In Class Agendas and Notes 2008-2009
Beginning
Day 1: Introducing the Course and Posing a Sample Problem
Day 2: Beginning the discussion of Significant Individuals
Day 3: Finishing Discussion and Getting Organized
Day 4: Actions and Legacies of Significant Individuals & Extra Notes Part 1 & Part 2
Chapter 1
Day 1: Columbus forshadowing European and Native American conflict
Day 2: Why Africans were so vulnerable to the slave trade
Day 3: Chapter 1 quiz, & factors that stimulated exploration and comparison of French, Spanish and English colonies
Chapter 2
Day 1: A comparison of early New England and the Chesapeake colonies
Day 2: The development of Chesapeake society & notes
Day 3: The development of New England society & notes
Chapter 3
Day 1: The roots of slavery in England and her North American colonies
Day 2: Significance of rebellions & Winthrop v. Penn on liberty
Chapter 4
Day 1: Annotated Bibliographies, James Harrington, & Chapter 4 Essay Question
Day 2: Factors that help colonists consider themselves to be "Americans"
Day 3: The French and Indian War
Chapter 5
Day 1: Early colonial protest, 1763-1770
Day 2: Movement toward war and independence, 1772-1776
Day 3: The American Revolution
Chapter 6
Day 1: Strengths and Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
Day 3: Convention compromises and Federalist #10
Chapter 7
Day 1: Washington, Hamiliton, & Jefferson
Day 2: Politics and the French Revolution
Day 3: XYZ Affair and Alien and Sedition Acts
Chapter 8
Were Jeffersonians strict constructionists?
Chapter 9
Mythological heros and other expressions of nationalism
Various expressions of early nationalism
Chapter 10
Jacksonian Democracy and Democratic Genre Art
Working on the Jacksonian Essay with Documents
Chapter 11
White Southerners' view of themselves and slavery
"Positive Good Theory" of slavery
Angelina Grimke and T.Jefferson on the effect of slavery
Chapter 12
Chapter 13-14
Notes on expansion based on the quiz; map of expansion; Wilmot's Proviso
Notes on the Proviso and the Compromise of 1850
Uncle Tom, Kansas-Nebraska, Bleeding Kansas & Sumner, election of 1856
Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown, and the election of 1860
Spoofing Lincoln's election; South Carolina's ordinance of secession and justification
Chapter 15
Why did they fight and who were these Civil War soldiers?
Portraits of Civil War soldiers
notes on Lincoln's first inaugural address
Jefferson Davis on the war; soldiers and songs; Antietam map
Emancipation, Gettysburg Address, 54th Massachusetts
Chapter 16
The hope and disappointment of Reconstruction
Reconstruction: Revolutionary or Not?
Chapter 17
Turner's Thesis and the Mining Frontier
Prof. Rael's Research Outline; Cowboys and Homesteaders
Chapter 18
The purpose and revolutionary nature of a time-oriented society
Conflicting Visions of America & the significance of Haymarket
Chapter 19
Skyscrapers and tenements: a study in urban contrasts
Progressives (chapters 22 and 23; chapter 21 in the review book)
Muckrakers and their assumptions
Progressive beliefs; Muller v. Oregon
Ashcan painters; Ragtime coversheets
Chapter 24 (chapter 22 in the review book): The Great War
Causes of the European war; popular songs in America raise questions
War a violation of American values?
Mobilization of the War Effort
Chapter 25 (chapter 23 in the review book): The Roaring Twenties
The birthtime of modern America
the Harlem Renaissance (notes)
Harlem Renaissance Power Point
Chapter 26: The Great Depression
Day 1 Agenda and Dorothea Lange photographs
The New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Reform
New Deal pop quiz and a few notes on the DBQ
Chapter 27:The Second World War
American isolationism and why the U.S. finally got involved before Pearl Harbor
Accounts and pics of the war & quiz on key issues
Post WWII America
Truman and post war America/Origins of the Cold War
Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the 50's
Cold War Review Slides #1 and #2
The Sixties
Protest movements inspite of a hopeful beginning
Causes of protest and the significance of Birmingham
The Seventies
Nixon, Watergate, Economic Challenges, Ford, Carter, & Social Changes
The Eighties
Review
Chapters 1 and 2 (early colonization)
Chapters 3 and 4 (shift to being "Americans" & colonial protest)
Chapters 5 and 6 (Revolution, Articles of Confederation, & the Constitution)
Chapters 7 and 8 (Jeffersonian Democracy & Early Nationalism)
Chapters 9 and 10 (sectionalism and Jacksonian Democracy)
Chapters 11 and 12 (reform movements and expansion)
Chapters 13 and 14 (union in peril and the civil war)
Chapters 15 and 16 (reconstruction and lasat west)