STUDY & BUILD YOUR RESPONSE
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Each week connects an aim with a reading or class document. Bring your notes and evidence.
Course ideas and learning methods
What and how are we going to learn?
Open study guide →Writing a strong paragraph
How do we write a good paragraph?
Open study guide →Myths, narratives, and identity
How do myths work and what is mine?
Open study guide →Ireland as a blueprint for colonization
How did England's conquest of Ireland become a political, economic, and racial blueprint for colonizing North America?
Open study guide →From civilizing missions to extermination
How did the Virginia and New England colonies transform from missions to "civilize" Indians into campaigns to "root out" and exterminate them?
Open study guide →Caliban, Prospero, and colonialism
How does Takaki use Shakespeare's Caliban and Prospero as a metaphor for colonialism?
Open study guide →Four questions and the idea of the savage
4 Question Method How did the English use the idea of the “savage” to take other people’s land, first in Ireland and then in America?
Open study guide →Economics and ideology in the colonies
How did economic and ideological forces contribute to the origins of the Virginia and New England colonies?
Open study guide →Indentured servitude and slavery
How were indentured servants similar to and different from slaves, and how did that status change over time in colonial Virginia?
Open study guide →Self-interest and alliances in Bacon’s Rebellion
How did economic self-interest shape the alliance choices of elites, small farmers, and slaves during Bacon's Rebellion?
Open study guide →Causes and consequences of Bacon’s Rebellion
What were the causes (factors) and effects (consequences) of Bacon's Rebellion?
Open study guide →Economics and ideology in American Progress
How does John Gast depict the relationship between economics and ideology in his 1872 painting American Progress?
Open study guide →Jackson and Indian removal
What were Andrew Jackson's motivations for ratifying the Indian Removal Act?
Open study guide →Geography and American history, 1607–1836
How did geography impact American history 1607-1836?
Open study guide →Who invented race and what did it buy them?
Who invented race in America and what did it buy them?
Open study guide →Semester 1 synthesis and final exams
Who invented race in America and what did it buy them?
Open study guide →Slavery, the economy, and its beneficiaries
What role did slavery play in the American economy and who, specifically, did it benefit?
Open study guide →The ideological enforcement of slavery
In what sense was slavery ideologically enforced?
Open study guide →Irish identity, economics, and racial hierarchy
How were Irish immigrants both punished and privileged by the U.S. racial hierarchy, and what role did economics play in shaping Irish identity?
Open study guide →War with Mexico, dispossession, and resistance
How were slavery, China, and Manifest Destiny major factors governing America's decision to go to war against Mexico? How did the United States use war, law, and economic power to transform Mexicans from landowners into laborers—and how did Mexicans resist?
Open study guide →Continue land, labor, and resistance
How did the United States use war, law, and economic power to transform Mexicans from landowners into laborers—and how did Mexicans resist?
Open study guide →Chinese labor and legal exclusion
Why were Chinese workers essential to building America’s economy but then legally banned from becoming American?
Open study guide →Compare Irish, Mexican, and Chinese migration
How did push and pull factors shape the migration stories of Irish, Mexican, and Chinese immigrants?
Open study guide →Native dispossession, ideology, and policy
From the 1860s to the 1930s, how did the United States use ideology and policy to dispossess Native Americans of their land while claiming to “civilize” them?
Open study guide →Continue the two-week dispossession aim
From the 1860s to the 1930s, how did the United States use ideology and policy to dispossess Native Americans of their land while claiming to “civilize” them?
Open study guide →Japanese American collective organizing
How did Japanese Americans use collective organizing to build power, and how did their strategies mirror those of Mexican Americans?
Open study guide →Russian Jewish organizing and comparison
How did Russian Jewish immigrants use collective organizing to build power in America, and how did their experience mirror that of Japanese Americans?
Open study guide →Demanding labor while rejecting people
Why did America keep demanding people’s labor while rejecting the people themselves?
Open study guide →ACT reading practice
ACT PREP
Open study guide →ACT practice and the Great Migration opening
ACT PREP
Open study guide →Compare Great Migration push and pull factors
How were the push and pull factors driving the Great Migration similar and different to the migrations of other groups in American history?
Open study guide →Housing, hiring, and racial hierarchy in Chicago
How did housing segregation, factory hiring, and divide-and-control unionism work together to rebuild racial hierarchy in Chicago, 1910–1919?
Open study guide →Japanese American incarceration during WWII
What can we learn from America's decision to intern Japanese Americans in WW2?
Open study guide →Wartime economic opportunity and its limits
How did economic forces change opportunities for non-white people in America during WW2?
Open study guide →World War II and the Civil Rights Movement
In what sense was WW2 a cause of the Civil Rights Movement?
Open study guide →Racial injustice and economic injustice
Why did Dr. King call "racial injustice" and "economic injustice" inseparable twins?
Open study guide →How excluded people compelled change
How did the people America excluded compel America to change?
Open study guide →Semester 2 final exams and course close
Semester 2 final exams and the end of the course. No new aim is listed.
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