Course+Schedule

(From a collection of books created by the instructor and the media center director, each student selected a book to read during the summer that was relevant to and appropriate for the time period covered during the fall semester.) Discussion/written prompts concerning the summer reading include, but are not limited to: Text chapter 5 and 6 __Rise to Rebellion__ – pages 3-108 Generalizations: Apply these generalizations to the discussion of completed text reading (chapters 1-6) regarding the exploration and colonization of the New World, particularly North America. Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o Origin and development of the major Indian cultures of the Americas o Developments in Europe and Africa that led to the discovery/colonization of the New World o Factors leading to English colonization of North America o Similarities and differences among the southern colonies, middle colonies, and New England colonies o Reasons/causes of emigration from England to North America o Change in relations between the English colonists and Indians origins of slavery in the English North American colonies o Social life and population structures of the 17th century colonies / compare with 18th century o Causes and effects of the Great Awakening o Colonial politics in the 18th century o France v. Great Britain for control of North America o Impact/effects of the French and Indian war on British-colonial relations
 * COURSE SCHEDULE: **
 * WEEK 1: Summer reading and introduction to the course **
 * // Assigned reading //** : Text Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4
 * What did you learn from this reading about the person/event that was the subject of the book you read?
 * To what extent did the book change your perception of the person/event that was the subject of the book you read?
 * If you read a biography, what problems/crises did the subject of the biography face and how did he/she deal with adversity?
 * Apply the generalization, “Historical events are often the result of a variety of contributing factors” to the event(s) described in the book you read.
 * Apply the generalization, “Historical events are often the result of luck, fate, chance, coincidence” to the event(s) described in the book you read.
 * WEEK 2: Historical “generalizations” **
 * // Assigned reading: //**
 * Historical events will not occur without the proper background.
 * Historical events are often the result of a variety of contributing factors.
 * Historical events are sometimes/often the result of luck, fate, chance, or superstition.
 * Historical events sometimes/often result in unintended consequences.
 * Events originally failures or successes sometimes prove otherwise in the long run.
 * For historical events to occur means, motive, and opportunity are often present.

// Assigned reading // :
Text chapter: 7 – “The Road to Revolution” __Rise to Rebellion__ – pages 108-257 Documents: - [|__Edmund Burke speech on conciliation with America, March 22__] - Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death - John Dickinson, "The Declaration on Taking up Arms," July 8

Begin the discussion of the causes of and events leading to the American Revolution.
Introduce the term “mercantilism” and discuss its meaning and application of as applied to the colonial and revolutionary era in North America. Conduct an evaluated discussion concerning pages 3-108 of __Rise to Rebellion.__ Prompts for this evaluated discussion are designed to probe the students’ reading and understanding of the assigned pages. A few __sample__ prompts: From the reading in __Rise to Rebellion:__ Massacre.” Why might lead you to believe/speculate that the “event” was planned? Adams and Sam Adams Britain?
 * What is meant by the title: __Rise to Rebellion__?
 * Describe the scene and the events of what is referred to as the “Boston
 * Why was there such resentment to the British troops in Boston?
 * Describe the difference in the attitudes regarding the colonies of John
 * Describe the effects of distance between GB and the colonies - a barrier not a bridge.
 * What were the questions Adams ask regarding the situation with Great
 * Describe Dr. Franklin’s experience in Ireland. How did it change his views? What did he see and learn? Conclusions he drew?
 * Explain the changes in British policy as a reaction to the “Gaspee.”
 * Discuss John Adams’ speech at the meeting – how had his views changed and what were the reasons for the change? How did argue his point?

Text chapters 6 and 7 – “The Road to Revolution” – discussion
Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o The deeply rooted historical factors that moved America toward independence from Britain o The British attempts to tighten control of the colonies and colonial resistance to such attempts o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Deterioration of relations between the colonies and Great Britain, including events reflecting that deterioration o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> A comparison of forces as both sides prepare for war

Text chapter 8 –“America Secedes from the Empire”
__ Rise to Rebellion: __ pages 257-400 Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Text of the “Declaration of Independence” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Excerpts from Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss the concept of “revolution” and the basic pattern of revolution. Create a political continuum and apply it to the American Revolution. o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss what was “new, unique, different” about the American Revolution. o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Have read and be prepared to analyze the “Declaration of Independence” Analysis will be based on the questions that were distributed in advance to students. __ Rise to Rebellion __** : pages 400 to end ** Document: “Treaty of Paris, 1783” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How America moved from initial military engagements against the British, even while proclaiming loyalty, to declaring its independence o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Tories v. Rebels – why some Americans remained loyal to Britain and their fate after the Revolution o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Significance of the Battle of Saratoga o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss the military and political obstacles Washington and his generals had to overcome before victory at Yorktown o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss the terms of the Treaty of Paris, how the United States was able to achieve such a diplomatic victory
 * WEEK 5 ** : **The American Revolution (1763-1789)**
 * // Assigned reading: //**

First essay exam: sample draft prompt
The final section of text chapter 8 is titled “A New Nation Legitimized.” Discuss the arguments made by patriot leaders as to the reasons a new nation should come into existence, while describing some of the factors/events that permitted the patriots to successfully fight and win the Revolutionary War, and explaining how the military victory, coupled with the Treaty of Paris, did in fact legitimize that “new nation.” In other words, how did the Americans move from arguing/saying they had created a new nation to proving that, in fact, they had done so?

WEEK 6: The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution
Text pages: 174-195 Document: “The Articles of Confederation” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss**:** o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The political and social movement toward “equality” that flourished o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> After the revolution and why certain social and political inequalities remained in place o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The achievements, failures, and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The impact of Shay’s Rebellion and the causes leading to the call for a convention
 * Assigned reading: **
 * WEEK 7: The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution **

Text pages: review 174-194
Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Federalist” #’s 10, 51, 78 -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> __ The Northwest Ordinance __ From “The American Spirit” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Thomas Jefferson Favors Rebellion” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “The Debate on Representation in Congress” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “The Argument over Slave Importations” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Founders, their intentions, and the fundamental principles they o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Incorporated into the Constitution o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The debate over ratification of the Constitution – Federalists v Anti-Federalists o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The “Federalist Papers” and their impact upon ratification Second Essay Exam: Sample draft prompt: The principal problems faced by the colonists in their relations with the Mother Country between 1763-1776 reappeared as problems in the state/federal relations under the Articles of Confederation (1780-1789). Describe three of those problems, explain how the Confederation attempted to solve them, and how they were addressed in the Constitution. Assigned reading: Text pages: 199-221, 224-246, and 248-270 Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 1793 April 22, The Proclamation of Neutrality -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 1793 Alexander Hamilton, "Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States " -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 1797, Washington's Farewell Address -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> [|__1798 - The Sedition Act__] -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 1798 July 6, The Alien Act – An Act Respecting Alien Enemies -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Virginia Resolutions -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Kentucky Resolutions -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Marbury v. Madison” and other selected cases from the Marshall Court -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Monroe Doctrine
 * WEEK 8: Beginnings for the New Nation (1790-1820) **

From “The American Spirit”
-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “President Madison’s Fateful War Message (1812)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “The Hartford Convention Fulminates (1814)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “John Quincy Adams Reproaches the Hartfordites (1815)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “James Monroe Warns the European Powers (1823) -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Prince Metternich is Miffed (1824)” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The significance of Washington and his presidency o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Hamilton’s financial program o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Formation of the first political parties o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Effects of the French Revolution on American foreign policy o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The reasons for and effects of the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Federalists v. Republicans o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Revolution of 1800” o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Jefferson’s foreign policy goals o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The causes and effects of the Louisiana Purchase o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How the United States became entangled in the international crisis of the Napoleonic Wars o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The causes and results of the War of 1812, terms of the Treaty of Ghent o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why the United States thought the War of 1812 was a victory and why there was an upsurge in nationalism o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The tariff issue o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Era of Good Feelings” – accurate of misnomer o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Missouri Compromise – terms and conflict o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Marshall Court and how it promoted the spirit of nationalism through its rulings in favor of federal power. o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> American foreign policy and the significance of the Monroe Doctrine

Text pages: 272-303
“Democracy in America” pages: 188-197, 315-326 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Some discussion topics from __Democracy in America__ may include: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Describe the difference(s) de Tocqueville observed between political parties? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> What does de Tocqueville write as to the nature of parties and factions? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How does de Tocqueville describe small parties? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> According to de Tocqueville, what were the two great parties in U.S. History? Compare and contrast. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain why the Federalists prevailed from 1789-1801? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain the significance of the election of 1800 -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> According to de Tocqueville, why was the period of Federalist power one of the luckiest events in the birth of the United States? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> De Tocqueville argues that “today” there are no great parties but many that threaten the future of the Union. Explain. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain what de Tocqueville means when he writes that one does not know whether to pity the Americans for “such trifles” or envy the luck enabling them to do so. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain de Tocqueville’s point that describes president Jackson’s attack on the bank of the United States. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> According to de Tocqueville, what causes existed to maintain the United States as a democratic republic? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why was the “influence of law” such a positive factor in the United States observed by de Tocqueville? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> To what extent did de Tocqueville aggress or disagree with the major points made in Federalist #10? Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Confessions of Nat Turner -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Jackson’s Veto of the Bank of the United States -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Henry Clay’s Speech on the Bank Veto -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Jackson’s Proclamation Regarding Nullification -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Worster v. Georgia” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Constitution of the Anti-Slavery Society -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Andrew Jackson on the Necessity of Indian Removal -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  [|Ralph Waldo Emerson, //The Transcendentalist//] -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Elizabeth M. Stanton, The Seneca Falls Declaration From “The American Spirit” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Senator Hayne Advocates Nullification (1830  -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  “Andrew Jackson Denounces Nullification (1832)”  -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  “Jackson Endorses the Indiana Removal (1829)”  Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss:  o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  de Tocqueville’s observations o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The “New Democracy” of the 1820’s and 1830’s (Jacksonian Democracy) o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The effects of the election of 1824 – weakening Adams and setting the stage for Jackson o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Political innovations of the 1830’s: conventions, rise of mass parties o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Jackson’s policies regarding the Indian tribes of the southeast o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “War on the Bank” o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Causes and effects of the Panic of 1837 o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Reform movements of this era o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Early American achievements in the arts and sciences o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> American literature of the early 19th century ** The debate over the relationship between the States and the federal government AND over the principles of intervention and nullification began with the struggle to ratify the Constitution and continued through the period 1781-1829. Evaluate the validity of this statement using the following excerpts from documents and your knowledge and understanding of the era. Cite documents by their titles.
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WEEK 10: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy
Text pages: 396-414 “Democracy in America” pages: 384-412 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Some discussion topics from __Democracy in America__ may include: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> As he begins in Ch. 18, how does de Tocqueville describe the Negro and the Indian? What does he mean “but they have mixed without combining, and each follows a separate destiny” and “only their misfortunes are alike?” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How does de Tocqueville specifically describe the “current situation” of the Indians? Why does he conclude the “Indian race is doomed to perish?” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> What were the differences in mores between the Indians and the white European settlers? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why did de Tocqueville conclude the Indians will never become “civilized?” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> What does de Tocqueville have to say regarding the circumstances by which conquered people and their conquerors may/may not merge? Why is it significant that “the Indians misfortune had been to come into contact with the most civilized nation in the world, and …the greediest?” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss George Washington’s advice concerning the treatment of the Indians? To what extent did the government follow that advice? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> What points were made by the Cherokees in their to Congress? Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Congressional Resolution for Texas Annexation -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Oregon Treaty -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Declaration of War with Mexico -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> de Tocqueville’s observations o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The “spirit” of Manifest Destiny that inspired expansionism in the 1840’s o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> American anti-British feelings and conflicts over debts, Maine, Canada, Texas, and Oregon o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Controversy regarding Texas o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Issues of Oregon and Texas in the 1844 election – Polk’s victory a mandate for “Manifest Destiny” o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Causes of and effects from the Mexican War, particularly regarding the slavery question
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WEEK 11: The South and the Slave Controversy
Text pages: 372-393 “Democracy in America” pages: 412-442 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Some discussion topics from __Democracy in America__ may include: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why it is harder to abolish slavery and obliterate its traces in the modern that in the ancient world. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> In the United States prejudice of the Whites against the Blacks seems to increase in proportion as slavery is abolished. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The situation of the Negro in the northern and in the southern states. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why the Americans abolish slavery. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Slavery, which debases the slave, impoverishes the master. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss the contrasts between the left and right banks of the Ohio. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The explanation as to why the Black race, as well as slavery, was concentrated toward the south. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The difficulties preventing the southern states from abolishing slavery. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why the Americans of the south, although they feel disgust from slavery, increase its rigors. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why de Tocqueville argued “the most formidable evil threatening the future of the United States is the presence of blacks on their soil.” Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Frederick Law Olmstead, “A Journey Through the Seaboard States” From “The American Spirit”: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Daniel Webster is Critical (1850)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Hinton Helper’s Banned Book (1857)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “James Hammond Proclaims Cotton King (1858)” Selected articles from “Slavery Defended” and “Slavery Attacked” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> de Tocqueville’s observations o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Economic strengths and weaknesses of the “Cotton Kingdom” o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The “peculiar institution” – its effects on both blacks and whites o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The growth of the abolitionist movement in the North o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The southern response to abolitionism and the defense of slavery as a “positive good”
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WEEK 12: Sectional Struggle and Disunion
Assigned reading: Text pages: 416-435, 437-459 “Democracy in America” pages: 442-504 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Some discussion topics from __Democracy in America__ may include: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How does de Tocqueville argue, “The future of the Republic should not be confused with that of the Union?” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How does de Tocqueville “describe” or “define” a Republic, as it exists in the United States? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How does de Tocqueville argue, “It would be equally difficult for the principle of monarchy to sink into American mores?” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why does de Tocqueville think that Republic will survive? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How does de Tocqueville explain his observation that the Americans will be a “great seagoing people?” What conditions existed to support his contention? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How does de Tocqueville argue that even a break-up of the Union would not stop the Americans from being commercial and seagoing? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> What are de Tocqueville’s conclusions? There are several. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Using your textbook, define Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis” and how the west would act as a “safety-valve?” Where do you find de Tocqueville’s reference or allusion to this concept? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> What was de Tocqueville's most prophetic prediction? Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Harriet Beecher Stowe: “Black Potential and the Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Excerpts from Henry Carey, “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Julia Louisa Lovejoy, “Selected Letters from Kansas” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Kansas-Nebraska Act -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Abraham Lincoln Speaks on the Kansas-Nebraska Act -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Charles Sumner, “On the Crime Against Kansas” From “The American Spirit” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Southerners Threaten Secession (1849)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “John Calhoun Defends Southern Rights (1850)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Daniel Webster Urges Concessions (1850)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Free-Soilers Denounce Webster (1850)” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Effects of the issue of extending slavery into the territories acquired as a result of the Mexican War on national politics during the late 1840’s and early 1850’s o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Terms of the Compromise of 1850, how it attempted to deal with the issues of slavery, and why it was called “The Final Settlement” o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Pierce administrations various pro-southern overseas and expansionists ventures o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Stephen Douglas’s Kansas-Nebraska Act and why it took sectional controversy to new heights Discuss the impact of the issues of slavery and Manifest Destiny as related to the observation that by the middle of the decade of the 1850’s the United States was “drifting toward disunion.”
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WEEK 13: The Nation Divides
Assigned reading: Text pages: 462-479 __Gods and Generals__: Introduction and Chapters 1-12 ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> After reading __Gods and Generals__, one should be able to: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss the main characters and explain their roles -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Demonstrate an understanding of the major events described in the book. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss what one learns from __God and Generals__ that leads to a better understanding of the attitudes held by Northerners and Southerners toward the other before the Civil War began and the issues of the time. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain what one learns from __God and Generals__ about warfare and the first two years of the Civil War? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Identify and discuss examples of irony? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss the reasons the soldiers believed were responsible for the coming of the Civil War. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Discuss the role God played in the lives of the generals. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain - with examples from __Gods and Generals__ - the role and influence of the lack/slowness of communication. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain - with examples for __Gods and Generals__ - the role and influence of rumor/fate/luck/chance in events and lives of the participants and events/circumstances beyond the control of the participants. -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain - with examples for __Gods and Generals__ - the role and influence of the generals. Why is __Gods and Generals__ an appropriate title for the novel? What is meant by “There is nothing like God on earth than a general on a battlefield.”? -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Explain - with examples for __Gods and Generals__ - of what the reader is informed and learns regarding the nature and conduct of war. Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Scott vs. Sanford,” The Dred Scott Case -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> William Seward, “The Irrepressible Conflict” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Democratic Platform, 1860 (Douglas Faction) -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Democratic Platform, 1860 (Breckinridge Faction) -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Republican Platform, 1860 -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Lincoln’s “Cooper Union Address” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Ordinances of Secession (Ex: South Carolina, Texas,   -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">  Mississippi, and Georgia
 * Be prepared to: **

From “The American Spirit”
-<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Stephen Douglas Opposed Black Citizenship (1858)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Abraham Lincoln Denies Black Equality (1858)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Fire-Eaters Urge Secession (1860)” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “The North Resents Threats (1860)” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Assigned reading from __Gods and Generals__ o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The sequence of events or crises from the Kansas-Nebraska Act to the secession o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> How “Bleeding Kansas” was a “dress rehearsal” for the Civil War o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The growing influence of the Republican party and the increasing divisions within the democratic Party o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Impact/effects of the Dred Scott Decision and John Brown’s Raid in deepening the sectional antagonism o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Lincoln and no expansion of slavery into the territories o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Election of 1860 o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Secession and the failure of the final effort to compromise o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Why the war came and the breaking of the major “common bonds” Assigned reading: Text pages: 481-494 __Gods and Generals__: Chapters 13-23 Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Lincoln’s First Inaugural” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “The Emancipation Proclamation” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Homestead Act -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Pacific Railway Act -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Albert Underwood’s Civil War Diary -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Ex Parte Merryman” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> “Ex Parte Milligan” Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Assigned reading from __Gods and Generals__ o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Effects of the firing on Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s call for volunteers o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> On solidifying both sides for war o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Strengths and weaknesses of both sides o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Basic strategies of the Union and Confederacy to win the war o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Significance of the Border States o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Wartime diplomacy o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Compare and contrast the political leadership of Lincoln and Davis o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Civil liberties during the war o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Economic and social consequences of the war for both sides
 * Week 14 – The Civil War **

WEEK 15: The Civil War
Assigned reading: Text pages: 494-502 __Gods and Generals__: Chapters 24-40 Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> ** “ ** The Gettysburg Address” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Lincoln’s Proclamation on the Wade-Davis Bill Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Assigned reading from __Gods and Generals__ o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Reasons for the failure of the North to win an expected early victory o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Significance of Antietam, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The decision by the Union to pursue “totals war” o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Role of African-Americans during the war o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Election of 1864 o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Factors leading to an ultimate Union victory o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Significance of the Lincoln assassination o<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Consequences/results/effects of the Civil War 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> In his remarks at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered an address quite comparable in tone and structure to Pericles "Funeral Oration." Discuss these comparisons AND relate Lincoln's message regarding the Civil War. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The content of the documents studied in class - the declarations of secession by South Carolina and Texas, the speech by Robert Rhett, "The Irrepressible Conflict" by William Seward, and Lincoln's "First Inaugural" - are indicative of the differing opinions during the time just before the commencement of armed hostilities. Using these documents as the basis for you response, and citing from them, discuss the varying opinions present at the time just prior to the beginning of the American Civil War. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The outcome of the American Civil War was decided by a variety of factors, many of which can be seen as economic, political, and military. Using specific examples from the reading in your text, discuss the influence of these three factors in determining the outcome of the war. **WEEK 16: The End of the Civil War and beginning of Reconstruction** Assigned reading: Text pages: 502-523 __Gods and Generals__: Chapters 41-55 Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The Civil Rights Act, 1866 -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Johnson’s Proclamation of Amnesty -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Treaty with the Cheyenne and Arapaho -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Report on the Joint commission on Reconstruction -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Texts of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: Assigned reading: Text reading: 523-532 Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Frederick Douglass, “Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage” -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Russian Treaty, 1867 -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Fort Laramie Treaty -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Third Reconstruction Act, 1867 -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Tenure of Office Act -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Articles of Impeachment, 1868 Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: Assigned reading: Text pages: 529-530, 532, 538-539, 541-543 Documents: -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Grant’s First Inaugural -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Second Civil Rights Act, 1873 -<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Organization and Principles of the Ku Klux Klan Some topics for which students are to be prepared to discuss: 1.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Excerpts from two book reviews of __Gods and Generals__ read that the novel, “describes the interconnected paths that brought these men together….” and “….mortal men forced to make crucial decisions and survive on the same battlefield….” and “….characters who were forced to decide their loyalties amid the horrors of a divided nation…..” Write a narrative reflecting the entirety of the novel, using examples from throughout the book, that focuses on those “interconnected paths,” those “crucial decisions,” and those who were “forced to decide their loyalties” in describing the complexities affecting soldiers’ lives during the Civil War. 2.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> Four documents relating to Abraham Lincoln were analyzed for this assessment: Lincoln’s “First Inaugural, “The Gettysburg Address,” The Emancipation Proclamation,” and Lincoln’s “Second Inaugural.” Citing from all four documents, discuss Lincoln’s view of the nature of the Civil War, its causes, and what he intended (for the nation, for the soldiers, for the people, for the government) the outcome of the war to accomplish. 3.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> The era of the American Civil War and Reconstruction produced two great “battles;” one, a military conflict between North and South and second, a political struggle between the executive and legislative branches for control of Reconstruction. **From textbook reading and class notes/discussion:** Discuss how/why the North won the military conflict and how/why the Radical Republicans prevailed in the political “battle.” Be certain to include in your response what the results were of each “battle.”
 * Essay exam: sample prompts: **
 * Assigned reading from __Gods and Generals__
 * Major problems facing both North and South after the Civil War
 * Responses to the end of slavery (white and African-American)
 * Differences between presidential and congressional approaches to Reconstruction
 * “Let ‘em up easy,” vs. “State-suicide” and “conquered provinces”
 * Reasons for and effects of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
 * WEEK 17: Reconstruction **
 * Reasons for the “victory” for Radical Reconstruction, Johnson’s blunders and the “mistakes” of the white South
 * Effects of congressional reconstruction on the South
 * Process of impeachment and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson
 * WEEK 18: Reconstruction **
 * How militant white opposition gradually undermined the Republican attempt to empower Southern Blacks.
 * Legacy of Reconstruction – success and failures
 * Purchase of Alaska
 * Significance of the completion of the transcontinental railroad
 * Elections of 1868, 1872, and 1876
 * Essay exam: sample prompts: **