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COURSE INTRODUCTION
Course Syllabus and Calendar
Student Profile
SEMESTER
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Guidelines for Eyewitness Account Group Essays
Eyewitness Account Group Essay Template-WORD 2000/XP
Eyewitness Account Group Essay Template-Older versions of
WORD
Primary Sources:
Eyewitness Account Group Essay 1
Primary Sources:
Eyewitness Account Group Essay 2
Primary Sources:
Eyewitness Account Group Essay 3
WEEK ONE
Orientation
Activity 1.1. How Would You Do?
Why Students Fail Standardized Tests in History
Activity 1.2. Personal Course Objectives
Activity 1.3. Textbook Evaluation
Introduction to Historical Research
Topic 1.1. Using Primary Sources
Topic 1.2. Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources
WEEK TWO
THE COLONIAL/REVOLUTIONARY EXPERIENCE
The Settlement of North America
Topic 2.1 The European Background for Colonization
Topic 2.2 The Motives for British Colonization
Topic 2.3 Spanish, French, and English Settlement
WEEK THREE
The English Transplantation
Topic 3.1 The Southern Colonies: Virginia & the Origins of
Slavery
Topic 3.2 The New England Colonies: The Puritans of Mass. Bay
Topic 3.3 The Middle Colonies: William Penn's Holy
Experiment
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William Penn's Holy Experiment (PowerPoint version)
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William Penn's Holy Experiment (PDF version)
WEEK FOUR
Society and Culture in Provincial America
Topic 4.1 Colonial Population, Economics, and Society
Topic 4.2 The Enlightenment in America
Topic 4.3 The Great Awakening
WEEK FIVE
The Empire Under Strain
Topic 5.1 The Imperial Problem
Topic 5.2 The Western Problem & the Origins of American
Character
Topic 5.3 The Problem of Colonial Taxation
WEEK SIX
The American Revolution
Topic 6.1 The American Revolution
Topic 6.2 War and American Society
WEEK SEVEN
THE EARLY NATIONAL/DEMOCRATIC EXPERIENCE
Development of a Federal
Constitution
Topic 7.1 Creating Republican Institutions
Topic 7.2 The Constitution of 1787
Topic 7.3 Ratification of the Constitution
WEEK EIGHT
The New Nation
Topic 8.1 Establishing a New Government
Topic 8.2 The Political Crisis of the 1790s
Topic 8.3 The First Party System: Federalists v. Republicans
WEEK NINE
The Republicans Take
Office
Topic 9.1 The Jeffersonian Presidency
Topic 9.2 Foreign Entanglements and the War of 1812
Topic 9.3 The Quest for a Republican Society
WEEK TEN
An Expanding Economy
Topic 10.1 Economic Development and Expansion of Markets
Topic 10.2 Changes in the Social Structure
Topic 10.3 Maintaining the Balance of Power
WEEK ELEVEN
A Democratic Revolution
Topic 11.1 The Rise of Popular Politics
Topic 11.2 The Jacksonian Presidency
Topic 11.3 The Second Party System: Whigs and Democrats
WEEK TWELVE
THE CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCE
The Reform Impulse in America
Topic 12.1 The Second Great Awakening
Topic 12.2 Efforts to Reform Society
Topic 12.3 The Women's Movement
WEEK THIRTEEN
Regional Distinctiveness
Topic 13.1 The Industrial North
Topic 13.2 The Agrarian South and the System of Slavery
WEEK FOURTEEN
Westward Expansion
Topic 14.1 Manifest Destiny
Topic 14.2 The Push to the Pacific
Topic 14.3 The War with Mexico
WEEK FIFTEEN
Sectional Conflict
Topic 15.1 The Compromise of 1850
Topic 15.2 the End of the Second Party System
Topic 15.3 The Triumph of the Republicans
WEEK SIXTEEN
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Topic 16.1.
The American Civil War
PowerPoint Version (for fast connections)
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Topic 16.2. The Civil War in Perspective
Sectional Conflict and Compromise Worksheet (PDF Format)
Section Conflict and Compromise Worksheet (RTF Format)
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