Schedule, Readings, and Assignments = US1 (Fall 2017)


Schedule----------------------------

Group

Presentation

(Doc-Dis. Lead)
(Vid- Research Video)

Readings
Week 1 = Aug. 21 & 23
Intro, Geography, & Migration Theories
By end of first week:
-----Complete Introduction post
 (Required before submitting any graded assignments.)


By Wednesday of the first week:
READ:
-Columbus's Description of the Discovery of America (1492)
-Las Casas's Description of the Spanish Conquest of Cuba


Week 2 = Aug. 28 & 30
-  Native Civilizations & lifeways

-Complete Discussion post
                                                                                              

                    
Read
T
: Ch.  1 all
-Online Primary Documents          

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/JamestownPercyObservations.pdf
Columbus establishes the Town of Isabella on Hispaniola, 1493*
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ColumbusHispaniola.pdf

Week 3= Sep. 6      (No Class Monday)
The Settlement of North America
-Complete Discussion post

                                                                            

READ:
-T= Ch. 2
Book = Devastation of the Indies, Las Casas (in its entirely)
Week 4 = Sep. 11 & 13
Chesapeake and the Low Country
-Complete Discussion post

(Sept. 11)
Complete and submit to BB=Paper 1
  
Group 1 – Doc
Group 5 - Vid

READ:
-T= Ch. 3  

-Online Primary Documents =

-An account from John Smith (Broken English)
http://www.johnsmith400.org/journalfirstvoyage.htm 
-A letter by John Rolfe on marrying Pocahontas.

http://www.smithsoniansource.org/PrimarySourceId=1171
-Declaration made by Nathaniel Bacon.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5800
-Governor William Berkely on Bacon's Rebellion 19 May 1676

http://governor-william-berkely-on-bacons-rebellion-19-may-1676.php
Week 5 = Sep. 18 & 20
New England and Mid-Atlantic    
 
-Complete Discussion post

Group 2 – Doc
Group 6 - Vid

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
Week 6 = Sep. 25 & 27
Rising tensions and the motivation of Revolt 
-Complete Discussion post


Group 3 – Doc
Group 7 - Vid

READ:
-T= Ch. 5

-Online Primary Documents = 

--Declaration of independence
http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/
--Townshend Act
 
http://www.loc.gov/s/timeline/amrev/brittwo/repeal.html
--Thomas Hutchinson recounts the reaction of the Stamp act
 
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/hutchinsonstampact.html

Week 7 = Oct. 2 & 4
A War of Revolution???
-Complete Discussion post


Group 4 – Doc
Group 8 - Vid
READ: -T Ch. 6
-Online Primary Documents

--English Bill of rights
 
http://www.constitution.org/eng/eng_bor.htm
--Thomas Jefferson. "An Act--Establishing Religious Freedom," 1786.

http://classroom.monticello.org/Statute-of-Virginia-for-Religious-Freedom/
--Speech of Patrick Henry
http://the-anti-federalist-papers/speech-of-patrick-henry-(june-5-1788).php
 

Week 8 = Oct. 11 (No Class Monday)

Mid-Term Exam
Week 9 = Oct. 16 & 18
A Floundering Experiment and the Constitution
-Complete Discussion post

Group 5 – Doc
Group 9 - Vid
READ: -T Ch. 7
-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
-Slavery and the Constitution
http:///the-anti-federalist-papers/slavery-and-constitution-(august-21-22).php

Week 10 = Oct. 23 & 25
The Politics of Stability

-Complete Discussion post

 
Group 6 – Doc
Group 1 - Vid
READ:
-T Ch. 8
------------------------Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

-Online Primary Documents

-George Washington Farewell Address 
http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/documents_gw/farewell/transcript.html
Week 11 = Oct. 30 & Nov. 1
An Expanding Nation
-Complete Discussion post


Group 7 – Doc
Group 2 - Vid

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) Lewis and Clark
 
http://college/history/eamerica/media/ch9/resources/documents/lewisclark.htm

-Act of1820 :

http://abolition.nypl.org/content/docs/text/Act_of_1820.pdf

Week 12 = Nov. 6 & 9
Northern Industry and Reform
-Complete Discussion post


Group 8 – Doc
Group 3 - Vid

READ:
-T= Ch. 9

---------------------Walden Thoreau (Read in its entirety)-Online Primary Documents:

-Republican Motherhood 1815)
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=3&psid=243

-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

Week 13 = Nov. 13 & 15
 Southern Agriculture
-Complete Discussion post

(Nov. 13)
 -Complete and submit Paper 2

 

READ:
-T= Ch. 11
 
-Online Primary Documents:
-
George Fitzhugh advocates slavery 
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3141t.html
-Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery (1852)  
http://college/history/america7_brief/content/multimedia/ch15/research_02a.htm

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- Declaration of Sentiments, William Lloyd Garrison (1833) 
http://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

Thanksgiving = Nov. 20  (No Class Wed.)
-Complete Discussion post




READ:
-T= Ch. 12
 

Week 14 = Nov. 27 & 29
Regional Tensions Build
-Complete Discussion post
Group 9 – Doc
Group 4 - Vid

READ:
-T= Ch. 13
-Online Primary Documents:
-Slave Kidnapping Poster (1851): 
https://upload.wikimedia.org/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/

Week 15 = Dec. 4 & 6
A Nation Torn Apart  
-Complete Discussion post

(Dec. 6)
-Complete and submit Cumulative Paper


READ:
-T= Ch. 14

-Online Primary Documents:
-Gettysburg Address   
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/primary-sources/abraham-lincolns-gettysburg-address
-Emancipation Proclamation   
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/emancipation.html

Final Exam -Wed. Dec. 13, 10am