HIST 2154 - Minorities in US History (OER): Module 2: Revolution & the Republic, 1775-1830

Topic 1: Native American Indian Voices in the Revolution & Early Republic

• Serihowane's Statement after the Treaty of Ft. Stanwix, 1774
• Oneida Declaration of Neutrality, 1775
• Alexander McGillivray Seeks Creek Alliance with Spain, 1785
• Speech of the United Indian Nations at their Confederate Council, 1786
• To George Washington from the Seneca Chiefs, 1 December 1790
• American Indian Council Response to Little Turtle's War, 1794
• Chief of the Little Osages, 1807
• Tenskwatawa, 1807
• Tecumseh calls for Pan-Indian Resistance, 1810

Topic 2: African American Voices in the Revolution & Early Republic

• Phyllis Wheatley's "Thoughts on the Works of Providence," 1773

• Dunmore's Proclamation, 1775
• Act Abolishing Slavery in Pennsylvania, 1780
• Letter of Cato and Petition by Freed Slaves, 1781
• Act Emancipating Austin Dabney, 1786
• Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, 1788
• Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1791
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture Smith, 1798
• Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, A Black Preacher, 1798
• Peter Kiteridge Letter, 1806

Topic 3: Women’s Voices in the Revolution & Early Republic

• "Remember the Ladies: Abigail and John Adams Converse on Women’s Rights, 1776 
• Women in South Carolina Experience Occupation, 1780
• Mary Smith Cranch, Comments on Politics, 1786-1787
• "Genius of the Ladies," 1792
• Charlotte Temple, by Susannah Rowson, 1794
• Abigail Bailey Escapes an Abusive Relationship, 1815

Topic 4: American Ideals

• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution (Excerpts)
• "What is an American?" by Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, 1782

Crash Course US History [CC-BY-SA]

• Taxes and Smuggling: Prelude to Revolution
• Who Won the American Revolution?
• The Constitution, the Articles, and Federalism
• Thomas Jefferson & his Democracy
• Slavery
• The War of 1812

Crash Course Black American History [CC-BY-SA]

• Phillis Wheatley
• The American Revolution
• The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Slave Trade Clause
• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
• Women's Experience Under Slavery
• The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811

Khan Academy, [CC-BY-SA]

• Social Consequences of Revolutionary Ideals
• Regional Attitudes about Slavery

The American Revolution Institute [Licensing Statement]

• Oneida and Six Nations
• Native American Women and the American Revolution
• Revolutionary Transformation of Women’s Role in Society
• African American Women and the American Revolution
• Women who Followed the Continental Army
• Daughters of Liberty and Loyalist Women
• The Revolutionary Challenge to Slavery
• Slavery and America's Revolutionary Leaders

Other

• Women during the American Revolution [James Madison Institute, Use Statement]

The American Yawp Textbook [CC-BY-SA]

• The American Yawp, Chapter 5 
• The American Yawp, Chapter 6
• The American Yawp, Chapter 7 

African American History Textbook [CC-BY-SA]

• African Americans and the American Revolution, pp. 51-69
• Creating an African American Culture, pp. 70-86

Teaching American Indian History through Primary Sources [NPS, Public Domain]

• Chapter 3: Wars, Treaties, and Betrayals, pp. 63-87

Women & the American Story [New York Historical Society, Use Statement]

• The American Revolution
  • Margaret Corbin
  • Lorenda Holmes
  • Deborah Squash
  • Peggy Gwynn
  • Peggy Arnold
  • Nanyehi Nancy Ward
  • Elizabeth Freeman
  • Nancy Morgan Hart
• Navigating the New Government
  • Dolley Madison
  • Ona Judge
  • Margaret Bayard Smith
  • Sukey
  • Eliza Brock
• American Woman
  • Jarena Lee
  • Sally Hemings
  • Asenath Smith
  • Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
  • Charity & Sylvia
• Early Expansion
  • Sacagawea
  • Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley
  • Lydia Carter
  • Harriet R. Gold Boudinot

The Conversation [CC-BY-ND]

• 3 ways to improve education about slavery in the US
• American slavery: Separating fact from myth
• Hidden figures: How black women preachers spoke truth to power

Other

• Pontiac's Uprising [Khan Academy, CC-BY-NC-SA]
• Women in the American Revolution [Khan Academy, CC-BY-NC-SA]

• Online
• Face to Face

• Concept Knowledge Self Assessment (Pre/Post)
• Discussion Options
• Study Guide

Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
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• Slavery in the Constitution

History Matters (HM)

• Society of Patriotic Women in Edenton, NC
• Utilizing the Registers of Free Blacks For the City of Staunton and Augusta County, Virginia, 1803–1864

National Archives: Docs Teach [Public Domain] 

• Indian Nations vs. Settlers on the American Frontier: 1786–1788
• Analyzing the Petition Against the Treaty of New Echota
• Lewis & Clark's Expedition to the Complex West
• Deborah Sampson Gannett: A Woman Soldier in the Revolutionary War

Native American Voices

• How did Native Americans react to the American Revolution and to the Peace of Paris that ended the war? 

• After the American Revolution, the First Nations suggested that the government pay the American settlers for the disputed lands. What kinds of differences might there be between Native American and European American economics? Why was money of no value to the Native Americans? What did have value? 

• What were Tecumseh’s goals? What were Tenskwatawa's goals? How did they overlap? How did they differ? 

African American Voices

• What role did Black Americans play in the American Revolution? What were the consequences of the war (and American independence) for them? 

• What were the limits of freedom for African Americans after the Revolution? 

Women's Voices

• What roles did women play in the American Revolution? 

• How did the Revolution change the lives of American women? What were the limits of that change?