Week One

March 5: Introduction
March 6
: Discovery
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Tutorial: None

Week Two

March 12: Contacts: Native Americans and the Spanish
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March 13
: Contacts: Native Americans and the English
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Tutorial: Encountering the New World

Week Three

March 19: Settlement: the Southern colonies
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March 20
: Settlement: Puritan New England
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Tutorial: Cultural Contact

Week Four

March 26: Settlement: the Middle colonies
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March 27
: Unsettled: Religion and the Great Awakening
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Tutorial: Racism

Week Five

April 9: Unsettled: Economy and Community
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April 10
: The Coming of the American Revolution
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Tutorial: Revivals

Week Six

April 16: Revolution
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April 17
: Discontented Revolutionaries: Women and Blacks
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Tutorials: Getting Ready for Revolution: Benjamin Franklin

Week Seven

April 23: Constituting a Nation: Citizenship and Government
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April 24
: The New Nation
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Tutorials: Ordinary Americans Revolt: George Hewes

Week Eight

April 30: The Market Revolution
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May 1
: Urban Workers and the Market Revolution
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Tutorials: Was the Constitution a counter-revolution?

Week Nine

May 7: The World the Slaves Made
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May 8
: Jacksonian democracy: Political Responses to the Market Revolution
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Tutorials: Minstrel shows

Week Ten

May 14: In the Way of the Market: Jackson & the Indians
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May 15
: Revivals and Reform
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Tutorials: Slave Narratives and Gender

Week Eleven

May 21: The Rise of Abolitionism
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May 22
: Westward Expansion
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Tutorials: Female Moral Reformers

Week Twelve

May 28: The Road to the Civil War
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May 29
: Fighting a Modern War
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Tutorials: Abolitionist and Anti-Abolitionist Images

Week Thirteen

June 4: Reconstruction
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June 5
: Conclusion

Tutorials: Photographing War