U.S. History I

  

COURSE INTRODUCTION
 

X ANNOUNCEMENT - PLEASE READ
 X Syllabus-Fall 2008
 X How Would You Do?
 X Guidelines for Source Analysis
 X Transformational Learning Experiences
 X How to Recognize a Culture of Peace
 X Skills Analysis Worksheet
 X History as an Academic Discipline
X Personal Course Objectives
 X A Crossroads in History

RESEARCH PROJECT
X Research Guidelines
v Research Proposal
 X Research Report

 

The Declaration of Independence
 

COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
 
Drafting the Declaration of Independence

X Christopher Columbus Letter
 X Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
 X Bartolomé de Las Casas
 X Richard Hakluyt
 X John Smith
 X William Bradford
 X John Winthrop
 X Andrew White
X James Oglethorpe
 X PPT: The Background for Colonization
 X PPT: Motives for British Colonization
 X Spanish, French, and English Settlement
 X What Historians Say About Columbus
 X The Southern Colonies: Virgina
 X The New England Colonies: Puritans of Mass.
 X A Model of Christian Charity
 X The Middle Colonies: Quakers of PA
 X PPT: William Penn's Holy Experiment
 X The Enlightenment
 X The Great Awakening
 X The Imperial Problem
 X The Western Problem & National Character
 X The Problem of Colonial Taxation
 X The American Revolution
 

THE NEW REPUBLIC AND DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS
 

X Creating Republican Institutions 
 X The Constitution of 1787 
 X Ratification of the Constitution 
 X The Myth of the Greedy Founders 
 X Establishing a New Government 
 X The First Party System 
 X The Jeffersonian Presidency 
 X The Quest for a Republican Society 
 X In Pursuit of Happiness 
 X Foreign Entanglements 
 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 The Second Party System 
 X People's Century: God Fights Back                 
 

THE CIVIL WAR ERA
 

X The Second Great Awakening
X Film: Reforming the Republic
 X PPT: Pre-Civil War America
 X The Industrial North
 X The Agrarian South
X Issues Dividing the Nation
 X Sectional Conflict and Compromise Wkst
 X Manifest Destiny
 X Maintaining the Balance of Power
 X The Civil War and Reconstruction
 v PPT: The Civil War and Reconstruction
 
 

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