U.S. History I

  

COURSE INTRODUCTION
 

X Syllabus - Fall 2010
 X Skills Analysis Worksheet
 X Personal Course Objectives
 X Textbook Evaluation
 X Historians v. American History
X American Principles, Deeds, and Ideals
 X History as an Academic Discipline
 X Guidelines for Source Analysis
X Why Study History?
X PPT: The Historians' Toolbox
 X Video: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
 X A Crossroads in History

The Declaration of Independence
 

COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
 
Drafting the Declaration of Independence

X Protestantism, Capitalism, and Democracy
 X Major Themes in American History
 X PPT: The Background for Colonization
 X PPT: Motives for British Colonization
X It Came in the 1st Ships: Capitalism in America
 X Spanish, French, and English Settlement
 X What Historians Say About Columbus
X DBA: European Exploration
 X The Southern Colonies: Virgina & Slavery
 X Slavery and Freedom: The American Paradox
 X The New England Colonies: Puritans of Mass.
 X A Model of Christian Charity
X Anne Hutchinson is Banished 

X The Legacy of Puritanism

X William Penn’s Holy Experiment

X Research Proposal

X Debate: Tolerance v. Protection
 X The Enlightenment
 X The Great Awakening

X The First Great Awakening

X DBA: The Enlightenment
 X The Imperial Problem
 X The Western Problem & National Character
 X The Problem of Colonial Taxation
 X The American Revolution
X DBA: The American Revolution
 

THE NEW REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS
 

X Creating Republican Institutions 
X PPT: Constitutional Convention
 X PPT: Six Basic Principles of the Constitution 
 X Completing the American Revolution

X Debate: Power of the National Government

X Establishing a New Government 
 X Republican Motherhood
 X First Party System: Federalists v. Republicans

X DBA: Two Competing Political Ideologies
    Incorrect Link: See instead The Early Republic
    (First ten documents  -  through "The Hartford
    Convention")

X The Jeffersonian Presidency 
 X Foreign Entanglements 
X The Jeffersonian Perspective  
X Debate: How Should Americans Treat Land?

X Economic Development 
 X Changes in the Social Structure 
 X Maintaining the Balance of Power 
 X The Rise of Popular Politics 
 X The Jacksonian Presidency 
 X Debate: Who Should Be Allowed to Vote?

THE CIVIL WAR ERA
 

X The Second Great Awakening
X Efforts to Reform Society
 X Debate: Equal Treatment of Women
 X PPT: Pre-Civil War America
 X The Industrial North
 X The Agrarian South
X Issues Dividing the Nation
 X Manifest Destiny
 X Document-Based Analysis: Slave Experience

X PPT: The Civil War and Reconstruction

X The Civil War in Perspective

X Document-Based Analysis: Civil War
 X A New World View
 

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