American Colonial History

These notes are in Word files. Two packets of notes are available in the Reserve Room if you are unable to access these files.

• Beginning U.S. History
• Social Structure and Environments of the Colonies
• Slavery and Religion
• The Great Awakening
• The Salem Witchcraft Trials
• The Seven Years War
• Mother-Daughter Friction
• Road to Revolution

Additional reading material

• Map of the United States
• Settlement of the Thirteen colonies
• Article: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Johathan Edwards
• Poem: Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Article: "Anne Hutchinson 'A Verye Dangerous Woman'" by Stephanie Ocko, August 1979, Early American Life, is on reserve in the Library's Reserve Room.
• Article: "The Supreme Court is Wrong about Religion" by M. Stanton Evans, December 1994, Reader's Digest, is on reserve in the Library's Reserve Room.

These notes are in Word files. Two packets of notes are available in the Reserve Room if you are unable to access these files.

• Road to Independence
• Election of 1796
• Federalists v. Republicans (chart)
• Election of 1808

• The Cotton Gin from The Eli Whitney Museum
• Eli Whitney and Interchangeable Parts Word document

• Election of 1824
• John Tyler
• Slavery in the Old South
• Opening Trade with Japan
• Bleeding Kansas
• Reconstruction

• "Dred Scott in History" by Walter Ehrlich from Westward. Vol 1 no. 1 Winter 1983. pp. 156 - 161. Located on Reserve.
• "God's Angry Man," by Stephen B. Oates from American History Illustrated, January 1986, pp. 164 - 172. Located on Reserve.

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