Review Sessions:
Fridays,
12noon-1pm, Room 11 UH
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
Jay Goldin
Office: 315UH
Office Hours: 10-11:30 WF
Email: yevgeny.goldin@mavs.uta.edu
Useful Link:
[University of Texas at Arlington
Libraries]
Required Readings:
Interactive Links
Frederick Douglass,
The Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
Optional Readings:
Interactive Links
Cantor, How To Study History
James W. Davidson, ed.
Nation of Nations (Numbers indicated below refer to
relevant chapters)
1) ALL of the required readings and
ALL of
the optional readings, except for Davidson and Cantor,
may be accessed through internet links.
2) The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
can be read on the internet, but
students may wish to purchase this book rather than read
a document of such great length on the web.
3) Internet links can be found on the course web page below.
4) Computer problems or a down system WILL NOT be an acceptable excuse for missed
assignments
or a failure
to be ready for examinations.
BE PREPARED!!!
PLAN AHEAD!!!
DO NOT leave your reading to the last moment, or, if you do, MAKE SURE to have back-up
computer access available.
5) Please remember that the professor cannot accept assignments or give out grades over the internet.
6) See below, Important Information #14, for a list of free campus computer access sites.
| WEEK
|
DATE | TOPIC |
REQUIRED READING |
OPTIONAL READING |
| Week I | Jan. 14 | Introduction | -------------- | 1.Cantor 2.Reading, Writing, and Researching for History: A College Student's Guide |
| Jan. 16 |
The European & African, Roots of the Great Migration |
----------------- | Davidson, 1 | |
|
Jan. 18 |
The Economic and Religious Motivation for the Great Migration |
The Mayflower Compact |
Davidson, 1-3 |
|
| Week II | Jan. 21 | NO CLASS | ------------- | ------------ |
|
Jan. 23 |
The Puritan Community & Its Decline |
1.A
Model of Christian Charity
2.A Witchcraft Indictment (Indictment v. Mary Bradbury, No. 1.) 3.An Accused Witch's Denial (Answer of Mary Bradbury) 4.An Accused Witch's Confession (Confession from Prison of William Barker, Sr.) |
Davidson, 1-3 Cotton Mather's "Memorable Providences" |
|
| Jan. 25 | The Southern Colonies |
Indentured
Servants |
Davidson, 2 & 4 |
|
| Week III | Jan. 28 | The Origins of American Slavery |
1.William
Byrd's Diary 2.Capture 3. The Middle Passage 4. Falconbridge's Description of the Middle Passage 5. Slave Sale Broadside (1774) |
Davidson, 2 & 4 |
| Jan. 30 | EXAMINATION #1 |
Lectures & Required Readings: Jan.16-Jan. 28 |
------------ | |
| Feb. 1 |
Empire Relations: 1663-1763 |
Map of the Colonies (1775) | Davidson, 4 | |
| Week IV | Feb. 4 | America on the Eve of Revolution |
Benjamin
Franklin's Autobiography (Chapter 8, starting with: "Continuation of the Account of my Life . . .") |
Davidson, 4 Crevecoeur's "What is an American" |
| Feb. 6 | The American Revolution: The First Confrontation | Stamp Act Congress Resolutions | Davidson, 5 | |
| Feb. 8 | The Meaning of the American Revolution |
1.The
Resolves of the 1st Continental Congress 2.The Declaration of Independence |
Davidson, 5 & 6 1.Pennsylvania's Act of Gradual Abolition 2.Dunmore's Proclamation Offering Freedom 3.Thomas Paine's Common Sense |
|
| Week V | Feb. 11 | The Confederation | Map of the United States (1790) | Davidson, 7 1.The Articles of Confederation 2.The Northwest Ordinance |
| Feb. 13 | The Constitution |
1.The
Constitution (preamble) 2.Federalist #10 3.George Washington on Slavery |
Davidson, 7 1.The Debates of the Constitutional Convention 2.The Constitution Ratification Debate 3.The Federalist Papers |
|
| Feb. 15 | EXAMINATION #2 |
Lectures & Required Readings: Feb. 1-13 |
------------ | |
| Week VI | Feb. 18 | The Origins of the First Party System |
1.The
Sedition Act 2.Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 (Resolves 1, 2, & 3) |
Davidson, 8 1.Washington's
Proclamation of Neutrality 2.Washington's Farewell Address |
| Feb. 20 | The Election of 1800 | Thomas Jefferson's 1st Inaugural Address | Davidson, 8 & 9 | |
| Feb. 22 | The War of 1812 | President Madison's War Message |
Davidson, 9 The Hartford Convention Resolutions |
|
| Week VII | Feb. 25 | The New Nationalism
& The Market Economy |
Erie Canal (painting) | Davidson, 9&10 |
| Feb. 27 | Jacksonian Democracy | ---------------- | Davidson, 11 Andrew Jackson's Bank Veto |
|
| Mar. 1 | The Whig Opposition and the Second American Party System | The Log Cabin Campaign | Davidson, 11 Henry Clay Responds to the Bank Veto |
|
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| Week VIII | Mar. 4 | Manifest Destiny & Indian Removal |
1.Louisiana
Purchase Map 2.Andrew Jackson Supports Removal 3.A Cherokee Letter of Protest 4.Trail of Tears Map |
Davidson, 11 |
| Mar. 6 | EXAMINATION #3 | Lectures and Required Readings: Feb 18-Mar. 4 | --------------- | |
| Mar. 7 | Contested Empire Lectures | |||
| Mar. 8 | NO CLASS | -------------- | ----------- |
|
| SPRING | VACATION | -------- | ||
| Week IX | Mar. 18 | John Brown: Abolitionist I | ------------- | -------------- |
| Mar. 20 | A Woman's Place | Seneca Falls Declaration | Davidson, 12 | |
| Mar. 22 | The Age of Reform |
------------- |
Davidson, 12 | |
| Week X | Mar. 25 | Slavery Attacked: Abolitionism | William Lloyd Garrison | Davidson, 12 Constitution of the American Antislavery Society, 1833 |
| Mar. 27 | The Identity of the Old South | Douglass, ALL | Davidson, 13 | |
| Mar. 29 |
The Peculiar Institution LAST DAY |
Douglass,
ALL TO DROP |
Davidson, 13 | |
| Week XI | Apr. 1 |
The Slaves REMEMBER |
1.Douglass,
ALL 2.Runaway Reward Notice (1835) MAKE-UP DAY MAY 4 |
Davidson, 13 1.Slave Narratives-- UNC 2.David Walker's Appeal, 1829 3. Frederick Douglass: "The Meaning of July 4th",1852 |
| Apr. 3 | The Slaveholders |
1.Douglass,
ALL 2.John C. Calhoun on Slavery |
Davidson, 13 George Fitzhugh on Slavery |
|
|
Apr. 5 |
EXAMINATION #4
|
Lectures and Required Readings: Mar. 18-Apr. 3
|
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|
| Week XII
|
Apr. 8 |
Slavery Defended: The Missouri Crisis
|
Map of the Missouri Compromise
|
Davidson, 10 |
|
Apr. 10 |
Slavery Defended: Nullification Crisis |
1.South
Carolina's Ordinance of Nullification 2.Andrew Jackson's Proclamation on Nullification (From "The Defects of the Confederation" through "I consider then;" from "On such expositions" through "because it would be a solecism.") |
Davidson, 11 | |
|
Apr. 12 |
John Brown: Abolitionist II JUST 3 WEEKS TO MAKE-UP DAY MAY 3rd |
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|
|
|
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| Week XIII | Apr. 15 | The Annexation of Texas and the War against Mexico | Map of the Texas Republic | Davidson, 14 1.The Inaugural Address of James K. Polk 2.The Annexation of Texas |
| Apr. 17 | The Slavery Extension Issue and the Election of 1848 | The Wilmot Proviso | Davidson, 14 | |
| Apr. 19 | Compromise and Chaos |
1.Map
of the Compromise of 1850 2.John C. Calhoun on the Compromise of 1850 3.The Crisis of 1850 (cartoon) |
Davidson, 14 |
|
|
|
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| Week XIV | Apr. 22 | The Birth of the Republican Party |
1.The Republican Platform of 1856 2.Charles Sumner's Canning, (painting) |
Davidson, 15 1.The Kansas-Nebraska Act 2.Lincoln on Kansas-Nebraska 3.Charles Sumner on Kansas |
| Apr. 24 |
Road to Disunion: Dred Scott & Lecompton |
------------- | Davidson, 15 1.The Dred Scott Decision 2.Lincoln's House Divided Speech 3.The Irrepressible Conflict, William Seward, 1858 |
|
| Apr. 26 |
John Brown's Raid JUST 1 WEEK TO- --MAKE-UP DAY--MAY 3rd UH |
1.John Brown in Court |
Davidson, 15 |
|
| Week XV | Apr. 29 | The Election of Abraham Lincoln | 1.The Republican Platform of 1860 | Davidson, 15 |
| May 1 |
The Southern Insurrection & The War for the Union
|
1.Slavery
Expansion, Charleston Mercury, Feb. 28, 1860 2.The Texas Ordinance of Secession 3.Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address |
Davidson, 15 1.The Democratic |
|
| May 3 |
REVIEW
|
MAKE UP DAY 11UH 1-6PM |
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|
|
FINAL EXAMINATION --- WEDNESDAY---MAY
8TH--8AM-10:30AM
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ATTENDANCE
Regular attendance is STRONGLY recommended. Though regular attendance does not guarantee success in the class, STUDENTS CANNOT DO WELL WITHOUT ATTENDING EVERY LECTURE. Students who miss a class meeting should get notes for the class they miss from a fellow student. If they have any questions about the notes they receive, they should feel free to ask for clarification from either the professor or teaching assistant. Neither teaching assistants or the professor can give out class notes.
CLASS NOTES, LECTURE OUTLINES, AND POWERPOINT SHOWS
ARE NOT POSTED ON THE WEB OR ON "BLACKBOARD."
EXAMINATIONS
Four examinations will be given during the semester.
They will each consist of 33 multiple choice questions and will cover the
lectures and the required reading. Each examination will test knowledge of the
material presented in the period immediately preceding the date of the exam.
Questions for examinations will be drawn
from areas listed in a study guide that will be placed on the web one week before each of the exams take
place.
IN ORDER TO PASS THE CLASS, STUDENTS MUST TAKE EACH OF THE EXAMINATIONS. IF THEY PRESENT A VALID EXCUSE FOR MISSING AN EXAMINATION, THEY MUST MAKE IT UP BY TAKING A "MAKE-UP" EXAM. "MAKE-UP" EXAMINATIONS WILL BE GIVEN ON FRIDAY, MAY 3rd FROM 1PM TO 6PM IN ROOM 11UH. THIS IS THE ONLY TIME EXAMINATIONS CAN BE MADE UP. STUDENTS WHO MISS EXAMINATIONS MUST PLAN TO TAKE "MAKE-UPS" AT THIS TIME. MAKE-UP EXAMINATIONS WILL CONSIST OF ESSAY QUESTIONS. THEY WILL ONLY BE GIVEN TO STUDENTS WHO MISS EXAMS.
EXAMINATION GRADES ARE FINAL. EXAMINATIONS CANNOT BE RETAKEN, DROPED, OR "MADE-UP."
INCOMPLETES ARE NOT GIVEN IN THIS CLASS.
FINAL EXAMINATION
There will be a final examination.
It will cover the lectures and the
required reading since the last examination and will consist of 33 multiple
choice questions. Questions for the final examination will be drawn
from areas listed in a study guide that will be placed on the web one week
before the final examination takes
place.
IN ORDER TO PASS THE CLASS, STUDENTS MUST TAKE THE FINAL EXAMINATION.
INCOMPLETES ARE NOT GIVEN IN THIS CLASS.
GRADING
THE FOUR EXAMINATIONS
AND THE FINAL EXAMINATION ARE REQUIRED.
STUDENTS WHO DO NOT COMPLETE ALL OF THESE REQUIREMENTS WILL NOT PASS THE CLASS.
INCOMPLETES ARE NOT GIVEN IN THIS CLASS.
N0 EXTRA CREDIT IS GIVEN IN THIS
CLASS.
Students are urged to devote all of their class work time to the lectures, the
required readings, and preparation for the exams.
The course grade will be computed as follows:
Four examinations - 20% each = 80%
Final examination = 20%
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1) Course Description:
An introduction to the political,
social, economic, and cultural history of the United States prior to 1865. This
course is designed to help students understand and evaluate their society,
comprehend the historical experience, and further develop reading and writing
competencies and critical skills. The main emphasis of this course is on race
relations, sectional conflict, and the political and economic development of the
new nation.
This
course makes extensive use of the internet.
All required assignments and most optional assignments are web-based.
Internet links give students direct access to a vast collection of
required and optional primary source materials in both graphic and text form.
2) Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to describe, identify, and explain the major trends and events in the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the United States prior to 1865.
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Colonial Period
Revolutionary Period
Early National Period
The Age of Reform
Slavery
Sectional Conflict
Civil War
The
Atlantic Slave Trade (sketch of slaves packed into a trading ship)
The First
Book Printed in the Colonies, 1640 (photograph)
Map of the
World-1507 (Johann Ruysch)
Map of the
New World-1562 (Diego Gutierrrez)
Map of the
Carolinas-1590 (John White)
Map of
Manhattan-1639 (Johannes Vingboons)
The Marriage of
Pocahontas (painting)
Map of North America and
the United States, 1650-1907 (animation)
The Mayflower (painting)
Philadelphia
Street Scene-1787 (painting, Peale)
Slaves Landing at
Jamestown, 1619 (painting)
Winthrop,
John (portrait)
Winthrop, John
(portrait-Van Dyke)
Winthrop, John
(statue)
Revolutionary Period:
Adams, John
(portrait)
Adams, John (portrait-Trumball)
Adams, John
(portrait-Copley)
Adams, John (protrait-Peale,
1791)
Boston Massacre (Paul
Revere engraving)
Boston Massacre (Crispus
Attucks)
East India
Company (opposition broadside, 1773)
Flag--Don't
Tread on Me
Franklin, Benjamin
(portrait)
Franklin, Benjamin's
"Join or Die" Cartoon (1754)
George III
(portrait)
The
Constitution (original)
The
Constitution (signing-Christy painting)
The
Declaration of Independence (original)
The Declaration of
Independence (original rough draft manuscript)
The Declaration of
Independence (George Washington's personal copy)
The Declaration
of Independence (signing-John Trumball mural)
Hamilton, Alexander
(portrait)
Hamilton,
Alexander (portrait-Trumball, 1792)
Henry, Patrick
(portrait)
Jay, John
(portrait-Stuart, 1795)
Jefferson, Thomas
(portrait)
Jefferson,
Thomas (portrait-Peale, 1791)
Jefferson, Thomas
- Reflections on the Declaration of Independence (last letter to John Adams,
original manuscript)
Liberty Tree
(cartoon-punishment, 1774)
Liberty Tree
(cartoon-tar and feathering, 1774)
Map of the
Colonies (1775)
Map of the
United States (1790)
Map
of North America (1797)
Madison, James
(portrait)
Madison, James
(portrait-Harding)
Monroe, James
(portrait)
Monroe, James
(portrait)
Paine, Thomas
(portrait)
Slave
Sale Broadside (1774)
Washington, George
- Diary of The British Surrender at Yorktown (original manuscript)
Washington, George
- Attack on Bigotry 1790 (original manuscript)
Washington, George
(portrait)
Washington, George
(portrait-Peale)
Adams, John
Quincy (portrait-Bingham)
Anti-Bank
Cartoon
Anti-Bank
4th of July Cartoon
Erie Canal
(painting)
Erie Canal
Boats
Erie Canal Map
Harrison, William
Henry (portrait)
Jackson, Andrew
(portrait-Earl)
Laborers:
Locksmith
(photograph, 1853
Milliner
(photograph, 1854)
Peddler
(photograph)
Seamstress
(photograph, 1853)
The Log
Cabin Campaign
Map of the
Presidential Election of 1800
Map of the Presidential Election of 1828
Map of
the Presidential Election of 1840
Map of
the United States, 1810
Map of
the United States, 1820
Map of the United States, 1820 (indicates free and slave areas)
Map of the
United States, 1830
The Star
Spangled Banner (original manuscript)
Treaty of
Ghent (signing-portrait, December 24, 1814)
Trail of Tears Map
Van
Buren, Martin (photograph)
Van Buren, Martin
(photograph)
War of 1812
Anti-British Cartoon I
War of 1812
Anti-British Cartoon II
Abolitionist
Broadside - (1837)
"Am I Not A Man A Brother" (woodcut)
Abolitionist
Broadside Against Slavery in the District of Columbia (1836)
Abolitionist
Broadside - The Negro Woman's Appeal (1850s)
Abolitionist
Fundraising Leaflet
Abolitionist
Punished with Brand (1845)
Abolitionist
Rally - Wendell Phillips (illustration -1851)
Abolitionist
Songster - William Wells Brown (1848)
American
Colonization Society - Certificate of Membership (1840)
Anthony, Susan B.
- Anti-slavery Speech (original manuscript, 1859)
Anti-Abolitionist
Cartoon
Anti-Abolitionist
Handbill (1837)
Anti-Colonization
Song by African Americans (1842)
Anti-Slavery
Almanac Illustrations (1840)
Anti-Slavery
Children's Book Picture (1859)
Anti-Slavery
Convention Declaration (1833)
Brown,
John in Court (Broadside, 1959)
Fugitive Slave
Abolitionist Broadside (Anthony Burns Case - 1854)
Fugitive Slave
Abolitionist Poster (Anthony Burns Case-1854)
Fugitive Slave
Kidnapping (1839)
Fugitive
Slave Act of 1850 (Broadside, 1850)
Garrison, William Lloyd (photograph)
Garrison,
William Lloyd - Abolitionist Poem (1840)
Garrison,
William Lloyd - Abolitionist Song (1841)
Garrison, William
Lloyd - The Liberator (May 21, 1831)
Garrison,
William Lloyd - The Liberator (close-up, 1831)
Mott, Lucretia
(portrait)
Seneca Falls
Convention Honor Roll (1848 - Printed 1908)
Stanton,
Elizabeth Cady (daguerreotype, 1856)
Stanton, Elizabeth
Cady (portrait)
Stowe,
Harriet Beecher (engraving, 1862)
Stowe,
Harriet Beecher (engraving, 1872)
Stowe,
Harriet Beecher (photograph)
Africans
Smuggled into the United States, 1860 (illustration)
Douglass,
Frederick (portrait)
Douglass,
Frederick (photograph)
Manuscript
pages from The Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Douglass,
Frederick - Two Speeches (1857)
Douglass,
Frederick - The North Star (June 20, 1850)
Freedom
Certificate (Virginia, 1851)
Runaway Reward
Notice (1835)
Runaway
Reward Notice (1847)
Slave Market
(1852-painting)
Slave Quarters (St.
Georges Island, Florida-photograph)
Slave Sale,
Easton MD (photograph)
Slave Ship (sketch
of slave ship interior-1840)
Slaves on a South
Carolina Plantation (1862-photograph)
Tubman, Harriet
(photograph)
Turner, Nat -
capture (painting)
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Sectional Conflict:
Brown, John
(photograph)
Brown, John
(daguerreotype, ca. 1850)
Buchanan, James
(portrait)
Cass, Lewis
(photograph)
Calhoun, John C.
(portrait)
Calhoun, John C.
(statue)
Calhoun, John C.
(lithograph)
Calhoun, John C.
(photograph)
Calhoun, John
C. Speech on The Compromise of 1850 (original manuscript)
Clay, Henry
(portrait)
The Compromise of 1850
(painting of the signing)
The Crisis of
1850 (cartoon)
Douglas, Stephen
(photograph)
Douglas, Stephen
(photograph)
The Election of
1848 (Whig Broadside)
The Election of
1856 (Republican cartoon)
The Election of 1856
(Republican Handbill)
Fillmore,
Millard (photograph)
Fillmore, Millard
(portrait)
Fremont, John C.
(photograph)
Fremont, John C.
(portrait)
Gold Rush
(handbill, 1849)
Harper's Ferry Raid
(N.Y. Herald headline)
Lincoln, Abraham
(photograph)
Lincoln, Abraham
Campaign Banner, 1860
Map of
the United States, 1850
Map of the
United States, 1860
Map of
the Presidential Election of 1844
Map of
the Presidential Election of 1848
Map of
the Presidential Election of 1852
Map of
the Presidential Election of 1856
Map of
the Presidential Election of 1860
The Oregon
Question (cartoon, 1846)
Pierce, Franklin
(portrait)
Polk, James K.
(lithograph)
Polk, James K.
(photograph)
Polk's
Inaugural Address (original)
Scott, Winfield
(photograph)
Scott, Winfield
(lithograph)
Seward, William
(engraving)
Sumner, Charles
(photograph)
Sumner, Charles
- canning, 1856 (painting)
Taney, Roger
(photograph)
Taylor, Zachary
(portrait)
Taylor, Zachary
(portrait)
Taylor, Zachary
(portrait with other presidents)
Taylor,
Zachary (daguerreotype-Brady, 1849)
Taylor, Zachary
(photograph)
Tyler, John (portrait)
Tyler, John
(engraving)
Webster, Daniel
(portrait)
African
American Soldiers Hear the Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863
(photograph)
African
American Army Recruitment Broadside, 1863
African American
Soldiers, 1864 (photograph)
African
Americans in Richmond, 1865 (photograph)
Brady,
Mathew (photograph)
Booth, John
Wilkes (photograph, 1862)
Davis, Jefferson
(photograph)
Davis,
Jefferson (photograph)
The Election of
1864 (Lincoln campaign poster)
The Emancipation
Proclamation (original autograph manuscript copy)
Gettysburg
Battlefield (photograph, 1863)
Gettysburg
Dedication Ceremony, November 19, 1863 (photograph)
Grant,
Ulysses - Cold Harbor, June, 1864 (photograph)
Grant, Ulysses. S.- Looking
over General Meade's Shoulder, May 21, 1864 (photograph)
Grant,
Ulysses S. (photograph)
Jackson,
"Stonewall" (photograph)
Johnson,
Andrew (photograph)
Johnson, Andrew
- Impeachment Trial
Lee, Robert E.
(photograph- Brady)
Lee, Robert E.
(photograph)
Lee, Robert E. -
Farewell Address (April 10, 1865, original manuscript)
Library of Congress -
Civil War Maps
Library of Congress -
Civil War Photographs
Lincoln, Abraham
(portrait)
Lincoln, Abraham
(first inaugural address, original manuscript)
Lincoln,
Abraham (first inauguration-photograph)
Lincoln, Abraham
(cartoons)
Lincoln, Abraham
(assassination-Currier & Ives)
Lincoln, Abraham
(joint portrait with Washington and the Constitution; Lincoln and the
Emancipation Proclamation)
Lincoln,
Abraham at Antietam with General McLellan, October 3, 1862 (photograph)
Map of the
Presidential Election of 1864
Map of
the Presidential Election of 1876
Sherman,
William T. (photograph, 1864-5)
Slaves
Escaping to Freedom, 1862 (photograph)
Slaves
in Union Camp, 1863 (photograph)
Slave
Whipping (photograph, 1863)
Stephens,
Alexander (photograph)
Refugee Family
Volunteer
Celebration, Philadelphia, 1861 (lithograph)
Whitman, Walt
(photograph)
Wounded Soldiers:
Amputees
(photograph)
Fredericksburg
(photograph)
