Week 2: How did English goals for the conquest and colonization of Ireland change after 1565?

Week 3: What was the "color line" and why was it drawn?

Week 4: Why did the French cultivate such positive relations with Indians?

Week 5: How did the Spanish succeed in fulfilling their goals of conquest and colonization in the Caribbean and California? How did they fail?

Week 6: In what ways was the American Revolution radical? In what ways was it essentially conservative?

Week 7: What role did class conflict play in the American Revolution?

Week 8: What were the "boundaries" and why and how were they "permeable"?

Week 9: How did Indian nations resist removal?

Week 10: How did Americans resist the Mexican war?

Week 11: How did African Americans, slave and free, resist slavery?

Week 12: Flow did working class people resist economic inequality in the early nineteenth century?

Week 13: How did African Americans shape the goals of Reconstruction?

All essays must be:

• Typed

• Double-spaced

• 12 point, Times New Roman font

• I" margins

• Proofread for grammar and spelling

• 2 pages each

• Submitted to the appropriate D2L dropbox

• Submitted in hard copy in class

Don't annoy Dr. Sousa! Please use standard historical essay formatting: Chicago style citations. 12 point, double-spaced, page numbered, Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins (check your Word program-these might not be the default settings!)

Make sure you get your papers into the drop boxes and hard copies to me on time, every time. Don't make me have to re-open a drop box for you. Don't make me grade angry. You won't like me when 1 grade angry.