U.S. History I

 

COURSE INTRODUCTION
 

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

RESEARCH PROJECT
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Research Guidelines
v Research Proposal
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Research Report

 

The Declaration of Independence
 


COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA
 

Drafting the Declaration of Independence

X Christopher Columbus Letter
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Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
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Bartolomé de Las Casas
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Richard Hakluyt
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John Smith
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William Bradford
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John Winthrop
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Andrew White
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James Oglethorpe
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PPT: The Background for Colonization
X PPT: Motives for British Colonization
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Spanish, French, and English Settlement
X What Historians Say About Columbus
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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
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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 
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The First Party System 
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The Jeffersonian Presidency 
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The Quest for a Republican Society 
X In Pursuit of Happiness 
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Foreign Entanglements 
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Economic Development 
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Changes in the Social Structure 
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Maintaining the Balance of Power 
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The Rise of Popular Politics 
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The Jacksonian Presidency 
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The Second Party System 
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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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