History 17A: United States History to 1877

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1 History 17A: United States History to 1877 Course # M-H 8:00-10:10 a.m. Summer 2009 Instructor: Krishna Jones Holt kjones@deltacollege.edu Catalog Description: This course is a survey of United States history from its pre-colonial beginnings through Civil War and Reconstruction. The course covers significant persons, events, and issues from our nation's past. Covered topics include all geographical regions ultimately encompassed by the United States, initial cultural contact, European settlements, racial, class, religious, and gender conflicts, immigration, the development of a national identity and American institutions, as well as sectionalism and trans-continental expansion. This course fulfills the Social Science (group A) requirement for the AA degree and it applies toward the completion of California State requirements in United States history and institutions. (UC, CSU, CAN HIST 8, CAN HIST SEQ B with both HIST 17A and HIST 17B) Required Textbooks : Norton, Mary Beth. A People and a Nation Volume One: to 1877 Marcus, Robert D. America Firsthand Volume One: Readings from Settlement to Reconstruction Requirements and Grading Criteria Test 3x Paper 8x Project 3x25 75 Participation 15 Total 400 No Assignments will be accepted via . You must turn in the papers and projects on the given due date in class. No exceptions. Plagiarism and Cheating Plagiarism: Deliberately presenting work, words, ideas, theories, etc. derived in whole or in part from a source external to the student as though they are the student s own efforts. Examples of plagiarism include, but are not limited to the following: a. Failing to use proper citations as acknowledgement of the true source of information included in a paper, written or oral examination, or any other academic exercise... (Taken from the Standards of Conduct: Academic Dishonesty. ) Any student caught cheating or plagiarizing will automatically fail the course. If you are uncertain about citing a source it is always best to use a citation. If you have specific questions please contact me. Attendance Policy You must attend the first three class sessions; failure to do so will result in an automatic drop from the course. After the fourth class session it is the student s responsibility to drop. I do not grant W s for any reason unless you contact me with a viable reason during the semester. If you have special circumstances or issues please see me. It is your responsibility to drop the

2 course for any other reason. If you miss a class it is your responsibility to get notes from another student, not from me. Plan ahead. Courtesy Please turn cell phones off before coming to class. Do not answer phones or text message during class. Do not talk during lecture. Questions and comments are encouraged, however any hateful language/views will not be tolerated. If any of these are a reoccurring problem I will ask you to leave. Course Outline and Schedule Meeting Lecture and Due dates WEEK ONE Read Ch /15 Introduction. 6/16 Native Americans Encounter with the Indians Father Paul Le Jeune DUE 6/17 Europeans and the New World Captured by Indians Mary Jemison DUE 6/18 Colonies cont. Project One Due WEEK TWO Read Ch /22 Early 18 th Century The Case against George Burroughs Ann Putnam DUE 6/23 Great Awakening and Enlightenment A Man of the American Enlightenment Benjamin Franklin DUE 6/24 British Expansion Leaving an Abusive Husband Abigail Abbot Bailey DUE 6/25 Colonial Politics TEST ONE WEEK THREE Read Ch /29 Revolution Begins Choosing Sides Boston King 6/30 Revolutionary War Secret Correspondence of a Loyalist Wife Catherine Van Cortlandt DUE

3 7/1 Creation of a Republic? Republican Motherhood Eliza Pickney & Abigail Adams 7/2 The Constitution and Politics Project Two Due WEEK FOUR Read Ch /6 Jefferson and the State How the West Was Won An Officer of the Army of the West 7/7 Social Reform Life in California Before the Gold Discovery Guadalupe Vallejo 7/8 Reform and Policy A Slave Insurrection Nat Turner 7/9 Westward Expansion TEST TWO WEEK FIVE Read Ch /13 Slavery and Politics Life of a Female Slave Harriet Jacobs 7/14 Civil War Begins Field of Carnage : A Confederate Account Walter Harrison 7/15 Civil War Cont. Three Days of Terror Ellen Leonard 7/16 Reconstruction Project Three Due WEEK SIX Read Ch /20 Social Strife in the 1870s White Southerners Reactions to Reconstruction Caleb G. Forshey & Reverend James Sinclair 7/21 The end of the buffalo? 7/22 End of Reconstruction 7/23 TEST THREE SYLLABUS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

4 Projects History is more than a collection of dates and wars. History is more about viewing events or people in a different light to get a better understanding of our collective past. Each project is designed to give you a new perception of history. The directions will be handed out on the Monday of the week that they are due. Each is worth twenty-five points. Tests Tests are based upon the study guide terms below. Each test will be given the first thirty minutes of the assigned class meeting. There will be no make up exams if you are late. Tests will be a combination of multiple choice, matching and short answer. Each worth fifty points. Study Guide Paleo Indians Anasazi Mound builders Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Spanish Missions Roanoke John White Indentured Servants Feme Covert Bacon s Rebellion Middle Passage Peculiar Institution Great Migration John Winthrop Puritans Anne Hutchinson Salem Witchcraft Sachem Pequot War King Philip s War Increase Mather Dutch Middle Colonies Quakers and Pennsylvania Carolinas slaves Dominion Nine years war 18 th c. consumers Slave Resistance Mission Indians Great Awakening George Whitefield Sarah Haggar Osborn New Lights Samson Occom Log College Christian Philosopher Benjamin Franklin Jonathon Edwards King George s War French and Indian War Pontiac s rebellion Rev. John Wise Sugar Act Stamp Act Sons of Liberty Townshend Acts liberty poles Boston Tea Party Coercive Acts Bunker Hill Common Sense Declaration of Independence Thomas Hutchinson Camp followers Molly Pitchers Paris Peace Treaty Statute of Religious Liberty Phyllis Wheatley Anthony Benezet Benjamin Rush Judith Sargent Murray Mercy Otis Warren Virginia Plan Federalist Papers George Washington Bill of Rights Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson XYZ Affair Alien & Sedition Acts Marbury v. Madison Lewis & Clark Expedition Sacagawea Missouri Compromise Shakers Mormons 2 nd Great Awakening Temperance Abolition movement Frederick Douglass Grimke Sisters Uncle Tom s Cabin Women s Rights Movement Lowell Textile Mill Andrew Jackson Trail of Tears Mexican-American War Gold Rush Kansas-Nebraska Act Bleeding Kansas Dred Scott Case Lincoln-Douglas Debate John Brown 1860 election Battle of Bull Run Emancipation Proclamation Mass. 54 th Regiment Gettysburg Gen. William T. Sherman Gen. U. S. Grant Freedman s Bureau Act of 1865 Southern Homestead Act of 1866 A.A. churches Freedman bureau schools Southern economy after C.W. Labor issues Gen. John Sherman Gen. Howard s Circular 13 Violent resistance to Reconstruction Andrew Johnson Black Codes Radical Republicans Civil Rights Bill Freedmen s Bureau bill 14 th Amendment

5 Reconstruction Act of 1867 Johnson s Impeachment 15 th amendment Congressional Enforcement Acts Grant s Indian Policy Treaty of Medicine Lodge Buffalo Hunters Battle of Adobe Walls Salary Grab Unions Molly Maguires Railroad Strike 1877 Female Suffrage W.C.T.U. Knights of Labor Female Colleges Compromise of 1876 PAPERS The paper is designed to enable you to develop more thoroughly your analytical skills. You need at least one other source book, journal article, newspaper, magazine, internet source etc. The paper must be 2-3 pages in length, typed, double-spaced, 12 size, in a readable font with correct citations; Kate Turabian s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, look for the chapter concerning notes. Do not use MLA. Proper Citation-Turabian The paper is worth 20 points. Here is a breakdown of points. Citations 6 points Analysis, Interpretation, Commentary 12 points Grammar/Readability/Organization 2 points The paper should not be a summary of the sources. You want to evaluate the importance of the document. Write a commentary, analysis, or interpretation of the document. In other words write an essay that expresses your understanding of the significance, ramifications, or value of the piece. Use outside sources for background information or to support your argument. Below is a list of questions that you can use to bring critical analysis into your writing and thinking. Always question. 1. What is the purpose of the piece/book being written? Or why did the author write the piece? 2. Compare the information with what you already know either about the era or the event. 3. What ideas are being presented in the piece? 4. Separate facts from opinions. Next what is the importance of the opinions and can opinions be supported by the facts? 5. Assess the value or importance of the piece. What does it contribute to history if anything? 6. What is your opinion of the piece? And can you back your opinions with facts. 7. What does this piece reveal about the time in which it was written? 8. Can you summarize the piece in your own words? 9. What outside forces contributed to people behaving in a certain way? Or what influenced people during this time? Think about religion, culture, economics, society etc. 10. Provide examples from the author s work that reflects attitudes within society at the time. 11. What societal attitudes or ideas justify the social status of the individual at the time?

6 12. What is your theory about the subject? If you were to write a response to a text do you agree or disagree with the author? Use factual evidence in supporting your theory. Hints for citations/footnotes: If you did not know the information before reading a book or an article you need to use a footnote A footnote is needed even if you paraphrase (in your own words) a source It is the norm for each paragraph to have at least one footnote If in doubt use a footnote Guide to Footnotes Open up your word document Once you have typed in the information that needs a citation, either a paraphrase or direct quote, directly after the information click on insert top of page Scroll down to either footnote/endnote click on it It will then proceed to ask for a number, type it in; begin with #1 and continue throughout paper. 1 Your citation # will automatically appear and you will be moved to the end of your page At this point type in the information according to your Turabian Guide Once you have cited a source you do not have to fully cite again; provide author s last name and page number 2 Pay attention on your guide to the note format in the paper not the bibliography form. 1 Author s name. Title (City, Publisher, year), pg. #. 2 Author s last name pg. #.

ENGLISH 2570: SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Fall 2004

ENGLISH 2570: SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE Fall 2004 Instructor: Dr. Anne Little Credits: 3 Hours Office: Liberal Arts 358 Prerequisites: C in EH 1010 and 1020 Telephone: 244-3220 (LA) E-Mail: alittle@mail.aum.edu