SLO #1: Develop and persuasively argue a historical thesis in a written assignment that identifies and explains major social, economic, political and/or cultural themes or patterns in United States history to 1877.
SLO #2: Apply appropriate historical methods to analyze and use primary and/or secondary sources as evidence to support the thesis in an essay addressing issues in United States history to 1877.
Freedom has been a central theme of Colonial American history. Yet, the application of freedom has varied greatly throughout this period and among different groups of people. Using the assigned textbooks in this course (US Openstax, Howard Zinns Voices of a Peoples History of the United States and the modules form an argument regarding how indenture servants/slaves, colonialist, native indigenous people, women, and Mexicans have experienced and/or been denied freedom.