Dual Enrollment U.S. History Syllabus
2010-2011 School Year
Bing Parkinson, Instructor
Required Books:
Norton, M.B, et al. (2008). A People and a Nation, Volumes 1 &2, 8th Edition.Wadsworth CENAGE Learning, Massachusetts
Wilson, J.R.M. (2003). Forging the American Character, Volumes 1 & 2, 4th Edition. Prentice Hall, New Jersey
Henretta, J. A. & Brody, D. (2010). America, A Concise History. 4th Edition. BEDFORD, St. Martins, Massachusetts
Banner, J.M. (2010). A Century of American Historiography. BEDFORD, St Martins, Massachusetts
Course Description:
1)Course will extend over three trimesters (36 Weeks).
2)Students must complete all three trimesters with a passing grade no lower than seventy percent (60%).
3)The course will investigate significant developments from colonial origins through the present.
4)Course Description Essentials:
a)This U.S. History course is designed to teach students to think critically about the issues that have
confronted and influenced the United States.
b)The students will through a process, integrate the examination of factual knowledge, the development and application of analytic skills, and the assessment of primary and secondary sources.
c)This course is the equivalent of an introductory college survey course in U.S. history, and its content spans the discovery and settlement of the New World to the present covering the 500-year scope of U.S. history from North America’s pre-Columbian beginnings to the present.
d)The students will integrate a number of important themes that recur throughout American history.
e)Analysis of primary-source documents will be required of all students.
f)This course will help students develop analytic ways of thinking, such as recognizing cause and effect, drawing inferences, dealing with conflicting viewpoints, and tracing the evolution of themes throughout history.
h) Students are requiredto write often and insightfully.
i) Students will weigh different interpretations of history and introduces them to historical criticism.
j) Students are expected to complete daily reading assignments making notes in a notebook to be used as reference information for class projects (writing, speaking, and PowerPoint presentations).
k) No open book or open note tests, students are expected to study their notes and projects for any tests.
l) Daily reading assignments will be completed by all students.
Course Requirements
Students must maintain an US History notebook. The notebook
should be a large three-ring binder with dividers, organized as follows:
Section 1: Class notes, reading notes and discussion questions, dated. Students should take notes both from written sources and oral/visual sources.
Section 2: Writing samples, Focus Questions, etc.
Section 3: Tests quizzes and review sheets
Section 4: Maps, Graphs, charts and Handouts
Section 5: Handouts, which must be returned and destroyed at the end of the course as per copyright stipulations.
Section 6: Index of acts, administrations, documents, laws, supreme court cases, charts of change over time for African Americans, women, Native Americans, foreign policy, etc.
Students must be able to access the Internet, either from school, a local library or from home.
ASSIGNMENTS AND MAKE-UP WORK & TESTS
All assignments MUST be completed on time and turned in on the date listed. If this is a problem, it is YOUR responsibility to see me immediately. If you are absent, you may turn in an essay or paper one day after your return to class. No exceptions to this requirement. Other assignments must be handed in the first day you return, if you are absent for class, but in school earlier or later in the day it is due, any work due
MUST BE TURNED IN THAT DAY. Any late work will receive a grade reduction.Don’t miss class and don’t miss assignments.
Honesty Policy:
Students must produce original work. Any cheating or plagiarism will result in failure of the class.
Grading:
Letter grades are calculated on a standard scale:
90% and above= A
80% - 89% = B
70% - 79% = C
60% - 69% = D
Below 60% = F
GRADE COMPONENTS:
INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT POINT VALUE RANGE / CATEGORY WEIGHTWeekly Chapter Quizzes = 15-25 points each
Tests = 100-150 points each / Quiz/Test average = 25%
Projects = 20-80 points each / Projects average = 25%
Essays = 50-75 points each / Essay average = 25%
Classwork/Homework:
Discussion & Interactive Questioning = 10 points
Document Analysis = 10-20 points
Charts - (Presidents, Periods, Decades) = 10-25 points
Article Thesis Analysis = 10-20 points / Class work/ Homework Average=25%
Class and Reading Schedule
Week One –Introduction to U.S. History.
Chapter 1, Three Old Worlds Create a New, 1492-1600, Norton
American Societies
North America in 1492
African Societies
European Societies
Early European Exploration
Voyages of Columbus, Cabot, and Their Successors
Spanish Exploration and Conquest
The Columbian Exchange
Europeans in North America
Links to the World: Maize
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Kennewick Man/Ancient One
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 1, The Creation of American Societies, 1450-1763
Week Two –Colonial America
Chapter 2, Europeans Colonize North America, 1600-1650, Norton
Spanish, French, and Dutch North America
The Caribbean
Links to the World: Wampum
English Interest in Colonization
The Founding of Virginia
Life in the Chesapeake
The Founding of New England
Life in New England
Legacy for a People and a Nation:Blue Laws
Week Three –Chapter 3, North America in the Atlantic World, Norton
The Growth of Anglo-American Settlements
A Decade of Imperial Crises: The 1670s
The Atlantic Trading System
Slavery in North America and the Caribbean
Imperial Reorganization and the Witchcraft Crisis
Links to the World: Exotic Beverages
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Americans and African Descent
Week Four –Chapter 4, American Society Transformed, 1720-1770, Norton
Population Growth and Ethnic Diversity
Economic Growth and Development
Colonial Cultures
Links to the World: Smallpox Inoculation
Colonial Families
Politics: Stability and Crisis in British America
A Crisis in Religion
Legacy for a People and a Nation: “Self-Made Men”
Week Five –Chapter 5, Serving the Bonds of Empire, 1754-1774, Norton
Renewed Warfare Among Europeans and Indians
1763: A Turning Point
Links to the World: The First Worldwide War
The Stamp Act Crisis
Resistance to the Townshend Acts
Confrontations in Boston
Tax and Turmoil
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Women’s Political Activities
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 2, The New Republic, 1763-1820
Week Six –Chapter 6, A Revolution, Indeed, 1774-1783, Norton
Government by Congress and Committee
Contest in the Backcountry
Choosing Sides
War and Independence
Links to the World: New Nations
The Struggle in the North
Life in the Army and on the Home Front
Victory in the South
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Revolutionary Origins
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 2, The New Republic, 1763-1820
Week Seven – Chapter 7, Forging a National Republic, 1776-1789, Norton
Creating a Virtuous Republic
Links to the World: Novels
The First Emancipation and the Growth of Racism
Designing Republican Governments
Trials of the Confederation
Order and Disorder in the West
From Crisis to the Constitution
Opposition and Ratification
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Township and Range System
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 2, The New Republic, 1763-1820
Week Eight –Chapter 8, The Early Republic: Conflicts at Home and Abroad, 1789-1800, Norton
Building a Workable Government
Domestic Policy Under Washington and Hamilton
The French Revolution and the Development of Partisan Politics
Partisan Politics and Relations with Great Britain
John Adams and Political Dissent
The West in the New Nation
“Revolutions” at the End of the Century
Links to the World: Haitian Refugees
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Dissent During Wartime
Week Nine –Chapter 9, Defining the Nation, 1801-1823, Norton
Political Visions
National Expansion Westward
The Nation in the Orbit of Europe
Links to the World: Industrial Piracy
The Nationalist Program
Sectionalism Exposed
Legacy for a People and a Nation: States’ Rights and Nullification
Week Ten –Chapter 10, The Rise of the South, 1815-1860, Norton
The “Distinctive” South?
Southern Expansion, Indian Resistance, and Removal
Links to the World: The Amistad Case
Limits of Mobility in a Hierarchical Society
The Planters’ World
Slave Life and Labor
Slave Culture and Resistance
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Reparations for Slavery
Week Eleven –Chapter 11, The Modernizing North, 1815-1860,
Norton
Or Is It the North That Was Distinctive?
The Transportation Revolution
Factories and Industrialization
Links to the World: The United States as a Developing Nation
Consumption and Commercialization
Families in Flux
The Growth of Cities
Legacy for a People and a Nation: A Mixed Economy
Week Twelve –Chapter 12, Reform and Politics in the Age of Jackson, 1824-1845, Norton
From Revival to Reform
Communitarian Experiments
Abolitionism
Links to the World: The International Antislavery Movement
Women’s Rights
Jacksonianism and Party Politics
Federalism at Issue: The Nullification and Bank Controversies
The Whig Challenge and the Second Party System
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Bible Belt
Week Thirteen –Chapter 13, The Contested West, 1815-1860, Norton
The West in the American Imagination
Expansion and Resistance in the Old Northwest
The Federal Government and Westward Expansion
Links to the World: Gold in California
The Southwestern Borderlands
Migration to the Far West
The Politics of Territorial Expansion
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Descendants of Early Latino Settlers
Week Fourteen –Chapter 14, Slavery and America’s Future: The Road to War, Norton
The War with Mexico and its Consequences
1850: Compromise or Armistice?
Slavery Expansion and Collapse of the Party System
Links to the World: Annexation of Cuba
Slavery and the Nation’s Future
Disunion
Legacy for a People and a Nation: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 3, Economic Revolution and Sectional Strife, 1820-1877
Week Fifteen –Chapter 15, Transforming Fire: The Civil War, 1861-1865, Norton
America Goes to Was, 1861-1862
War Transforms the South
Wartime Northern Economy and Society
The Advent of Emancipation
The Soldiers War
Disunity: South, North, and West
1864-1865, The Final Test of Wills
Links to the World: The Civil War in Britain
Legacy for a People and a “Nation”: “Big” Government
Week Sixteen – Chapter 16, Reconstruction: An Unfinished Revolution, 1865-1877, Norton
Wartime Reconstruction
The Meanings of Freedom
Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan
The Congressional Reconstruction Plan
Reconstruction Politics and Economy in the South
Retreat from Reconstruction
Links to the World: The Grant’s Tour of the World
Legacy for a People and a Nation: The Lost Cause
Week Seventeen – Chapter 17, The Development of the West, 1865–1900, Norton
The Economic Activities of Native Peoples
The Transformation of Native Cultures
The Extraction of Natural Resources
Irrigation and Transportation
Links to the World: The Australian Frontier
Farming the Plains
The Ranching Frontier
Week Eighteen – Chapter 18, The Machine Age, 1877–1920, Norton
Technology and the Triumph of Industrialization
Links to the World: The Atlantic Cable
Mechanization and the Changing Status of Labor
Labor Violence and the Union Movement
Standards of Living
The Corporate Consolidation Movement
The Gospel of Wealth and Its Crisis
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 4, A Maturing Industrial Society, 1877-1914
Week Nineteen – Chapter 19, The Vitality and Turmoil of Urban Life, 1877–-1920, Norton
Growth of the Modern City
Urban Neighborhoods
Living Conditions of the Inner City
Managing the City
Family Life
The New Leisure and Mass Culture
Links to the World: Japanese Baseball
Week Twenty – Chapter 20, Gilded Age Politics, 1877–1900, Norton
The Nature of Political Parties
Issue of Legislation
Tentative Presidents
Discrimination, Disfranchisement, and Responses
Agrarian Unrest and Populism
Link to the World: Russian Populism
The Depression and Protests of the 1890s
The Silver Crusade and the Election of 1890
Week Twenty-one – Chapter 21, The Progressive Era, 1895–1920, Norton
The Varied Progressive Impulse
Links to the World: Worker’s Compensation
Government and Legislative Reform
New Ideas in Social Institutions
Challenges to Racial and Sexual Discrimination
Theodore Roosevelt and the Revival of the Presidency
Woodrow Wilson and the Extension of Progressive Reform
Week Twenty-two – Chapter 22, The Quest for Empire, 1865–1914, Norton
Imperial Dreams
Links to the World: National Geographic
Ambitions and Strategies
Crises in the 1890s: Hawaii, Venezuela, and Cuba
The Spanish-American War and the Debate over Empire
Asian Encounters: War in the Philippines, Diplomacy in China
TR’s World
Week Twenty-three – Chapter 23, Americans in the Great War, 1914–1920, Norton
Precarious Neutrality
The Decisions of War
Winning the War
Links to the World: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Mobilizing the Home Front
Civil Liberties Under Challenge
Red Scare, Red Summer
The Defeat of Peace
Week Twenty-four – Chapter 24, The New Era 1920-1929, Norton
Big Business Triumphant
Politics and Government
A Consumer Society
Cities, Migrants, and Suburbs
Links to the World: Pan American Airways
New Rhythms of Everyday Life
Lines of Defense
The Age of Play
Week Twenty-five – Chapter 25,The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929–1941, Norton
Hoover and Hard Times 1929-1933
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Launching of the New Deal
Political Pressure and the Second New Deal
Federal Power and the Nationalization of Culture
Links to the World: The 1936 Olympic Games
The Limits of the New Deal
Week Twenty-six – Chapter 26,Peaceseekers and Warmakers: Americans in the World, 1920–1941, Norton
Searching for Peace and Order in the 1920s
The World Economy, Cultural Expansion, and Great Depression
U.S. Dominance in Latin America
The Course of War in Europe
Japan, China, and a New Order in Asia
U.S. Entry into World War I
Links to the World: Radio News
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 5, The Modern State and Society, 1914-1945
Week Twenty-seven – Chapter 27, The Second World War at Home and Abroad, 1941–1945, Norton
The United States at War
The Production Front and American Workers
Life on the Home Front
The Limits of American Ideals
Links to the World: War Brides
Life in the Military
Winning the War
Week Twenty-eight – Chapter 28, The Cold War and American Globalism, 1945–1961, Norton
From Allies to Adversaries
Containment in Action
The Cold War in Asia
The Korean War
Unrelenting Cold War
Links to the World: The People-to-People Campaign
The Struggle for the Third World
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 6, The Age of Cold War Liberalism, 1945-1980
Week Twenty-nine – Chapter 29, America at Midcentury, Norton
Shaping Postwar America
Domestic Politics in the Cold War Era
Cold War Fears and Anticommunism
The Struggle for Civil Rights
Creating a Middle-class Nation
Men, Women, and Youth at Midcentury
Links to the World: Barbie
The Limits of the Middle-Class Nation
Week Thirty – Chapter 30,The Tumultuous Sixties, Norton
Kennedy and the Cold War
Marching for Freedom
Liberalism and the Great Society
Johnson and Viet Nam
A Nation Divided
Links to the World: The British Invasion
1968
Chapter 31, Continuing Divisions and New Limits, 1969-1980, Norton
The New Politics of Identity
The Women’s Movement and Gay Liberation
The End in Viet Nam
Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
Links to the World: OPEC and the 1973 Oil Embargo
Presidential Politics and the Crisis of Leadership
Economic Crisis
An Era of Cultural Transformation
Renewal of Cold War and Middle East Crisis
Week Thirty-one – Chapter 32,Conservatism Revived, 1980-1992, Norton
Reagan and the Conservative Resurgence
Reagan and the World
American Society in the 1980s
The End of the Cold War and Global Disorder
Links to the World: CNN
Supplementary Reading
American, A Concise History
Part 7, A Divided Nation in a Disordered World, 1980-2008
Chapter 33,Into the Global Millennium: America Since 1992, Norton
Social Strains and New Political Directions
“The New Economy” and Globalization
Paradoxes of Prosperity
September 11 and the War on Terrorism
War and Occupation in Iraq
Americans in the First Decade of the New Millennium
Links to the World: The Global AIDS Epidemic
Week Thirty-two
Test Prep