HIST 1301

Indigenous Origin Stories; Stories explaining Native beginnings. Theme: Static vs. Dynamic Indigenous Cultures.

Subsistence Patterns; How societies get food (farming/hunting). Theme: Native Regional Diversity.

Native Regional Diversity; Different cultures based on geography. Theme: Native New World.

European Religious Reform; Protestant Reformation shifts in Europe. Theme: Forms of Christianity.

European Trade with the East; Seeking routes to Asia/spices. Theme: Growing Wealth.

Spanish Colonization Project; Focus on gold and conversion. Theme: Comparative Colonies.

Missions; Spanish religious outposts for control. Theme: Forms of Christianity.

Mestizo; Mixed Spanish and Indigenous descent. Theme: Comparative Colonies.

Indigenous Slavery; Forced Native labor in mines/farms. Theme: Settlement and Empire.

Indentured Servitude; Working for passage to colonies. Theme: Growing Wealth.

Pueblo Revolt; 1680 uprising against Spanish. Theme: Native New World.

French Colonization Project; Focus on fur trade and alliances. Theme: Comparative Colonies.

French Fur Trade; Beaver pelt economic network. Theme: Indigenous Integration.

King Philip’s War; Major conflict in New England (1675). Theme: Settlement and Empire.

Iroquois Confederacy; Powerful 5-nation Native alliance. Theme: European Rivalries.

British Colonization Project; Permanent family farming settlements. Theme: Comparative Colonies.

Enlightenment; Intellectual movement using reason. Theme: Atlantic World.

Sugar Trade; Cash crop driving Atlantic slavery. Theme: Growing Wealth.

Tobacco Trade; Crop that saved Virginia colony. Theme: Growing Wealth.

Bacon’s Rebellion; 1676 uprising of poor farmers. Theme: Frontier Ideology.

Slavery in British Colonies; Race-based chattel slavery system. Theme: Settlement and Empire.

Land Ownership; European private property vs Native shared land. Theme: New World vs. Old World.

Frontier; Borderland of conflict and trade. Theme: Frontier Ideology.

Daniel Boone; Explorer who opened westward paths. Theme: Frontier Ideology.

Seven Years’ War; Global war between Britain and France. Theme: European Rivalries.

Proclamation Line of 1763; British limit on westward expansion. Theme: Settlement and Empire.

Albany Plan of Union; Early plan to unite the colonies. Theme: British American Identity.

British American Identity; Feeling British but acting American. Theme: Nationalism.

First and Second Continental Congress; Colonial leaders coordinating resistance. Theme: Nationalism.

Dunmore’s Proclamation; British offer of freedom to enslaved soldiers. Theme: Atlantic World.

Shay’s Rebellion; Post-war farmer uprising. Theme: Nationalism.

Stamp Act; British tax on all paper goods. Theme: Settlement and Empire.