Hist 17A

Course Outline and Assigned Readings

Spring 2008

Tuesday Evenings

Date:

January 15 – Introduction

January 22 – Migrants to the New World; Beginnings of an English Overseas Empire

Assigned Reading: Chaps. 1-2

January 29 – The English Occupy New England

Assigned Reading: Chap. 3

February 5 – The Colonial People Develop New Ways of Life and Thought

Assigned Reading: Chaps. 4-5

Test #1 (Chaps. 1-5)

February 12 – The Struggle Against France and the Beginnings of Revolt

Assigned Reading: Chaps. 6-7

Library Assignment #1 due

February 19 – And the Revolution Came

Assigned Reading: Chap. 8

February 26 – America’s Two Constitutions

Assigned Reading: Chap. 9

Test #2 (Chaps. 6-9)

March 4 – The New Government Begins to Function, Part 1

Assigned Reading: Chap. 10

Library Assignment #2 due

March 11 -- The New Government Begins to Function, Part 2

Assigned Reading: Chap. 11

March 18 – War of 1812; The Rise of Jacksonian Democracy

Assigned Reading: Chaps. 12-13

Test #3 (Chaps. 10-13)

March 25 – No class (Spring Break)

April 1 – Economic and Social Developments

Assigned Reading: Chap. 14

Library Assignment #3 due

April 8 – Revival; A Southern Nation

Assigned Reading: Chap. 15-16

April 15 – Manifest Destiny, the Mexican-American War, and the Growing Sectional Division

Assigned Reading: Chaps. 17-18

Test #4 (Chaps. 14-18)

April 22 – The Union Comes Apart

Assigned Reading: Chap. 19

April 29 – The Civil War, Part 1

Assigned Reading: Chap. 20

Annotated Bibliography Due

May 6 – The Civil War, Part 2

Assigned Reading: Chap. 21

May 13 – Reconstruction

Assigned Reading: Chap. 22

May 20 – Final Exam (Chaps. 19-22) – 8:00-10:00 P.M.