Week 2: How did English goals for the conquest and colonization of Ireland change after 1565?
Week 3: What was the “color line” and why was it drawn?
Week 4: Why did the French cultivate such positive relations with Indians?
Week 5: How did the Spanish succeed in fulfilling their goals of conquest and colonization in the Caribbean and California? How did they fail?
Week 6: In what ways was the American Revolution radical? In what ways was it essentially conservative?
Week 7: What role did class conflict play in the American Revolution?
Week 8: What were the “boundaries” and why and how were they “permeable”?
Week 9: How did Indian nations resist removal?
Week 10: How did Americans resist the Mexican war?
Week 11: How did African Americans, slave and free, resist slavery?
Week 12: Flow did working class people resist economic inequality in the early nineteenth century?
Week 13: How did African Americans shape the goals of Reconstruction?
All essays must be:
• Typed
• Double-spaced
• 12 point, Times New Roman font
• I” margins
• Proofread for grammar and spelling
• 2 pages each
• Submitted to the appropriate D2L dropbox
