Week 1 = August 24
Intro, Geography, & Migration Theories
By end of first week:
READ:
-Complete Intro post and read the
below online documents before
next class. (Required before submitting any graded
assignments.)
D: Columbus's
Description of the Discovery of America (1492)
Las Casas's Description of the Spanish Conquest of Cuba
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Week 2 = August 31
- Native Civilizations & lifeways
T:
Ch. 1 all
Read
= book = Devastation
of the Indies, Las Casas (in its entirely)
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
Native
Americans
When did the First Americans arrive?
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The Settlement of North America
READ:
-T= Ch. 2
Jacques Cartier’s Second Voyage to the St. Lawrence River
and Interior of “Canada,” 1535-1536
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/exploration/text2/cartier.pdf
Observations Gathered out of a Discourse of the Plantation of
the Southern Colony in Virginia by the English, 1606.
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/settlement/text1/JamestownPercyObservations.pdf
Columbus establishes the Town of Isabella on Hispaniola, 1493*
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/amerbegin/settlement/text1/ColumbusHispaniola.pdf
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Week 4
= September 14
Chesepeake and the Low Country
READ:
-T= Ch. 3
-Online Primary Documents =
An account from John Smith and
members of his crew. (Broken English)
http://www.johnsmith400.org/journalfirstvoyage.htm
A letter by John Rolfe on marrying Pocahontas.
http://www.smithsoniansource.org/display/primarysource/viewdetails.aspx?TopicId=&PrimarySourceId=1171
Declaration made by Nathaniel Bacon.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5800
Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion 19 May 1676
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1651-1700/governor-william-berkely-on-bacons-rebellion-19-may-1676.php
=Watch Lecture Videos by
clicking on the links below:
US1 -
Bacon's Rebellion=A case study in colonial VA part 1
US1 -
Bacon's Rebellion=A case study in colonial VA part 2
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Week 5 = September 21
New England and Mid-Atlantic
----------Complete
and submit on BB = Paper 1
READ:
-T= Ch. 4
-Online Primary Documents
:
-Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1629 http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1600-1650/charter-of-massachusetts-bay-1629.php
-The Journal of John Winthrop
(Excerpts) http://www.constitution.org/primarysources/winthrop.html
-Jonathan Edwards: On the Great Awakening: http://www.nhinet.org/ccs/docs/awaken.htm
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
Puritainism
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Week 6 =
September 28
Rising tensions and the
motivation of Revolt
READ:
-T= Ch. 5
-Online Primary Documents
=
--Declaration of
independence http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/
--Townshend Act
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/amrev/brittwo/repeal.html
--Thomas Hutchinson
recounts the reaction of the Stamp act http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/hutchinsonstampact.html
--English Bill of rights http://www.constitution.org/eng/eng_bor.htm
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
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Causes of the America Revolution = Part 1
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Causes of the America Revolution = Part 2
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Week 7 = October 5
Mid-Term Exam
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Week 8 = October 12
A Floundering Experiment and the Constitution
READ:
Thomas Jefferson. "An Act for
Establishing Religious Freedom," 16 January 1786.
http://classroom.monticello.org/kids/gallery/image/275/Statute-of-Virginia-for-Religious-Freedom/
Speech of Patrick Henry
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1786-1800/the-anti-federalist-papers/speech-of-patrick-henry-(june-5-1788).php
Slavery and the Constitution
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1786-1800/the-anti-federalist-papers/slavery-and-constitution-(august-21-22).php
-Bill of
Rights =
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
Constitution
Explained
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Week 9 = October 19
The Politics of
Stability
READ:
-T Ch. 8
-Online Primary Documents
-Constitution = http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
-Bill of Rights =http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
--George Washington Farewell
Address http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents_gw/farewell/transcript.html
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
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Defining America = The Early Republic's Two Party System.
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Week 10 = October 26
An Expanding
Nation
-Complete
and submit Video Group Research
Presentation
READ:
-T=
Ch. 10
-Online Primary Documents:
-Louisiana Purchase
Treaty; April 30, 1803--
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/louis1.asp
-Journals of Exploration
(1804–05) Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/eamerica/media/ch9/resources/documents/lewisclark.htm
-Missouri
Compromise 1820
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=003/llsl003.db&recNum=586
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
US1
- Manifest Destiny = Expansion and Complication
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Week 11 = November 2
Northern Industry and Reform
READ:
-T=
Ch. 9
-Online Primary Documents:
Act
of1820 : http://abolition.nypl.org/content/docs/text/Act_of_1820.pdf
The Lowell Mill Girls Go on Strike, 1836 http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5714/
Harriet Martineau on Chicago (1837)
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/foner2/contents/ch09/documents09.asp
The American Frugal Housewife (1829) http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/foner2/contents/ch09/documents06.asp
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
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Transportation Revolution= Market Revolution in an age of
Mobility
US1 - The
Merrimack River= A Case Study in Early Industrialization.
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Week 12 = November 9
Southern Agriculture
READ:
-T= Ch. 11 &
12
-Online Primary
Documents:
-George Fitzhugh advocates
slavery http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3141t.html
-Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery
(1852) http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/america7_brief/content/multimedia/ch15/research_02a.htm
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- Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery
Society, William Lloyd Garrison (1833) http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/archive/resources/documents/ch15_04.htm
- (1854) William Lloyd Garrison, “No Compromise
with the Evil of Slavery” http://www.blackpast.org/1854-william-lloyd-garrison-no-compromise-evil-slavery
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
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Selling Down the River= The Slave Trade and the South
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Week 13 = November 16
Early 19th Century Change
-Complete and submit Paper 2
READ:
-T= Ch. 8
Walden Thoreau (Read in its
entirety)
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Week 14 = November 30
Regional
Tensions Build
READ:-T= Ch. 13
-Online Primary
Documents:
-Slave Kidnapping
Poster (1851): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Slave_kidnap_post_1851_boston.jpg
-In Defense of His Attack on Sumner (1856) by Preston Smith
Brooks: http://www.bartleby.com/268/9/15.html
-A House Divided Speech (1858) by Abraham Lincoln: http://voicesofdemocracy.umd.edu/lincoln-a-house-divided-speech-text/
=Watch Lecture Videos by clicking on the links
below:
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Compromise = The Battle to Prevent Civil War. Part 1
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- Compromise = The Battle to Prevent Civil War. Part 2
Week 15 = December 7
A Nation
Torn Apart
READ:
-T= Ch. 14
-Online Primary
Documents:
-Gettysburg Address http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/gettysburg-address.html
-Emancipation Proclamation http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/emancipation.html
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Week 16 = December 14th = 2pm
Final Exam