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Samenvatting American CulturePeriode 3
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Week 1: The American Dream ...................................................................................................... 5
Early history of what was to become the US ...................................................................................... 5
Cristoforo Colombo (Christopher Columbus) ..................................................................................... 5
A definition of the American Dream ................................................................................................... 5
Declaration of independence.............................................................................................................. 5
Why was the image of America largely a European invention? ......................................................... 5
Week 2: Pilgrims and Puritans ...................................................................................................... 6
The Pilgrims or Pilgrim Fathers ........................................................................................................... 6
Thanksgiving........................................................................................................................................ 6
Puritanism ........................................................................................................................................... 6
How to become a Puritan ................................................................................................................... 7
Puritan or protestant work ethic ........................................................................................................ 7
Some positive aspects of the Puritan work ethic: .............................................................................. 7
Some negative sides of the Puritan work ethic: ................................................................................. 7
Fill in the blanks exercise .................................................................................................................... 8
Which episode from American colonial history is depicted here? ..................................................... 9
Puritan influences on modern-day America ....................................................................................... 9
American Gothic (by Grant Wood) ................................................................................................... 10
Week 3: Native Americans ......................................................................................................... 11
1991 open letter to George Bush ..................................................................................................... 11
Native Americans and the Colonizers: from cooperation to indignation to revolt .......................... 11
1. Native American Diversity............................................................................................................. 11
2. (Lack of) Cultural relativism .......................................................................................................... 13
3. Polar cultures ................................................................................................................................ 13
Native American genocide? .............................................................................................................. 14
The Trail of Tears............................................................................................................................... 14
Natuve American - US relations 1865-1890...................................................................................... 14
Indian Policy ...................................................................................................................................... 15
1. Assimilation through reduction of tribal authority ....................................................................... 15
2. Assimilation through education .................................................................................................... 15
3. Assimilation through allotment .................................................................................................... 15
Policy between 1934 and now .......................................................................................................... 16
Reservations...................................................................................................................................... 16
Quiz ................................................................................................................................................... 17
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,Week 5: The Revolution and the Early Republic .......................................................................... 18
Recap quiz ......................................................................................................................................... 18
French & Indian War (1756-1763) .................................................................................................... 19
British Colonies in 1775 .................................................................................................................... 19
American Revolution......................................................................................................................... 19
Colonial Resistance (video) ............................................................................................................... 20
Independence ................................................................................................................................... 21
Declaration of Independence ........................................................................................................... 21
Declaration of Independence (video) ............................................................................................... 21
American Independence: a timeline ................................................................................................. 22
George Washington (video) .............................................................................................................. 23
Why was the American revolution important? ................................................................................ 23
Ideas at the heart of US government................................................................................................ 23
Bill of Rights (i.e. first 10 amendments) ............................................................................................ 23
The Constitution................................................................................................................................ 24
Quiz ................................................................................................................................................... 25
Week 6: The West ...................................................................................................................... 27
Recap quiz ......................................................................................................................................... 27
Manifest Destiny ............................................................................................................................... 29
Mexican-American war 1846-1848 ................................................................................................... 30
The Long Jump .................................................................................................................................. 30
The Oregon Trail (1843) .................................................................................................................... 31
California gold rush (1849)................................................................................................................ 32
Homestead Act (1862) ...................................................................................................................... 32
Mormons........................................................................................................................................... 33
The Transcontinental Railroad (1869) .............................................................................................. 34
The Cowboy ...................................................................................................................................... 35
The Myth of the Cowboy .................................................................................................................. 35
The Popularization of the Cowboy.................................................................................................... 36
Some Westerns ................................................................................................................................. 36
Some recent Westerns...................................................................................................................... 37
10 of the most notorious women of the Wild West ......................................................................... 38
Match the right pairs ........................................................................................................................ 39
Week 7: The South ..................................................................................................................... 40
Southern culture ............................................................................................................................... 40
Southern Accent................................................................................................................................ 40
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, 1860: North and South: Different Cultures....................................................................................... 41
Match the right pairs ........................................................................................................................ 41
Foundations of Slavery in America .................................................................................................. 42
The life of a slave .............................................................................................................................. 43
Indentured servitude ........................................................................................................................ 43
Abolitionist Movement ..................................................................................................................... 44
William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator ........................................................................................ 45
Harriet Beecher Stowe — Uncle Tom's Cabin................................................................................... 47
Book recommendations .................................................................................................................... 49
Western Expansion and Debate over Slavery ................................................................................... 50
Outbreak of the Civil War (1861-1865)............................................................................................. 51
The evens that lead up to the Civil War in the right order ............................................................... 51
The Civil War ..................................................................................................................................... 51
Reconstruction .................................................................................................................................. 52
Goal of the Reconstruction ............................................................................................................... 52
Jim Crow Laws ................................................................................................................................... 56
Institutionalised racism in modern day America .............................................................................. 57
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