Class Schedule…the readings listed are those you should have read for that day’s class!

Date

Topics to be covered   

Readings & Assignments

Monday
8 Jan 07            

Introduction

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Wednesday
10 Jan 07

Exploration
& Conquest


Letter to the King and Queen of Spain
(1494)

Discourse of Western Planting (1584)

Friday
12 Jan 07

Early Settlements


Instructions for the Virginia Colony
(1606)

Mayflower Compact (1620)

Monday
15 Jan 07    
No class... ...Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Wednesday
17 Jan 07

Establishing
Communities


The Maryland Toleration Act
(1649)

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676)

Friday
19 Jan 07

Indentured Servants
& Immigration


Laws on Indentured Servants
(1600s)

Scottish Immigration to the American Colonies (1772)

Monday
22 Jan 07

Understanding Slavery


The Middle Passage
, excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of Gustavus Vassa (1789)

Virginia Gazette advertisement about a Runaway Slave (1769)

Wednesday
24 Jan 07

Quiz #1

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Friday
26 Jan 07

The French & Indian War


The Role of the Indians in the Rivalry Between France, Spain, and England
(1761)

Resolutions of the Stamp Act (1765)

Monday
29 Jan 07

Colonial Education


Customary Education and Employment of the Inhabitants of Nantucket
(1782)

How I Became a Printer in Philadelphia (1788)

Wednesday
31 Jan 07

Revolutionary Ideas


“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”
(1775)

The Declaration of Independence (1776)

Friday
2 Feb 07

The Revolutionary War


Recruiting and Maintaining an Army (1776)

“From the Diary of a Surgeon at Valley Forge” (1777)

Monday
5 Feb 07

Writing the Constitution


The Preamble
& Article VI of the Constitution (1787)

The Bill of Rights (1789)

Wednesday
7 Feb 07

Quiz #2 .

Friday
9 Feb 07

The Louisiana Purchase


The Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800)

Second Inaugural Address (1805)

Monday
12 Feb 07           

The War of 1812


State of the Nation Address
(1812)

The Star Spangled Banner (1814)

Wednesday
14 Feb 07

No class...
Friday
16 Feb 07
Life in Ohio


Love Knot Valentine
(c. 1815)

John Yancy Land Grant (1819)

Monday
19 Feb 07         

U.S. Foreign Policy


The Monroe Doctrine
(1823)

The Barbary Treaties (1824)

Wednesday
21 Feb 07 

Westward Expansion


“Manifest Destiny” (1839)

Preface to The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California (1845)

Friday
23 Feb 07

Quiz #3 .

Monday
26 Feb 07

Discuss
History Lessons

Chapter 9: The Monroe Doctrine

Wednesday
28 Feb 07          

Discuss
History Lessons

Chapter 10: Manifest Destiny

Friday
2 Mar 07

No class...

...First paper due by 5:00 p.m.

Monday-Friday
5-9 Mar 07

No class... ...Spring Break!!!

Monday
12 Mar 07

The Industrial Revolution (Invention)


Cotton Gin Petition
(1793)

Letter to President George Washington (1797)

Wednesday
14 Mar 07

The Industrial Revolution (Workers)


The Inland Port
(1835)

Lowell Mill Girls (1883)

Friday
16 Mar 07      
Romanticism & Trancendentalism


Self-Reliance
(1841)

"What is Beauty?" (1843)

Monday
19 Mar 07

Women’s Rights


Declaration of Sentiments
(1848)

“Ain’t I A Woman?” (1851)

Wednesday
21 Mar 07

Debates over Slavery


The Life of Plantation Field Hands
(1857)

Excerpt from Cotton is King (1860)

Friday
23 Mar 07

Quiz #4

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Monday
26 Mar 07

The American Civil War (Rallying Support)


Cornerstone Address
(1861)

The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1862)

Wednesday
28 Mar 07          

The American Civil War (Legislative Solutions)


The Homestead Act
(1862)

The Morrill Act (1862)

Friday
30 Mar 07          

The American Civil War (Legislative Solutions)


The Pacific Railway Act
(1862)

Anti-Coolie Act (1862)

Monday
2 Apr 07

The American Civil War (Famous Men)


The Gettysburg Address
(1863)

Farewell to his Army (1865)

Wednesday
4 Apr 07           

The American Civil War (Women’s Roles)


Letter to Mrs. Bixby
(1864)

The Women Who Went to the Field (1892)

Friday
6 Apr 07

Quiz #5

And Extra Credit Papers due by 5:00 p.m.

Monday
9 Apr 07           

Discuss
History Lessons
Chapter 12: Slavery

Wednesday
11 Apr 07

Discuss
History Lessons
Chapter 13: The Civil War

Friday
13 Apr 07

No class...

...Second paper due by 5:00 p.m.

Monday
16 Apr 07

The American Civil War (The Issue of Slavery)


Emancipation Proclamation
(1863)

Special Field Order No. 15 (1865)

Wednesday
18 Apr 07

Reconstruction


A Freedman’s Bureau Official on the Attitude of ex-Confederates toward the former slaves…
(1865)

An address to the Loyal Citizens and Congress of the United States of America… (1865)

Friday
20 Apr 07

Amending the Constitution


The Fourteenth Amendment
(Ratified 1868)

The Fifteenth Amendment (Ratified 1870)

Monday
23 Apr 07

U. S. Citizenship


Women's Right to Vote
(1873)

Civil Rights Act (1875)

Wednesday
25 Apr 07

Emergence of Modern America


Second Inaugural Address
(1873)

Diary of the Centennial Exhibition (1876)

Friday
27 Apr 07

Review Day          

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Monday
30 Apr 07

Final Exam for 11:30 Section

10:45-12:45 in the classroom

Wednesday
2 May 07

Final Exam for 10:30 Section

8:30-10:30 in the classroom