On-Line History 2211 Schedule of Readings

U.S. History I
HIST 2211
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Spring 2024

Abbreviations used:
DAP = Discovering the American Past
P&N = A People and a Nation

Quick way to remember due dates: Items in the YELLOW column are due Mondays at NOON; 2 weeks do not have a Textbook quiz

Items in the GREEN column are due Tuesdays at NOON, each and every week.

Week 1/ Syllabus Quiz + Quiz 1:

Class begins on Monday, January 8

Topics Covered

Reading for Textbook Quiz 1. Due next January 15 at NOON <BUT a free Week 1 extension given until Monday, January 22

Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON *Free extension during Week 1, so the deadline is 1/23

1. Introduction to the Course and Each Other

2. Native American Worlds

3. The Age of Exploration and First Encounters

A People and A Nation Chapter 1.

Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.

"First Encounters: Cortez and the Aztecs"
*This is an article that is located on D2L (Materials --> Content)

Week 2/ Quiz 2:

Tuesday, January 16

Topics Covered

Reading for Textbook Quiz 2. Due next Monday 1/22.

Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.

1. The First Europeans in North America (c. 1530-1670s)

2. First Settlements in the Southern Colonies

A People and A Nation Chapter 2.

Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.

1. The "Lost Colony" of Roanoke (founded in 1584): Click here for the assignment. Be sure to note that there are three items total for each student to read; the third item is determined by your last name.

2. Southern Colonies/Jamestown (founded in 1606) readings: Click here for assignment.

3. Next we will move on to the Northern Colonies (a topic we will continue next week.) This assignment is to watch the documentary film: We Shall Remain, Episode One, "After the Mayflower." You can find this video loaded into D2L > Materials > Content.
(1 hour, 13 minutes in length.) Click here for a note-taking guide.
(Even though this is not a "reading" per se, you will be quizzed on the material in this film this week. You will NOT have to include a specific time stamp as part of your citation but your answer will be evaluated based on the specific details and examples from the film.)

Week 3/ Quiz 3:

Tuesday, January 23	Topics Covered	Reading for Textbook Quiz 3. Due next Monday, 1/29 at NOON.	Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.
	1. The Northern Colonies 2. Religion in Puritan America 3. Salem Witch Trials	A People and A Nation Chapter 3. Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.	1. Discovering the American Past (DAP) Chapter 2. VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. 2. Read the general background of the Salem Witch Trials. 3. Skim the trial of Sarah Good. Summarize what her accusers said about her. 4. Read the Examination of Rebecca Nurse. How does she answer the accusations against her? If you're interested in more information and documents related to the Salem Witch Trials, check out this website at the University of Virginia. (optional) **Look ahead -- a bit more reading assigned next week. Get a start on it if you can.

Week 4/ Quiz 4:

Tuesday, January 30	Topics Covered	Reading for Textbook Quiz 4. Due next Monday, 2/5 at NOON.	Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = one week added -- deadline is same as Week 5, 2/13
	Unfree Labor in the Southern Colonies and the "Terrible Transformation"	A People and A Nation Chapter 4 Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.	1. Discovering the American Past (DAP) Chapter 3. VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. In the questions I will pose in Discussion on D2L, I will ask students to summarize and comment on the laws and statistics. Aim to make sure one of your weekly posts accomplishes this. 1A: Click here for an article and interesting graphic map about the scope of the trade in enslaved people. 2. "2. "The Life of Olaudah Equiano/Gustavus Vassa" in Classic Slave Narratives.* This book is for sale in the bookstore or you can locate the Equiano narrative on-line here, Volume I. Click here for Volume II. All editions will read the same chapters but the page numbers will vary depending on which edition you purchase. Everyone read Chapters 1, 2, 5, 12 [You can read the summaries of each chapter if you wish to follow the story throughout.] 3. Click here for an optional extra credit assignment due next Tuesday 2/6 at NOON. (Reading the rest of the Equiano narrative and writing a short reaction paper.)

Week 5/ Quiz 5:

Tuesday, February 6	Topics Covered	Reading for Textbook Quiz 5. Due next Monday, 2/12 at NOON.	Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.
	Colonial Society Matures	A People and A Nation Chapter 5. Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.	1. "The Sum of the Colonial Experience." *This is an article that is located on D2L (Materials --> Content) [These are articles written by historians, which means it can be challenging, college-level reading. I will post some questions for discussion on D2L that will encourage you to work together to "walk through" each historian's main points.] 2. The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, Connecticut: Nathan Cole’s Spiritual Travels

Week 6/ Quiz 6:

Tuesday, February 13	Topics Covered	Reading for Textbook Quiz 6. Due next Tuesday, 2/20 at NOON. One day extension due to the holiday.	Readings for Discussion and Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.
	1. Road to the Revolution 2. The American Revolution	A People and A Nation Chapter 6. Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.	1. DAP, Chapter 4. VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. 2. An Account of a Soldier at the Battle of Yorktown (You might also want to listen to #20 on the Hamilton soundtrack "Yorktown")

Week 7/ Quiz 7:

Tuesday,
February 20

Topics Covered

Reading for Textbook Quiz 7. Due next Monday, 2/26 at NOON.

Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.

The New Political Order: The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the New Republic

A People and A Nation Chapter 7.

Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.

1. We will be reading about the need to create a new Constitution and then reading sections of the Constitution itself. Click here for the reading assignment.

2. "Hamilton" The Musical -- click here for the assignment. If you have Disney+ you can watch the Original Broadway Cast perform the musical!

Week 8/ Quiz 8: MID-POINT OF THE SEMESTER. WEEKS 1-8 IN DISCUSSION WILL BE GRADED.

Tuesday, February 27	Topics Covered	NO TEXTBOOK QUIZ THIS WEEK	Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.
	Thomas Jefferson		Click here for the reading assignment about Thomas Jefferson.

Week 9/Quiz 9: Two week block here due to Spring Break! You can complete the work at any point within the two weeks; Saturday deadline for discussion is 3/16.

Tuesday, March 5

Topics Covered

Reading for Textbook Quiz 8. Due Monday 3/18 at NOON.

Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.

Jacksonian Democracy and Moving Westward

A People and A Nation Chapter 8.

Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.

1. DAP, Chapter 7. Read the introductory and concluding pages (pp. 167-179; 202-206) and then choose SIX sources from the "Evidence" section in the middle of the chapter. Choose three white sources and three Cherokee sources, being sure to read #5 Frelinghuysen. VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content.

2. "Everything Here is New But the Forests": Englishman Thomas Woodcock Travels to Niagara on the Erie Canal, 1836.

3. Watch "We Shall Remain, Episode 3; Trail of Tears" (1 hour, 12 minutes) This film is available through our library's database and I have loaded it into D2L. (Materials --> Content --> We Shall Remain Trail of Tears Video). Click to open link. Please let me know if you have any trouble opening and watching this video.

Week 10/ Quiz 10:

Tuesday,
March 19

Topics Covered

Reading for Textbook Quiz 9. Due next Monday, 3/25 at NOON.

Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.

1. Urbanization and Industrialization

2. 19th Century Immigration

A People and A Nation Chapter 10. *Note this chapter is out of order!

Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.

1. Interview with historian Noel Ignatiev

2. Choose one of the months listed in this selection from the newspaper the Cork Examiner. You'll be reading the famine-related news for that month. After you've chosen a month from the right side of the screen, read at least TWO articles from that month.

3. Summary of the basics behind the potato famine.

4. "Working girls of Lowell" *This is an article that is located on D2L (Materials --> Content) All students must read p. 145-150 and 175-177. Each of the sources are numbered within the chapter. Read sources #2, 3, 7, 10, 15, 18-22.

Optional: You can view the first 30 minutes of this movie to learn more about Irish immigration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybntHGbrPAs

Begin assignment in Classic Slave Narratives (see next week) and/or get a start on watching the film. Larger assignment coming up next week!

Week 11/ Quiz 11:

Tuesday, March 26	Topics Covered	Reading for Textbook Quiz 10. Due next Monday, 4/1 at NOON.	Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.
	Slavery	A People and A Nation Chapter 9. Note this chapter is out of order! Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST* can help guide your comprehension as you read.	1. "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" in Classic Slave Narratives. You should read the entire narrative. This book is for sale in the bookstore. You may also use these links for reading it on-line: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030 2. Watch "12 Years a Slave;" may be able to watch here for free: (Rent it via all of the major streaming sites. You also may be able to request a copy from your local public library.) click here for a list of characters and a summary. 3. Read these two articles about the history of the AME church, Denmark Vesey, and events in Charleston. * "Before Charleston’s Church Shooting, a Long History of Attacks." by Professor Douglas Egerton (If this link doesn't work for you, you can find this article in D2L Materials >Content.) * "The Long and Proud History of Charleston's AME Church" by Professor Manisha Sinha

Week 12/ Quiz 12:

Tuesday,
April 2

Topics Covered

NO TEXTBOOK QUIZ THIS WEEK

Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.

19th Century Religion and Reform

*Each student must read all of the assigned items: #1-7.

1. What prompted this wave of reform: DAP, Chapter 8. italSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. Read pp. 210 (starting with "The rise of..") - middle of p. 213.

2. Women's Rights
DAP, Chapter 8. Choose ONE text source from the "Evidence" section of the Chapter (see pp. 215-227). VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content.

3. The Second Great Awakening:
“The Meeting Continued All Night, Both by the White & Black People”: Georgia Camp Meeting, 1807
alternate link if that one is broken: https://web.archive.org/web/20210421211320/http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6518

4. The Shakers
“All To Me Was New and Strange”: Mary Doolittle Leaves Her Family for a Shaker Community, 1830

alternate link if that one is broken: https://web.archive.org/web/20210413003618/http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6371/

5. Brook Farm
“I Believe in the Divinity of Labor”: George Ripley Tries to Convince Ralph Waldo Emerson to Join Brook Farm, Boston, 1840

alternate link: https://web.archive.org/web/20210413001754/http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6592

The remaining items are located in D2L Materials --> Content under "Age of Reform materials" Read
6a. Moral Reform.
6b. Moral Reform.
Introduction plus ONE primary source document of your choice.

7a. Dress Reform.
Introduction

7b. Dress Reform.
Document 2, Catharine Beecher.

Week 13/ Quiz 13:

Tuesday, April 9	Topics Covered	Reading for Textbook Quiz 11. Due next Monday, 4/15 at NOON.	Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.
	The Conflict Over Slavery	A People and A Nation Chapter 12. l Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.	Click here for the reading assignment. Note that there is an extra credit assignment due Friday 5/10 during Finals week. (Reading the Douglass narrative and writing a short reaction paper.) While this is not due until the end of the course, it connects to the topics we're reading this week, so you might want to get a start on it!

Week 14/ Quiz 14:

Tuesday, Tuesday, April 16	Topics Covered	Reading for Textbook Quiz 12. Due next Monday, 4/22 at NOON.	Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = next Tuesday at NOON.
	The Civil War: Military Aspects	A People and A Nation Chapter 13. Be advised that reading the "Summary" section of the chapter (found at the very end) FIRST can help guide your comprehension as you read.	Click here for the reading assignment.

Week 15/ Quiz 15:

Tuesday, Tuesday,
April 23

Topics Covered

Reading for Textbook Quiz 13. Due next Monday 4/29 at NOON.

Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = Tuesday, May 2 at NOON.

1. The Civil War on the Home Front

2. Reconstruction

A People and A Nation Chapter 14.

1. “If It Were Not For My Trust in Christ I Do Not Know How I Could Have Endured It”: Testimony from Victims of New York’s Draft Riots, July, 1863

2. “A Jubilee of Freedom”: Freed Slaves March in Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1865

3. "No More Pint o' Salt for Me: The Port Royal Experiment" *This is an article that is located on D2L (Materials --> Content). The PDF of this article was large enough to require two separate documents, so be sure to open and print BOTH Parts ONE AND TWO. Everyone read: pp. 237-246; 271-274. The primary sources in this chapter are divided as follows:

Last names A-C: Sources 1-3 (education)
Last names D-G: Sources 4-8 (work and land)
Last names H-L: Sources 9-13 (work and land)
Last names M -P: Sources 14-17 (work and land)
Last names Q-R: Sources 18-25 (military service)
Last names S-Z: Sources 26-28 (attitudes)

4. The Mississippi Black Codes of 1865. What kinds of laws did Mississippi pass to control the lives of freed people?

5. Read about the "Myth of the Lost Cause" on D2L Content ---> Materials.

Week 16 /Finals Week. Tues 4/30 to noon Tues 5/7

No quizzes this week, although you may use a free ticket to make up missed quiz. (Tickets cannot be use for retakes.) You can also complete the Frederick Douglass extra credit assignment, due Friday 5/10. There is one more required discussion post in the "Final Reflection" forum due Tues. 5/7 -- there is no official final exam in this class. More details will be posted on D2L.