SCHEDULE OF ASSIGNMENTS, HISTORY 122
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WEEK
Course Introduction
Prior to starting the first assignment review requirements and plan your course. Think about the essays you are to write and look over practice quizzes & exams.
Post Introduction in Blackboard.
Course Instructions
Course Information
1
Reconstruction & the Gilded Age
Documents:
- With Malice Toward None
- Civil War Amendments
- Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction
- Louisiana and Mississippi Black Codes
- Judge Albion Tourgee on the KKK
- Booker T. Washington: Atlanta
- W.E.B. Du Bois on Booker Washington
- Plessy v. Ferguson—Harlan’s Dissent
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Turner's Frontier Thesis
- Indian Stories—Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, et. al.
- Helen Hunt Jackson
Assignments are due by any time Saturday of the week assigned. Sunday is an extra “day of grace."
Essay 1 due this week.
First assignment must be submitted by March 20 to verify course attendance.
2
The Gilded Age, Continued
- Industrialization
- The War Between Capital and Labor
- Immigration/Urbanization
- Gilded Age Politics
- The Populist Movement
Progressivism: Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
Documents:
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
- Henry George: The Problem
- Interstate Commerce Act of 1877
- Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890
- The Populist Platform of 1892
- Bryan: “Cross of Gold” Speech 1896
- Lincoln Steffens: Shame of the Cities
- Theodore Roosevelt on Progressivism
- T. Roosevelt on Labor
- T. Roosevelt on Trusts
- T. Roosevelt on Conservation
- Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
- The Socialist Party Platform of 1912
- T. Roosevelt's Acceptance Speech 1912
- Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
- Ida Tarbell, the Standard Oil Company
Quiz 1: Reconstruction, the Gilded Age and Progressivism—Readings for
Weeks 1 & 2
Take at Home, No Password
Link in Blackboard
3
The Age of Imperialism
- Introduction
- American Imperialism
- Mahan and Sea Power
- The Spanish-American War
- United States and Asia
America and World War I
Documents:
- Cleveland on Hawaii
- McKinley on Cuba
- The Teller Amendment
- The Anti-Imperialist League
- John Hay's Open Door
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
- Page on Spanish-American War
- Wilson and Neutrality
- Wilson Peace without Victory
- Wilson's 14 Points
- The Zimmermann Telegram
- Wilson Takes America to War
- Senator Norris on World War I
Essay 2 Due This Week
Look over comments on Essay 1, which was returned to you by mail.
4
Twenties, Depression & New Deal, 1920-1938
Documents:
- Caroline Bird on Poverty
- The Depression in Chicago
- The Depression and Men’s Self-Esteem
- FDR Commonwealth Club Address
- FDR's First Inaugural Address
- FDR Fireside Chat on the New Deal, 1934
- The National Industrial Recovery Act
- FDR's Second Inaugural Address
- Inside the New Deal
- Huey Long: “Share Our Wealth”
- The Social Security Act
- Harry Hopkins on the New Deal
Take Essay Exam 1 in Campus Testing Center or through ProctorU
Take Quiz 2 at Home: Imperialism, World War I, Twenties, Depression & New Deal—Weeks 3-4
No Password
5
Documents:
Film Critique Essay Due
Last Withdrawal Date April 15
6
World War II Continued
- The Air War Over Germany
- The Holocaust
- The Home Front
- Internment of the Japanese
- Diplomacy & Summary
- Legacy of World War II
- Resources & Chronology
Postwar America
Documents:
Take Quiz 3: World War II & the Cold War: Weeks 5-6
Take at Home, No Password
7
Postwar America: Domestic Issues
- The 1940s and 1950s: Truman and Eisenhower
- Automobile Age
- JFK and the Cold War: The Bay of Pigs and the Missile Crisis
- Kennedy and Vietnam
Civil Rights
Documents
- Eisenhower: The Domino Theory
- John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
- JFK on Berlin: “Ich bin ein Berliner”
- Harry Truman's Executive Order
- Brown v. Topeka Board of Education
- The 1957 Civil Rights Act
- The 1964 Civil Rights Act
- King: Letter from a Birmingham Jail
- Baker v. Carr
- LBJ On the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Johnson's Great Society
- The National Organization for Women
Site Visit Essay Due
8
America in Vietnam
Reagan, Bush, Clinton Years, to 2001
Course ends May 7
Documents:
Take Essay Exam 2:
Weeks 5-8 in
Testing Center or ProctorU
Take Quiz 4: Post-WW2 America, Civil Rights, Vietnam, to year 2000.
Weeks 7-8
Take at Home, No Password
