Unit 1 - Colonies through New Nation (Key concepts 1-3)
Below are videos that summarize the time period 1607-1800. The top videos provide a broad summary of the time period, while the subsequent videos cover more specific topics within the time period.
Study Guide for Unit 1 Test
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The top two videos are summary videos of the two major time periods as defined by the College Board (i.e. the folks who write the AP test). They are a little long, but very valuable because they are designed to be used by PreAP/AP students because the narrator uses the language and focuses on the concepts outlined by the College Board. The remaining videos cover more specific content. Watch as many (or as little) as you feel you need to review.
Period 2 - 1607-1654Note: In the video above, the information relevant to our class begins at the 6:40 mark.
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Period 3 - 1754-1800 |
Early Colonies/Settlement Era
Europeans and American Indians maneuvered and fought for dominance, control, and security in North America, and distinctive colonial and native societies emerged.
- Key Concept 2.1: Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North American environments that different empires confronted led Europeans to develop diverse patterns of colonization.
- Key Concept 2.2: European colonization efforts in North America stimulated intercultural contact and intensified conflict between the various groups of colonizers and native peoples.
- Key Concept 2.3: The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the “Atlantic World” had a profound impact on the development of colonial societies in North America.
Jamestown Colony - a thorough review.
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These videos serves as a good bridge from the Jamestown Colony to the Plymouth/Massachusetts Bay because it discusses both. They are also pretty funny and dripping with sarcasm but also very useful because it discusses many of the topics discussed in class. Be sure to watch the video to the left first.
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The video on the left focuses on the Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact, while the video on the right focuses on the Massachusetts Bay Colony (that was formed later, and absorbed the Plymouth Colony). Some of the information was reviewed in the two videos directly above, but these videos are not as fast paced.
The short video to the right attempts to answer: "What were the origins of English slavery?"
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Revolutionary War Era
British imperial attempts to reassert control over its colonies and the colonial reaction to these attempts produced a new American republic, along with struggles over the new nation’s social, political, and economic identity.
- Key Concept 3.1: Britain’s victory over France in the imperial struggle for North America led to new conflicts among the British government, the North American colonists, and American Indians, culminating in the creation of a new nation, the United States.
- Key Concept 3.2: In the late 18th century, new experiments with democratic ideas and republican forms of government, as well as other new religious, economic, and cultural ideas, challenged traditional imperial systems across the Atlantic World.
- Key Concept 3.3: Migration within North America, cooperative interaction, and competition for resources raised questions about boundaries and policies, intensified conflicts among peoples and nations, and led to contests over the creation of a multiethnic, multiracial national identity.
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These videos acts as a very good bridge to the events leading up to the Revolutionary War because it focuses on the Seven Years War...which was just that. The video on the right also talks about the notions of CLASSICAL REPUBLICANISM and CLASSICAL LIBERALISM.
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In this SoundCloud
John Fea of Messiah College explains the workings of mercantilism. |
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The two videos on either side focus on the events after the Seven Years War and leading up to the Revolutionary War. (well...the one on the left begins with some stuff similar to the video right above it, but ends by pointing it's focus on post-war). Both videos complement each other.
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The video to the right focuses on the events of the American Revolution, but perhaps more importantly, also spends much of the video focusing on the "winners and losers" of the war, and the notion of Republican Motherhood. It also discusses the contradiction between the revolutionary ideas and the extent to which the newly formed United States did not live up to them (but still emphasizes the radicalism and importance and legacy of the ideas themselves).
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Following suit, the video to the left focuses on Thomas Paine's Common Sense. An excerpt from this document is on your test.
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The video above left focuses solely on the Articles of Confederation, while the video above right focuses on the the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.
New Nation - George Washington through Thomas Jefferson
George Washington Administration
(with special focus on conflict with France)
(with special focus on conflict with France)
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The videos to the left and right go into depth about the rise of the 1st Party System (Federalists versus Democrat-Republicans). It delves deeper into the topic than any above videos.
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President #2 -
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President #3 -
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The War of 1812 and the Hartford Convention |
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The Era of Good Feelings (1815-1824)
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Missouri Compromise, Tallmadge Amendment,
and the Era of Good Feelings |
Monroe Doctrine
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Jacksonian Era
The new republic struggled to define and extend democratic ideals in the face of rapid economic, territorial, and demographic changes.
- Key Concept 4.1: The United States developed the world’s first modern mass democracy and celebrated a new national culture, while Americans sought to define the nation’s democratic ideals and to reform its institutions to match them.
- Key Concept 4.2: Developments in technology, agriculture, and commerce precipitated profound changes in U.S. settlement patterns, regional identities, gender and family relations, political power, and distribution of consumer goods.
- Key Concept 4.3: U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its national borders, and isolating itself from European conflicts shaped the nation’s foreign policy and spurred government and private initiatives.
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Age of Jackson
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Nullification Crisis, South Carolina Exposition and Protest, and the issue of union versus state strength during this era
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In this SoundCloud historian Michael F. Holt explains the rise and fall of the American Whig Party.
In the above SoundCloud historian Michael Holt talks about the high rate (80.2% in 1840) of political participation in the mid-19th century.