|
Schedule
of Classes and Readings Changes
in the schedule are noted in red
italicized letters. Click
for Notes on the Final Examination. |
| Date |
Topic |
Assigned
Reading (to be done prior to class) |
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Part
I: Pre-Colonial and Colonial Period |
| 6/4 |
Introductions,
Pre-Test; Overview
of Course;
Native
Americans, Europe on the Eve of Conquest; 16th century Colonization |
Chapter
1 |
| 6/5 |
English
Colonization: Comparison of Chesapeake Experience with Massachusetts Bay
and the Middle Colonies |
Chapter
2 (We're running
a little behind, will get to Mass and Middle Colonies on 6/6) |
| 6/6 |
Family,
Social Structure and Slavery in Colonial North America; Economics,
Politics and Social Unrest to 1700 |
Chapter
3 |
| 6/7 |
Eighteenth
Century America: Social and Cultural; Clash of Political Cultures; Century
of Imperial War |
Chapter
4
|
|
Part
II: Independence and Early Republic |
6/11
|
The
Movement Toward Independence (1763-1776) |
Chapter
5;
Test 1, covering Chapters 1-4 and classes through 6/7;
First Primary Source Essay Due
(Moved from 6/7!) |
| 6/12 |
The
Revolution; Problems of the Early Republic |
Chapter
6 |
| 6/13 |
The Constitutional Convention
and the Struggle for Ratification (1776-1787) |
Chapter
6 |
| 6/14 |
Democracy
in Distress: The Washington and Adams Presidencies |
Chapter
7 |
| 6/18 |
Jeffersonian
Ascendancy: Expansion and Reform; The Failure of Foreign Policy and the
"Strange War of 1812" |
Chapter
8;
Test 2, covering Chapters 5-8 and classes through 6/11 through 6/18;
Second Primary Source Essay Due |
|
Part
III: Nation Building and Jacksonian Democracy |
| 6/19 |
Nationalism
and Nation Building; Emergence of a Market Economy; the Missouri
Compromise and the Brewing Controversy over Slavery |
Chapter
9 |
| 6/20 |
Andrew
Jackson and the "Triumph of White Men's Democracy" |
Chapter
10 |
| 6/21 |
The
Second Great Awakening; Temperance, Abolitionism, Women's Suffrage and
other Antebellum Reform Movements |
Chapter
11 |
| 6/25 |
Westward
Expansion; Invention & Immigration |
Chapter
12;
Test 3, covering Chapters 9-12 and classes 6/19 through 6/25;
Third Primary Source Essay Due |
|
Part
IV: Slavery, Sectionalism, Secession and Civil War |
| 6/26 |
Film:
Africans in America, Part 3 |
|
| 6/27-6/28 |
Masters
and Slaves: Social Structure and the Institution of Slavery in the
Antebellum South; The Black Experience Under Slavery; Free Blacks in North
and South; The
Sectional Crisis over Slavery (1846-1860) |
Chapters
13
and 14 |
| 7/2 |
The
Civil War: From Secession to Gettysburg |
Chapter
15, pages 441-463 |
| 7/3 |
The
Civil War: From Gettysburg to Appomattox; Reconstruction |
Chapter
15, pages 463-471; Final Examination Review |
| 7/4 |
No
Class -- Fourth
of July |
|
| 7/5 |
Final
Examination (Cumulative) |
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