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Student Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to analyze and synthesize American historical sources to formulate a historical thesis. Students will be able to explain relationships between causes of historical events in American and their efforts. Students will be able to describe historical actors and events in America and explain their significance and historiographical context.
Topics to expect in this class: · Distinguish aspects of early American and Western European medical practices including midwifery and the lessoning effects of witchcraft by the early 1700s along with colonial medical apprenticeships, inoculation practices, discussion of origin of disease and death, quarantine tactics, and interpretation of divine ‘harms’ by early American societies. · Identify and discuss aspects of British-American and post-Revolutionary culture and society: women and republican motherhood, war-time efforts as ‘Liberty’s Daughters’, economic, social, and political reforms of the 18 & 19C often times headed by women reform movements (i.e. compulsory education and the end to slavery); colonial and republican practices of drinking and tavern life; effects of the Enlightenment which transformed early American culture, politics, & law and justice.
· Examine
and interpret early American labor including indentured servitude
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· Demonstrate
an understanding of aspects of period technology, architecture,
inventions, and commodities connecting the British colonies, the · Appraise the spread of knowledge and ideas with advances in printing, newspaper circulation, ship building, and modes of delivery from 1580s until the late 1870s carrying news, while discussing the effects of print during time of war, famine, peace, and prosperity.
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Recognize aspects of law, justice, court systems, crime and
punishment practices before and after the Salem Witch Trials of
1692; by 1660 forward legal precedent and practices of racial
segregation until late 1870s; religion in the American colonies and
· Measure aspects intertwined of early American and republican post-revolutionary militarism: conquest, defense, imperialism, colonialism, war and conflict between Europeans and or endemic groups, war-time technology and fighting styles, debt, political divides in philosophies and perspective to revolution, invasion, to civil war and reconstruction.
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