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History
1877 The
Fall
2005
Department
of History,
James This edition contains study
questions that will be helpful when you prepare for the examinations. Steven Mintz; Huck’s Raft: A History of
American Childhood Class 1. August 23:
Introduction to the Class Class 2, August 25: The Columbian Exchange Topics: The World in 1492 The First Americans Why 1492 is the Most Significant Date in Modern World
History Spanish, French, and English colonization Class 3, August
30: Shakespeare’s England Topics: Mercantilism Enclosure
Class 4,
September 1: America’s Colonial Legacies, 1: Slavery Topics: Colonizing Indentured
Servitude Bacon’s
Rebellion Slavery
and the Making of the Modern World Class 5, September 6:
Topics: Puritanism
as a Revolutionary Movement Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of
Capitalism From Puritan to Yankee The Great Awakening Class 6, September 8:
The Roots of Revolution Topics: Long-Term
and Short-Term Causes of the Revolution The Seven Years War The Imperial Crisis
Class 7, September 13:
The Revolutionary War Topics: Who Fought the Revolution? African Americans in the Revolution How the Class 8,
September 15: The First New
Nation Topics: The
Articles of Confederation The Constitution and
the Bill of Rights The The
Presidencies of George Washington & John Adams The Alien and Sedition Acts Class 9, September 20:
Jeffersonian Republicanism Topics: The
Revolution of 1800 War Against the Judiciary The The
War of 1812 Class 10,
September 22: The More Than
Industrial Revolution Topics: Urbanization
The Changing Family Transformations in Women’s Roles and
Status Class 11, September 27:
Review
Class 12,
September 29: First Examination
Class 13, October
4: P.T.
Barnum and the Birth of American Popular Culture
Topics: A General Tom Thumb The
Greatest Show on Earth Class 14, October
6: Evangelical
Revivalism Topics: Religion and the Nation’s Founders The Second Great Awakening The American System of
Religion
Charles Grandison Finney
The Legacy
of the Revivals Class 15, October
11: American Transcendentalism Topics: Ralph
Waldo Emerson Henry
David Thoreau Walden Civil
Disobedience Class 16, October
13: Birth of the American Reform
Tradition Topics: Moral Reform Social
Reform The Problem of Crime
in a Free Society
Class 17, October
18: Radical Reform Topics: Abolition Women’s
Rights Utopian
Socialism Class 18, October
20: Slavery and the Slave South Topics: The
South as a Slave Society Slavery in a Capitalist World To Be a Slave The World that Slaves Made Class 19, October
25: The Age of Topics: Political Democratization Clearing
the The
Trail of Tears The
Seminole and Black Hawk Wars Nullification The
Celebrated Bank War Class 20, October
27: The Topics: The
The
Fate of Tejanos Class 21, November
1: Conquest of the West Topics: The
Collision of Cultures in the The Mexican War Visualizing
the The West of the Imagination Class 22, November
3: Hispanic Topics: Zorro and Social Banditry Land Loss Resistance Class 23, November
8: Immigrant Themes: The
Beginning of Mass Immigration Irish Americans German Americans Nativism Class 24, November
10: Crisis of the 1850s Topics: The Crisis of 1850 The Know Nothings The Fugitive Slave Law The Kansas-Nebraska Act The Dred Scott Decision John Brown’s Raid Class 25, November
15: Civil War Topics: The Secession Crisis A War to Preserve the A
War to Abolish Slavery Total
War Who
Freed the Slaves? A Second American Revolution Class 27, November
17: Reconstruction Topics: Presidential Reconstruction Congressional
Reconstruction Reconstruction
in the South The
End of Reconstruction The
Compromise of 1877 Sharecropping Class 28, November
22: The Triumph of a New Industrial
Order Topics:
American History in Comparative
Perspective The Three-Ringed Circus Winners and Losers The
Great Railroad Strike The
Molly Maguires
November 24:
Thanksgiving Class 29, November
29: Review Class 30, December
1: Second Examination
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