Course Outline:
Week Chapter/Subject Historical Document(s) Current Article Connections
1 Go over Syllabus expectations, pass out books,
Introduction to the course.
2 1-New World Encounters
2 2-New World Experiments: England’s 17thCentury Colonies
3 3-Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society
4 4-Experience of Empire: 18th Century America
5 5-The American Revolution
6 6-The Republican Experiment
7 7-Democracy and Dissent: The Violence of Party Politics
8 8-Republican Ascendancy, The Jeffersonian Vision
9 9-Nation building and Nationalism
10 10-The Triumph of Democracy (for Whites)
11 11-Slaves and Masters
12 12-The Pursuit of Perfection
13 13-Expansion
14 14-Sectionalism
15 15-Secession and the Civil War
16 16-Reconstruction
17 17-Explotation by the West
18 18-Industrialization
18 19-Urbanization
19 20-Political Realignments
20 21-American Empire
21 22-Progressive Era
21 23-Progressive leadership
22 24-WWI
23 25-Modernizing
24 26-FDR and New Deal
25 27-1921-1945 Isolationism to WWII
26 28-Cold War
27 29-Affluence
28 30-1960’s
29 31-Neo-Conservatism
30 32-Road to 21st Century (Bush to Bush)
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