| SCHEDULE OF LECTURES | ||
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| Date | Lecture | |
| First Session | Introduction and Objectives/Course Requirements Settlement of Colonial America |
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| Second Session | Preconditions for Struggle with Great Britain Colonial Protest Drive to Independence |
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| Third Session | Drive to Independence (cont'd.) Experiments in Nationmaking--the Articles of Confederation |
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| Fourth Session | Experiments in Nationmaking--the Constitution | |
| Fifth Session | FIRST EXAMINATION Politics in the Young Republic--the 1790s |
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| Sixth Session | Jeffersonians and "Mr. Madison's War" Post-War "Nationalism" |
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| Seventh Session | Economic Change and a New Politics in the 1820s | |
| Eighth Session | New Politics (cont'd.) "Looking to Yesterday"--Andrew Jackson |
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| Ninth Session | Andrew Jackson (cont'd.) | |
| Tenth Session | SECOND EXAMINATION Antebellum Slavery and the Slaveholding South |
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| Eleventh Session | "To Work in God's Vineyard"--American Antebellum Reform "We Are Architects of Our Destiny"--Abolitionism and Women's Rights |
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| Twelfth Session | ESSAY DUE "Architects" (cont'd.) 1840s, Manifest Destiny, and the "Dose of Arsenic" |
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| Thirteenth Session | 1850s and the Wedges of Separation of the Democracy | |
| Fourteenth Session | The Civil War | |
| Fifteenth Session | FINAL EXAMINATION | |
| SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS | ||
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| Date | Readings/Assignments | |
| First Session | Chapter 1 Chapter 2 |
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| Second Session | Chapter 3 Chapter 4 |
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| Third Session | Chapter 5 Chapter 6 (pp.184-206) |
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| Fourth Session | Chapter 6 (pp.206-215) | |
| Fifth Session | FIRST EXAMINATION Chapter 7 |
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| Sixth Session | Chapter 8 | |
| Seventh Session | Chapter 9 Chapter 12 (pp.376-391) |
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| Eighth Session | Chapter 10 (pp.300-308) | |
| Ninth Session | Chapter 10 (pp.308-329) | |
| Tenth Session | SECOND EXAMINATION Chapter 12 (pp.391-411) |
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| Eleventh Session | Chapter 11 | |
| Twelfth Session | ESSAY DUE | |
| Thirteenth Session | Chapter 13 Chapter 14 |
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| Fourteenth Session | Chapter 15 | |
| Fifteenth Session | FINAL EXAMINATION | |
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