HIST 4432 - Colonial America (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course focuses on early American history from the pre-contact to the period just prior to the Revolution. It examines the growing prosperity of the colonial American colonies, the increasing diversity of their populations, and the tensions and crises that resulted from both of these developments. Topics will include the rise of slavery, the birth of consumer society, and the contest among European nations and their Indian allies over the future of North America.