Topics
for Teaching American History: The Colonial World
Discussion of Activities
and Participants
Discussion of State
Social Studies Standards
Exploration of Comparative History
Analysis of Colonialism
- Theory
- Practice: Comparison
of English and Iberian Colonial Systems
- Comparative
Attitudes toward Empire and theories thereof
- Symbols of
Conquest
- Justification
for Conquest
- Relationship
to indigenous population
- Response of
Indigenous peoples
Definition of Atlantic
to include South Atlantic
- New Area of Study:
Rationale
- Circulation of
People, Goods and Ideas
Exploration of Specific
Points of Comparison
- Fundamental Attitudes
toward self and community
- Revolutions (of
the Atlantic variety), Slavery, Race and Constitutitionalism
- Impact in Latin
America