On-Line History 2211 Schedule of Readings

**ON-LINE COURSE**

U.S. History I
HIST 2211
Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Spring 2010

Schedule of Readings

Syllabus

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Abbreviations used:
DAP=Discovering the American Past

Week 1/ Syllabus Quiz + Quiz 1:

Tuesday, January 12

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

1. Introduction to the Course and Each Other

2. Native American Worlds

3. The Age of Exploration and First Encounters

Discovering the American Past, Chapter 1.

America, Chapter 1

*Note-taking Guide*

Week 2/ Quiz 2:

Tuesday, January 19

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

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

2. First Settlements in the Southern Colonies

1. Early Jamestown Readings: Click here for assignment.

2. Discovering the American Past, Chapter 3

3. Introduction to next week's topic: The Northern Colonies. This assignment is to watch the documentary film: We Shall Remain, Episode One, "After the Mayflower." (1 hour, 13 minutes in length.) Click here for a note-taking guide. We will begin to discuss the Northern Colonies this week and continue the reading/discussion next week. (Even though this is not a "reading" per se, you will be quizzed on the material in this film.)

America, Chapter 2, p. 36-52.

*Note-taking Guide*

Week 3/ Quiz 3:

Tuesday, January 26	Topics Covered	Readings for Discussion and Quizzes	Text Reading for Background
	1. The Northern Colonies 2. Religion in Puritan America 3. Salem Witch Trials	1. Discovering the American Past (DAP) Chapter 2. 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)	America, Chapter 2, p. 52-65. Note-taking Guide

Week 4/ Quiz 4:

Tuesday, February 2

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

Unfree Labor in the Southern Colonies

1. "The Life of Olaudah Equiano/Gustavus Vassa" in Classic Slave Narratives

Red/New Editions, pages: 29-63, 99-118, 227-242.

Yellow/Older Editions, pages: 11-38, 66-81, 167-178.
[You can read the summaries of each chapter if you wish to follow the story throughout.]

2. Understanding the "terrible transformation." Click here for the reading assignment.

3. Click here for an optional extra credit assignment due next Tuesday the 9th. (Reading the rest of the Equiano narrative and writing a short reaction paper.)

America, Chapter 3, pp. 74-85.
*Note-taking Guide*

Week 5/ Quiz 5:

Tuesday, February 9

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

Colonial Society Matures

1. "The Sum of the Colonial Experience," on e-RESERVE in the Library.

Click here for information about e-Reserve and for our class password.

2. The Great Awakening Comes to Weathersfield, Connecticut: Nathan Cole’s Spiritual Travels

America, Chapter 3, p. 66-73, 86-95, Chapter 4 (entire)
*Note-taking Guide*

Week 6/ Quiz 6:

Tuesday, February 16	Topics Covered	Readings for Discussion and Quizzes	Text Reading for Background
	1. Road to the Revolution 2. The American Revolution	1. DAP, Chapter 4 2. An Account of a Soldier at the Battle of Yorktown	America, Chapter 5, 6. Note-taking Guide

Week 7/ Quiz 7:

Tuesday, February 23

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

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

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.

It would help to review America, Chapter 6 before you begin this week's readings, focusing on pp. 177-190. Be sure you understand these terms:

*Articles of Confederation (what were the
weaknesses?)
*Shay's Rebellion
*The Constitution
*Federalists vs. Anti-federalists

*Note-taking Guide*

Week 8/ Quiz 8

Tuesday, March 2	Topics Covered	Readings for Discussion and Quizzes	Text Reading for Background
	Thomas Jefferson	Click here for the reading assignment.	America, Chapter 6, 7. Note-taking Guide

MIDTERM is next week (Midterm covers Weeks 1-8; Jefferson readings WILL be on the midterm)
The midterm will be available from Noon on Wednesday, March 10 to Noon on Thursday, March 11.

Week 9/ Quiz 9:

Tuesday, March 9

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

Jacksonian Democracy and Moving Westward

1. DAP, Chapter 6.

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)

Text Reading: America, Chapter 8, also Chapter 10, pp. 296-307.

*Note-taking Guide*

[THE ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK NINE HAVE TWO WEEKS TO COMPLETE DUE TO SPRING BREAK. THE QUIZ AND DISCUSSION DEADLINE IS TUESDAY, 3/23.]

Week 10/ Quiz 10:

Tuesday, March 23

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

1. Urbanization and Industrialization

2. 19th Century Immigration

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, read at least TWO articles from that month.

3. DAP, Chapter 7.

4. Watch this short (3 min.) video about the Irish potato famine migrants. Click here, and click "watch the video."

Begin assignment in Classic Slave Narratives (see 3/30)

Text Reading: America, Chapter 9.

*Note-taking Guide*

Week 11/Quiz 11:

Tuesday, March 30	Topics Covered	Readings for Discussion and Quizzes	Text Reading for Background
	Slavery	1. FINISH "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" in Classic Slave Narratives. We will discuss the entire narrative. 2. Bennet Barrow's Diary, Selections Read approximately the first half of the document (the diary itself) and then skim the last portion (the Rules of Highland Plantation)	America, Chapter 12. Note-taking Guide

Week 12/Quiz 12:

Tuesday, April 6

Topics Covered

Readings for Discussion and Quizzes

Text Reading for Background

19th Century Religion and Reform

*I suggest you complete the text reading in America before beginning these readings so you'll have some background knowledge.

1. What prompted this wave of reform:
The Second Great Awakening:
“The Meeting Continued All Night, Both by the White & Black People”: Georgia Camp Meeting, 1807

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

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

4a. Moral Reform.
Read an Introduction to this Topic HERE.
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4b. Moral Reform.
Choose ONE document from the Document List. Some students should choose ones towards the bottom of the list so we are not all reading the first one.
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5a. Dress Reform.
Read an introduction to the topic here.
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5b. Dress Reform.
Document 2, Catharine Beecher.
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[If you are curious, you can scroll down the Document List and see some images of dress reform.]

6. Women's Rights
Read the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Convention in Seneca Falls.

America, Chapter 11.

*Note-taking Guide*

Week 13/Quiz 13:

Tuesday, April 13	Topics Covered	Readings for Discussion and Quizzes	Text Reading for Background
	The Conflict Over Slavery	Click here for the reading assignment. Click here for the optional extra credit assignment due next Tuesday the 20th. (Reading the Douglass narrative and writing a short reaction paper.)	America, Chapter 13. Note-taking Guide