How did religion affect reform movements, and what was the effect of these movements on religion?
Category: American History
women’s movement of the nineteenth century
What were the aims of the women’s movement of the nineteenth century? How
successful were women in achieving these goals?
arguments and strategies used by the abolitionists to struggle to end slavery
What arguments and strategies did the abolitionists use in their struggle to end
slavery? Who opposed them and why?
Romanticism
What is “romanticism” and how was it expressed in American literature and art?
Native America
How would you describe the initial contacts between the Spaniards and the Native Americans? How did each group view the others and how did that shape their initial cross-cultural encounters?
What happened to Cabez de Vaca? How did the Native Americans treat him? What key skills did he learn during his captivity?
What happened that dramatically changed the plight of Cabeza de Vaca and the other surviving Spanish? How did the Native Americans treat Cabeza de Vaca after he became a healer?
Who was using whom in the new relationship between Cabeza de Vaca the healer and the Native Americans
Colonial America war of 1750s
How did the Seven Years’ War change the balance of power in North America and
throughout the world?
Who emigrated to North America in the seventeenth century
Who emigrated to North America in the seventeenth century, and why did they come?
slavery
How did the lives of African slaves change over the course of the first century of slavery?
intellectual culture of colonial America
What was the intellectual culture of colonial America, as expressed in literature, philosophy, science, education, and law?
English colonies diverge from life in England
How and why did life in the English colonies diverge from life in England?
