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Course Introduction

Prior to starting first assignment review requirements and plan your course. Think about the essays you plan to write and look over practice quizzes & exams. Post Introduction in Blackboard.

Part 1: Colonial America

• Introduction to American History
• Colonial Home
• Introduction: Prehistory
• Introduction & Native Americans
• Virginia: The Jamestown Disaster
• New England Puritans
• New Colonies
• Life in the Colonies
• The Great Awakening
• The Enlightenment in America
  

Required Documents:

• John Smith: Jamestown
• Mayflower Compact
• John Winthrop
• Mary Jemison
• Poems by Anne Bradstreet
• Maryland Act on Religion
• Gottlieb Mittelberger
• The Middle Passage
• Virginia Company Charter 1609
• Virginia Slave Laws
• New Haven Colony Government

Assignments, quizzes, exams and essays, are due no later than midnight on Sunday at the end of each week.

Essay 1 Due

See Instructions

First assignment must be submitted by March 20 to verify course attendance.

Life in Colonial America: America & the Empire

• Colonies & the Empire
• Mercantilism
• Second Hundred Years' War
• The Coming Revolution
• American Revolution Introduction
• Background Events, 1761-1774
• Representation: Actual & Virtual

Documents

• The Albany Plan of Union
• James Otis
• Stamp Act Resolutions
• Boston Port Act, 1774
• Continental Congress Resolutions
• Henry: “Liberty or Death!”
• Paine's Common Sense
• Declaration of Independence

Quiz 1 on Colonial and Revolutionary Background, on all readings for weeks 1 & 2.

Take at home, no password. You may consult notes, etc.

Link in Blackboard

COURSE DATES

Era of the American Revolution, 1760-1800

• Revolution Home
• War of Independence 1775-1777
• The Revolutionary War 1778-1783
• The Treaty of Paris, 1783
• Washington: The Indispensable Man
  
• Government under the Articles of Confederation
• The Northwest Ordinance
• Making the Constitution: Philadelphia 1787
• Ratification & the Bill of Rights

Documents

• Articles of Confederation
• Blacks Petition on Taxation
• The Virginia Bill of Rights
• Virginia Religious Freedom Act
• The Treaty of Paris, 1783
• The Northwest Ordinance

Essay 2 Due: The Constitution

Instructions

• Constitution & Bill of Rights
• Mason, Madison, Franklin & Henry on the Constitution
• Franklin: Constitution
• Madison: Federalist #10
• Patrick Henry: Against Ratification

CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

• Republican Government Underway
• The 1790s Part 1: Washington
• Politics: Federalists and Republicans
• Hamilton and Financial Reform
• The French Revolution and America
• The 1790s Part 2: Adams

Documents:

• Washington's Farewell Address
• The Sedition Act of 1798
• Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions

Essay Exam 1: Take Essay Questions in Testing Center
Exam Pass in Blackboard.
Study Guide

Quiz 2: MC/TF take at home.
Do Exam/Quiz in any order. Password not needed
for Quiz 2.

Jeffersonian & Jacksonian Democracy, 1800-1840

• Jefferson-Jackson Home
• Thomas Jefferson as President
• President James Madison
• The War of 1812
• James Monroe's Administration
• Sectional Issues
• Monroe Doctrine
• John Marshall and the Court
• Missouri Compromise
• John Quincy Adams Administration
• Jackson & the Common Man
• The Strange Affair of Peggy Eaton
• Jackson & The Bank
• The Nullification Crisis
• The Cherokee Indian Removal
• Whigs and Van Buren
  

Documents

• Jefferson 's First Inaugural
• Madison 's War Message
• Chronology of War of 1812
• Hartford Convention Resolutions
• Webster's Union Address
• South Carolina Nullification
• Jackson: Reply to S. Carolina
• Jackson's Bank Veto

John Marshall and the Court

• Marbury v. Madison
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward
• McCullough v. Maryland
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

Essay 3 Due

You have your choice of 2 essays here. Do either one but not both.

• Essay A: American Democracy in the Making.
• Essay B. Chief Justice John Marshall.

Instructions

Last Withdrawal Date April 15

An Age of Reform: Antebellum America

• Tocqueville's America
• Religion, Reform & The Second Great Awakening
• Women's Rights
• Social and Cultural Issues
• African-Americans on the Plantation
• The Abolitionist Movement
• Expansion & Civil War Introduction
• The 1840s: The Tyler Administration
• Webster-Ashburton Treaty
  
• Texas & the Mexican-American War
• The Oregon Boundary Dispute

Documents:

• Tocqueville on America
• Seneca Falls Declaration
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Views of Slavery
• Texas Independence
• President Polk's War Message

Quiz 3. Jefferson-Jackson and Antebellum
Covers Readings for
Weeks 5-6

Do at Home, no password required.

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Expansion, Slavery & Civil War, 1840-1865

• The 1850s
• 1850 Compromise
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Rise of Abraham Lincoln
• The Dred Scott Decision
• The !860 Election & Secession
  
• Civil War Introduction
• The Civil War 1861-1862
• The War in the West to Shiloh, 1862

Documents:

• 1850 Compromise Debates: Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Seward
• Dred Scott v Sandford
• Republican Platform, 1860
• Secession Documents: Virginia, South Carolina, etc.
• Lincoln 's 1st Inaugural Address
• The Confederate Constitution
• Alexander Stephens's Cornerstone Speech

Site Visit Essay Due

This Essay requires a visit to an actual historic site of history related museum or exhibit.

Instructions

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Vicksburg to Appomattox

• Antietam: First Turning Point
• Lincoln and Emancipation
• The Civil War: Gettysburg to Appomattox
• Sherman in Georgia and Carolina
• President Lincoln Assassinated

Course Ends May 7

Documents:

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Lincoln 's 2nd Inaugural Address
• Sherman to the People of Atlanta

Exam 2. Objective and Essay
Take in Testing Center
Exam Pass in Blackboard

Quiz 4: MC/TF take at home. Covers Weeks 7 & 8, 18501865.
Do Exam/Quiz in any order. Password not needed
for Quiz 2.