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| *UNIT ONE: EXPLORATION, CONTACT, AND COLONIZATION |
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Week 1: Aug 29 to Sept 2 | Introduction to Course | week overview
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A. Course Essentials
Reading: Syllabus
Assignment: Introduce yourself
B. Required Assignment
Complete the pre-test | 25 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Sept 2 at midnight |
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Week 2: Sept 3 to Sept 9 | The Creation of Two World | week overview
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A. The Creation of Two Worlds
Reading A: Alfred Crosby, "Pangaea Revisited,” from Ecological Imperialism [ html ]
Reading B: Created Equal, pages 4-6
Video: Human Origins: One Species, Living Worldwide [ video ]
Powerpoint: The Creation of Two Worlds [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
B. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Last 13,000 Years
Reading: Jared Diamond, “Human History . . . for the Last 13,000 Years? ” [ pdf ] [ charts ]
Powerpoint: The World According to Jared Diamond [ pdf ]
Video: Guns Germs and Steel, Episode 2: Conquest [ video ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 1 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Sept 9 at midnight
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Week 3: Sept 10 to Sept 16 | Native Americans, Europeans, and the Contact Experience | week overview
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A. Pre-Contact Native America
Reading A: Created Equal, 6-12
Reading B: William Cronon, "Seasons of Want and Plenty" [ html ]
Powerpoint: The pre-Contact Amerindian World [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
Videos: Teotihuacan [ video ] Aztec [ video ] Cahokia [ video ] Chaco Canyon [ video ]
B. The Age of Columbus
Reading A: Created Equal, 12-18
Reading B: Kevin A. Miller, “Why Did Columbus Sail?” [ pdf ]
Powerpoint: The Age of Columbus [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
Video: Columbus and the Taino [ video ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 2 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Sept 16 at midnight |
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Week 4: Sept 17 to Sept 23 | Spanish Imperialism and the English Delay | week overview
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A. The Spanish Colonial System
Reading: Created Equal, 18-23; 30-36.
Powerpoint: The Spanish Colonial System [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
B. The English at Home and Colonial Stirrings
Reading: Created Equal, 23-28
Powerpoint: The English at Home and Colonial Stirrings, 1485-1603 [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 3 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Sept 21 at midnight
Complete exam 1 | 50 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Sept 23 at midnight |
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*UNIT TWO: ENGLISH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA |
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Week 5: Sept 24 to Sept 30 | Colonial Virginia and the Chesapeake Colonies | week overview
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A. Settlement: Virginia and the Chesapeake Colonies
Reading A: Created Equal, 41-44; 51-54
Reading B: Edmund Morgan, “Jamestown Fiasco” [ pdf ]
Powerpoint: Colonial Virginia [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
B. Development: Virginia and the Chesapeake Colonies
Reading A: Edmund Morgan, Excerpts “Slavery and Freedom” [ pdf ]
Reading B: Created Equal, 72-73; 84-101
Powerpoint: Colonial Virginia [ pdf ] [ video-lecture1 ] [ video-lecture2 ]
Video: Africans in America: The Terrible Transformation [ video ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 4 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Sept 30 at midnight |
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Week 6: Oct 1 to Oct 7 | Colonial Massachusetts and the New England Colonies | week overview
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A. Settlement: Massachusetts and the New England Colonies
Reading A: Created Equal, 44-51
Reading B: Sandra F. VanBurkleo, "Instruments of Seduction: A Tale of Two Women" [ pdf ]
Powerpoint: Colonial Massachusetts [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
B. Development: Massachusetts and the New England Colonies
Reading: Created Equal, 67-81
Powerpoint: Colonial Massachusetts [ pdf ]
Website: Salem Witch Trials [ overview ] [ case of Bridget Bishop ] [ images ]
Video: In Search of History: Salem Witch Trials [ video ] [log in using your SHSU username and password]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 5 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Oct 7 at midnight |
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Week 7: Oct 8 to Oct 14 | Colonial Pennsylvania and the Eighteenth Century | week overview
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A. Settlement and Development: Pennsylvania and the Middle Colonies
Reading: Created Equal, re-read 69-71
Powerpoint: Colonial Pennsylvania [ pdf ]
[ video-lecture ]
B. Eighteenth Century British North America
Reading: Created Equal, 115-135
Powerpoint: Eighteenth Century British North America [ textbook only ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 6 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Oct 12 at midnight
Complete exam 2 | 50 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Oct 14 at midnight |
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| *UNIT THREE: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION |
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Week 8: Oct 15 to Oct 21 | British Colonial Theory & the Origins of the American Revolution | week overview
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A. British Colonial Theory and Practice
Reading A: Created Equal, 58-63; 68 (terms: Louis XIV; mercantilism; navigation acts)
Reading B: Jack Greene, Excerpts, "Preconditions of the American Revolution" [ pdf ]
Powerpoint: British Colonial Theory and Practice [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
B. New British Measures and the Conservative Colonial Stance
Reading: Created Equal, 142-160
Powerpoint: New British Measures and the Conservative Colonial Stance [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
Website: Creating the United States [ html ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 7 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Oct 21 at midnight |
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Week 9: Oct 22 to Oct 28 | The Radical Revolution and War for Independence | week overview
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A. The Radical Revolution and Declaration of Independence
Reading A: Created Equal, 164-169
Reading B: "An Expression of the American Mind" [ pdf ]
Powerpoint: The Radical Revolution [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
Liberty: The American Revolution [ episode II ]
B. The American Revolutionary War
Reading A: Created Equal, 169-188
Handout: Weapons and Tactics of the Revolutionary War [ pdf ] [ html ]
Powerpoint: The Revolutionary War [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
Liberty: The American Revolution [ episode III ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 8 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Oct 28 at midnight |
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Week 10: Oct 29 to Nov 4 | The Confederation Period & Constitutional Settlement of 1787 | week overview
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A. The Confederation Period and Shays' Rebellion
Reading: Created Equal, 189-205
Powerpoint: The Confederation Period [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
B. The Constitutional Convention and Ratification Process
Reading: Created Equal, 206-214
Powerpoint: The Constitutional Convention and Ratification Process [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
Liberty: Are We to Be a Nation, 1783-1788 [ episode VI ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 9 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Nov 2 at midnight
Complete exam 3 | 50 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Nov 4 at midnight |
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| *UNIT FOUR: NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CIVIL WAR |
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Week 11: Nov 5 to Nov 11 | The Federal Era, 1789-1803 | week overview
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A. George Washington's Presidency and the Birth of the First Party System, 1789-1797
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 9
No powerpoint presentation; watch documentary films below.
Documentary Film: Founding Brothers, Episode I [ video ] [ Guiding Questions ]
Documentary Film: Founding Brothers, Episode II [ video ] [ Guiding Questions ]
B. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Elusive Republic
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 9
No powerpoint presentation; watch documentary films below.
Documentary Film: Founding Brothers, Episode III [ video ] [ Guiding Questions ]
Documentary Film: Founding Brothers, Episode IV [ video ] [Guiding Questions ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 10 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Nov 11 at midnight |
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Week 12: Nov 12 to Nov 18| Defending and Expanding the Republic, 1800-1824 | week overview
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A. The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power, 1800-1824
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 10, 242-255
Powerpoint: The Jeffersonian Era [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
B. Africans in America: Brotherly Love, 1791-1831
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 10, 255-259
No powerpoint presentation; watch documentary film below.
Film: Africans in America: Brotherly Love [ video ] [ extra credit questions ] due in dropbox by Nov 18
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 11 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Nov 18 at midnight |
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Week 13: Nov 19 to Nov 25 | The Second Party System, 1824-50 | week overview
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A. The Presidents of the United States, 1825-1849
Reading: Created Equal, chapters 11-12
No powerpoint presentation; watch documentary film below.
Documentary Film: The Presidents, 1825-1849 [ video ]
B. The Differences Between the North & South and Significance of Westward Expansion, 1824-1850
Reading: Created Equal, chapters 11-12
Powerpoint: The Differences Between the North & South and Significance of Westward Expansion [ pdf ]
Video Lecture: The Differences Between the Antebellum North and South [ video-lecture ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 12 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Nov 25 at midnight |
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Week 14: Nov 26 to Dec 2 | The Crisis over Slavery, 1850-1860 | week overview
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A. Africans in America: Judgment Day, 1831-1865
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 13
No powerpoint presentation; watch documentary film below.
Documentary Film: Africans in America: Judgment Day [ video ] [ film outline ]
B. The Slavery Debate During the 1850s
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 13
Powerpoint: The Slavery Debate During the 1850s [ pdf ] [ video-lecture ]
C. Graded Assignment
Complete quiz 13 | 20 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Dec 2 at midnight |
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Week 15: Dec 3 to Dec 9 | The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877 | week overview
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A. The Civil War, 1861-1865
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 14
Powerpoint: The Civil War [ pdf ]
B. Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Reading: Created Equal, chapter 15
Powerpoint: Reconstructing the Union [ pdf ]
C. Graded Assignment
No quiz. This material will be covered on exam 4.
Complete the post-test | 25 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Dec 9 at midnight |
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Week 16: Dec 10 to Dec 14 | Final Exam Week | week overview
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A. Graded Assignment
Complete exam 4 | 50 multiple choice questions | left menu bar | due by Dec 12 at midnight
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