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W    8/24        Introduction

F    8/26        Causes of European Expansion                                          Lecture 1 Outline                           
                      Readings:  Boydston, Making a Nation, 1-21
                      Documents:  1-2, Columbus
                      Links: Guide for Reading Primary Sources
                                  Map of the Age of Exploration           HW1
                      Handout:  Trade Winds Map

M    8/29        First Contact & Colonial Outposts                                       Lecture 2 Outline
                       Readings:  Boydston, Making a Nation, 24-44
                       Documents:  1-10, Thomas Harriot.
                       Links:  Virtual Jamestown Images                HW2
                                  Native Settlement Near Jamestown
                       Optional: For more DeBry Copper Plate Engravings
                       Handout: Maps: European Invasions of Indian North America
                                                Indian Peoples of the Eastern Woodlands
                                               
                                                                                                    
I.  Colonial America  (How "American" was colonial America?)

W    8/31        Discussion: "Invasion, Discovery, or Encounter"?
                       Documents:  1-2, Columbus; 1-3, Cabez de Vaca; 1-4, Cartier*; 1-5, Las Casas; 1-7, Oñate*;
                            1-8, Founding of St. Augustine; 1-9, Columbian Exchange*; 1-10, Harriot*; 1-11, Acosta. 
                       NOTE: Focus on thoroughly understanding those documents marked with a star, but all are eligible
                            for discussion.
                       Links:   Guide for Reading Primary Sources
                                  Hints for Invasion, Discovery, or Encounter? Discussion

F    9/2        Chesapeake Society                                                        Lecture 3 Outline
                    Readings:  Boydston, Making a Nation, 46-68.
                    Link:  First Settlements on Eastern Coast of North America
                    Handouts: Pocahontas Portrait
                                         Colonial Buildings - Material Evidence of Hierarchy
                    ARGUMENT PAPER DUE IN CLASS
  
M    9/5        LABOR DAY       

W    9/7        Open -- Individual Meetings

F    9/9        Open -- Individual Meetings 

M    9/12        DISCUSSION: Puritan New England Family Life
                       Readings: Demos, Unredeemed Captive
                       Link:  Hints for Demos Discussion
                       Response Papers Due in Class

W    9/14        The Middle and Lower South Colonies                            Lecture 4 Outline
                        Documents:  3-6, William Penn
                        Links:  Map of Dutch Trading Empire  

F    9/16        Slavery in Colonial America                                Lecture 5 Outline
                      Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 99-104.
                      Links:  Map of the Slave Trade     
                      REWRITES DUE       

M    9/19        European-Indian Relations                            Lecture 6 Outline
                       Documents: 3-9, The Storm Rising
                       Links:  Map of 1763 Proclamation Line   
                       (scroll down the page and view the map)
                       Handout:  Map: Areas of Control

W    9/21        Enlightenment in the Atlantic World            Lecture 7 Outline
                        Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 105-121
                        Documents:  3-8, Manners and Etiquette
                  
                       
F    9/23        EXAM # 1
 

II.  Revolutionary America   (How "radical" was the American Revolution?)

M    9/26        Coming of the Revolution                                    Lecture 8 Outline
                       Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 123-148.
                       Documents:  4-4, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
                       Link:  Map of the Thirteen Colonies in 1775

W    9/28        Deciding on Independence                                Lecture 9 Outline
                        Readings:  Boydston, Making a Nation, 150-161.
                        Documents:  5-7, Joseph Warren

F    9/30        Revolutionary War                                                Lecture 10 Outline
                      Documents:  5-10, The Rise of Partisan Warfare in the South

M    10/3        Why the Constitution?                                           Lecture 11 Outline                                       
                       Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 161-177.
                       Documents: 6-4, Henry Knox.                                     

W    10/5        Federalist America                       Lecture 12 Outline
                        Links:  Lansdown Portrait of George Washington  HW3 extra credit (due Monday, Oct. 17, in class)
                                         (by Gilbert Stuart, 1796) 

F    10/7        Popular Politics in Opposition     Lecture 13 Outline
                      Readings:  Boydston, Making a Nation, 178-200.
                      Documents: 7-5, Opposing Views of the Republic                     

M    10/10        Slavery in Post-Revolutionary America        Lecture 14 Outline

W    10/12        From Republican Motherhood to the Cult of Domesticity                Lecture 15 Outline

F    10/14        FALL BREAK

M    10/17        Discussion: Gender and Sentiment in the Early Republic 
                         Readings: Jabour, Marriage in the Early Republic    Cancelled (book unavailable)
                         Link:   Hints for Preparing for Discussion
                                    Hints for Jabour Discussion
                         Response Papers Due in Class 

W    10/19        America's Empire for Liberty                            Lecture 16 Outline
                         Readings:  Boydston, Making a Nation, 201-224.
                         Documents:  8-10, Indian Hostilities
                         Links: A Scene on the Frontiers as Practiced by the Humane British . . .  (Click on Browse, Click on
                         1810-1819 at top, print of this title should be the first one you see.)  HW4

F    10/21        EXAM # 2
 

III.  Jacksonian America  (How "democratic was Antebellum America?)

M    10/24        The New American West                      Lecture 17 Outline
                         Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 225-248.
                         Documents: 9-1, The Western Country

W    10/26        The Market Revolution                                        Lecture 18 Outline
                          Documents: 9-9, The Harbinger; 9-10, James Fenimore Cooper

F    10/28        The Making of Jacksonian Democracy                Lecture 19 Outline
                         Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 249-269

M    10/31        Jacksonian Democracy in Practice                        Lecture 20 Outline
                         Document: 10-7, Bank Veto
                         Link:  Jackson's Inauguration, 1829 (Image)

W    11/2        Discussion: The Perils of Progress
                        Readings: Sheriff, The Artificial River
                        Link:   Hints for Preparing for Discussion
                                      Hints for Sheriff Discussion
                        Response Papers Due in Class

F    11/4        Second Great Awakening                                   Lecture 21 Outline
                      Documents: 11-4, Charles Grandison Finney
                      Links: Images of Camp Meetings   HW5

M    11/7        Reform I: God, Whiskey and Utopia                Lecture 22 Outline  cancelled
                       Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 271-292
                       Documents: 11-5, Temperance.           

W    11/9        Reform II: Abolition and Women's Rights                Lecture 23 Outline
                        Documents: 11-10, Declaration of Sentiments

F    11/11        King Cotton and the Plantation South
                         Video:  Africans in America                 

M    11/14        Discussion: Slave Life in the South  
                         Readings: Douglass, Narrative of a Life of a Slave and
                                            Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
                         Descriptive Paper Due in Class
                         The Description Paper Checklist must be attached to your paper.

W    11/16        EXAM # 3        

IV.  Civil War America  (How "inevitable" was the war between the states?)

F    11/18        Manifest Destiny                    Lecture 24 Outline
                         Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 295-318.
                         Documents:  12-4, John L. Sullivan
                         Links: John Gast's "American Progress" HW6  (NO HOMEWORK ATTACHMENT DUE TO TECHNICAL ERROR)

M    11/21        THANKSGIVING BREAK

W    11/23        THANKSGIVING BREAK

F    11/25        THANKSGIVING BREAK          

M    11/28        1850 and the Politics of Slavery                    Lecture 25 Outline
                         Documents: 14-4, A Dying Statesman     

W    11/30        Secession                                  Lecture 26 Outline
                          Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 319-342.
                          Documents:  15-1, Address to the Provisional Congress     

F    12/2        Civil War                                        Lecture 27 Outline
                      Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 343-368
                      Documents: 15-4, Why They Fought                           

M    12/5        Civil War

W    12/7        Reconstruction
                        Readings: Boydston, Making a Nation, 369-399.

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