U.S. History I
HIST 2211.50
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Summer 2025
Quick way
to remember due dates: Items in the YELLOW column are due Mondays at NOON; one
week does not have a Inquisitive
Items in the GREEN column are due Tuesdays at NOON, each and every week.
Week 1:
Monday, June 2 -Tuesday June 10 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #1 AND #2. Due next Monday June 9 at
NOON <BUT a free Week 1 extension given until Monday, June 16
at NOON.
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Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Deadline = Tuesday, June 10 but there is a FREE EXTENSION to June 17.. |
1. Introduction to the Course and Each Other
2. Native American Worlds 5. First Settlements in the Southern and Northern Colonies |
These Truths Chapter 1 AND These Truths Chapter 2. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. |
1. "First Encounters: Cortez and the Aztecs" *This is an article that is located on D2L (Materials --> Content) 2. Southern Colonies/Jamestown readings: Click here for assignment.
3. Discovering the American Past, Chapter
2 (Anne Hutchinson) -- VitalSource ebook on
D2L Content.
4. Watch the documentary film:
We Shall Remain, Episode One, "After the Mayflower." You
can find this video loaded into D2L > Materials > Content. |
Week 2:
Tuesday, June 10-Tuesday June 17 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #3. Due next Monday, June 16 at NOON.
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Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Tuesday, June 17 at NOON. |
Unfree labor in the colonies and the "terrible transformation." |
These Truths Chapter 3. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. |
1. Discovering the American Past (DAP) Chapter 3.
VitalShelf 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. 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 are reading. 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 article and interesting graphic map about the scope of the trade in enslaved people. 4. Click here for an optional extra credit assignment due next Tuesday June 17th at NOON. (Reading the rest of the Equiano narrative and writing a short reaction paper.)
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Week 3:
Tuesday June 17-Tuesday, June 24 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #4. Due next Monday, June 23 at NOON.
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Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Tuesday, June 24 at NOON. |
1. The Salem Witch Trials 2. Colonial Society Matures
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These Truths Chapter 4. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content.
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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. Read the general background of the Salem Witch Trials. 3. Skim the trial of Sarah Good. Summarize what her accusers said about her. (A tip: I find, sometimes, that reading these types of "old-fashioned" documents out loud helps with comprehension.) 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) |
Week 4:
Tuesday, June 24-Tuesday July 1 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #5. Due next Monday, June 30 at NOON. |
Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz-- Final Deadline = Tuesday, July 1 at NOON. |
The Road to the Revolution and the American Revolution
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These Truths Chapter 5. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. |
1.
DAP, Chapter 4, VitalShelf 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") 3. The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, Connecticut: Nathan Cole’s Spiritual Travels |
Week 5: Note there is no official July 4th "break" this week. Regular quizzes and discussion post deadlines still apply but the Discussion Quiz reading is a bit lighter than usual.
Tuesday, July 1-Tuesday, July 8 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #6 AND #7 Due next Monday, July 7. |
Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Tuesday, July 8. |
The New Political Order: The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the New Republic (including Hamilton!) |
These Truths Chapter 6 AND Chapter 7. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content.
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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.
3. Next week's reading is on the heavier
side; if you have some free time during the holiday weekend you might
opt to get a start on reading it and/or start watching the next episode of "We
Shall Remain." |
Week 6:Note there is no official July 4th "break" this week. Regular quizzes and discussion post deadlines still apply.
Tuesday, July 8-Tuesday July 15 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #8. Due next Monday, July 14 at NOON. | Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Tuesday, July 15 at NOON. |
Thomas Jefferson Jacksonian Democracy and Moving Westward |
These Truths Chapter 10. *Note this chapter is out of order. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. |
1.
Click here for
a reading assignment about Jefferson. (several articles and
links.) 2. DAP, Chapter 7. VitalShelf ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. 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. 3. "Everything Here is New But the Forests": Englishman Thomas Woodcock Travels to Niagara on the Erie Canal, 1836. 4. Watch "We Shall Remain, Episode 3; Trail of Tears" (1 hour, 12 minutes). You can find this video on D2L Content > Materials.
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Week 7:
Tuesday, July 15 - Tuesday July 22 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #9. Due next Monday, July 21 at NOON. |
Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Tuesday, July 22 at NOON. |
Urbanization, Industrialization,
and 19th Century Immigration 19th Century Religion and Reform |
These Truths Chapter 9 --note this chapter is out of order. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. |
There is indeed a long list of items assigned this week, but each
individual item/link is not particularly long, so it is a manageable
assignment. Once again, I recommend you print them out and take
them one item at a time. Be sure to keep the different reform
movements straight -- i.e. don't confuse dress reform vs. moral reform. IMMIGRATION and URBANIZATION: 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, 15, 18-22. RELIGION AND REFORM: 5. What prompted this wave of reform: DAP, Chapter 8. Read pp. 210 (starting with "The rise of..") - middle of p. 213. VitalShelf ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content
6.
The Second Great Awakening:
7. The Shakers
PDFs of these items have been loaded into D2L Content.
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Week 8:
Tuesday,
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Topics Covered |
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Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Tuesday, July 29 at NOON. | |
Slavery
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NONE
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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 can also read it on-line:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11030
2. Watch "12 Years a Slave" (acquired through a streaming site of
your choice; probably not available to be streamed for free. You
could also request the DVD from a public library near you.)
Click here for a list of characters and a
summary. You might find it helpful to jot down a few notes about each character. Be forewarned: this film is a brutal depiction of life for enslaved people. It is difficult but important viewing. |
Week 9:
Tuesday, July 29 - Tuesday August 5 |
Topics Covered |
Reading for Inquisitive #10 AND #11 due next Monday, August 4 at NOON. |
Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Tuesday, August 5 at NOON. |
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These Truths Chapter 11 AND 12. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content. .
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1. The conflict over the spread of slavery:
Click here for the reading assignment.
(1 longer reading assignment plus 6 shorter items.) 2. John Brown's Raid and the Civil War itself. Click here for the reading assignment. (1 longer reading assignment plus 5 shorter items.) Click here for an optional extra credit assignment due at the end of the class on Friday 8/8. (Reading the Douglass narrative and writing a short reaction paper.) |
Week 10: SHORT WEEK! ENDS FRIDAY AT NOON! SHORTER READING ASSIGNMENT. There is no Final Exam in this class.
Tuesday, |
Topics Covered |
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Readings for Discussion and Discussion Quiz -- Final Deadline = Friday, August 8 at NOON. | |
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These Truths Chapter 13. These Truths is a VitalSource ebook located at D2L Materials --> Content
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2. “A Jubilee of
Freedom”: Freed Slaves March in Charleston, South Carolina, March, 1865
4. The Mississippi Black Codes of 1865. What kinds of laws did Mississippi pass to control the lives of freed people? |