b) Korean War 19) Kennedy Legacy / Kennedy Assassination a) Kennedy Legacy i) Internal policy (1) Civil Rights Legacy ii) Foreign policy (1) Berlin Wall (2) Cuba (3) Missile Crisis (4) Vietnam (5) Policy towards the Soviet Union (6) Space program b) JFK assassination i) Warren Commission Report ii) Lee Harvey Oswald iii) major theories of the JFK Assassination 20) Civil Rights Movement / Black Nationalism / African American Experience i) African American Experience from the Civil war - 1940's ii) Plessy v. Ferguson iii) Separate but Equal doctrine iv) The Scottsboro Boys v) Brown v. Board of Education vi) Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott vii) Desegregating Little Rock viii) Sit-ins and Freedom Rides ix) The March on Washington x) Martin Luther King xi) Black Nationalism (1) Marcus Garvey (2) Black Panthers (3) Nation of Islam (4) Malcolm X (5) Louis Farrakhan (a) One Million Men March 21) Vietnam War a) context, people, etc b) The Domino Theory