University of Colorado at Denver

Course Syllabus

Fall 2006

 

HIST 1361-3.  U. S. History to 1876.  Provides an introduction to the major forces, events, and individuals that shaped the historical development of American society, beginning with the European settlement of America and concluding with the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early growth of an industrial order.

 

3 Credit Hours

 

Instructor:

Cynthia A. Kanuch, M.A.

Room 313

Calhan High School

(719) 347-2766 ext. 313

Office hours:  3:00 – 4:00 Tuesday thru Friday, or by appointment

 

Schedule:

Class meets daily, Tuesday through Friday, from 11:24 to 12:24, beginning August 11 through December 20. 

 

Registration:

Register online at www.cudenver.edu/cusucceed/

Pre-registration – August 15, 2006

Registration (must receive student id and pin number from Registrar before you will be allowed to register) deadline September 25, 2006

Male students who will turn 18 during the semester must register with Selective Service prior to registration (www.sss.gov)

Instructor approval is required to add or drop the course.

Questions or concerns:

            Nicole Kelly

            CU Succeed Program Coordinator

            Phone:  (303) 556-6140

            Email:   Nicole.Kelly@cudenver.edu

 

                                                                                               

Course Description and Objectives:

This course is a survey of the history of the United States of America from the Pre-Columbian beginnings through the Civil War, and concluding with Reconstruction and the early growth of an industrial order.

 

To complete the course successfully, students will:

• Define and analyze key terms, ideas, and concepts of United States history from Pre-Colombian Times to 1876.  (List of terms follows.)
• Demonstrate, though well-constructed essay responses, an understanding of the interplay of term, ideas, and concepts as well as the ability to analyze and evaluate historical events from a personal perspective.  (Sample essay questions.)
• Examine and evaluate selected scholarly works in relation to their presentation of key terms, ideas, and concepts in United States history from Pre-Colombian time to 1876.
• Analyze historical events, trends, and actions with an understanding of nine repeatedly occurring themes:  Diversity and the National Identity; America in World Affairs; Economic Opportunities; Science and Technology; Women and Political Power; Immigration and Migration; States’ Rights; Voting Rights; and Civil Rights.
• Recognize when geographical forces are at work in the history of the United States by considering the geographical themes of:  Location; Place; Region; Human-Environment Interaction; and Movement.
• Evaluate and analyze, through discussions and written assignments the multiple perspectives presented through a wide selection of primary sources.

 

General Class Policies:

Students are expected to attend all classes.  Absences are excused or unexcused.  If a student has an excused absence, he/she will be responsible for inquiring about assignments missed, and returning completed work within the time allowed in the student handbook.  Students with unexcused absences will not be permitted to make up missed assignments.  Excessive absenteeism can result in a student being dropped from the class.

 

Students are expected to meet all assignment due dates.  Late work will not be accepted.

 

Students are expected to arrive at class prepared with the required textbook, additional reading assignments, notebook for note-taking, binder, and pens/pencils.

 

Students are expected to complete all assigned readings prior to the class meeting and to participate actively in all class discussions.  Outlined notes will be available on the web site.  Students should either acquire a copy of those notes, or outline the readings for themselves prior to class.  During the class discussion, notes can be further refined.  Class discussions will be conducted in a respectful manner.  Each student is entitled to his or her own opinion and point of view.  Students will meet differing viewpoints with respect and consideration.  History abounds with opposing viewpoints.  One person’s hero is another’s ogre.  Both perspectives have importance and validity.

 

Required Text:

George Brown Tindall and David E. Shi, America:  A Narrative History.

Additional readings for this class will be a compilation of selected books, book chapters, articles, essays, and primary documents.

 

 

 

 

Assessment/Grading Procedures:

Attendance                   10%

Assignments                 20%

Research Essays (2)     20%

Unit Tests (3)               30%

Final Exam                   20%

 

Grading Scale:

A         90% - 100%

B          80% - 89%

C         70% - 79%

D         60% - 69%

F          59% and below

 

Content Outline:

 

Unit One:  A New World  - Tindall chapters 1 through 5  The Collision of Cultures, England and Its Colonies, Colonial Ways of Life, The Imperial Perspective,  From Empire to Independence

 

Unit One Test

 

Unit Two:  Building a Nation – Tindall chapters 6 through 9 The American Revolution, Shaping a Federal Union, The Federalist Era, The Early Republic

 

Unit Two Test

 

Unit Three:  An Expansive Nation – Tindall chapters 10 through 14  Nationalism and Sectionalism, The Jacksonian Impulse, The Dynamics of Growth, An American Renaissance:  Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, Manifest Destiny

 

Unit Three Test

 

Unit Four:  A House Divided and Rebuilt – Tindal chapters 15 through 18 The Old South, The Crisis of Union, The War of the Union, Reconstruction:  North and South

 

Comprehensive Final Exam

 

Terms:

Chapter 1:  Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Great Biological Exchange, John Cabot, Hernan Cortés, conquistador, encomienda system, Pueblo Indians, Juan Ponce de León, Juan de Oñate, mestizo, Popé, Giovanni da Verrazano, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Louis Jolliet, Pére Jacques Marquette, Robert Cavalier, Francis Drake, “Sea Dogges,” Spanish Armada.

 

Chapter 2:  Roanoke Island, Jamestown, Powhatan, John Smith, John Rolfe, tobacco, Pocahontas, “headright” policy, Maryland, Puritans, Plymouth Colony, John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Pequot War, King Philip’s War, Yemasee War, Iroquois League, William Penn, James Oglethorpe.

 

Chapter 3:  headright, indentured servant, staple crop, American creole, balance of trade, “invisible” charges, “triangular trade,” covenant theory, Half-Way Covenant, Scotch-Irish, John Peter Zenger, Deists, John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield.

 

Chapter 4:  mercantilism, Navigation Acts, Lords of Trade, Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros, Glorious Revolution, William and Mary, John Locke, contract theory of government, writs of assistance, Board of Trade, Hanoverian monarchs, Robert Walpole, “salutary neglect,” Bacon’s Rebellion, William Berkeley, Acadians, Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War, French and Indian War, Fort Necessity, Albany Congress, Peace of Paris 1763.

 

Chapter 5:  George Grenville, Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Virginia Resolves, Stamp Act Congress, Whig ideology, virtual representation, external and internal taxes, William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Townshend Acts, Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer, Samuel Adams, Sons of Liberty, Boston Massacre, Crispus Attucks, Paxton Boys, Regulators, Gaspee, Boston Tea Party, Committees of Correspondence, Coercive Acts, Continental Congress, Tories, Continental Association, Lexington and Concord, Battle of Bunker Hill, Olive Branch Petition, Common Sense, Thomas Paine, Declaration of Independence, Hessians.

 

Chapter 6:  The American Crisis, Hessians, Loyalists, Whigs, militia, Continental Army, Battle of Saratoga, Henry Clinton, George Rogers Clark, Horatio Gates, Lord Cornwallis, Battle of King’s Mountain, sovereignty, John Paul Jones, Battle of Yorktown, Peace of Paris, republican ideology, Articles of Confederation, Constitutional Convention, Noah Webster.

 

Chapter 7:  Critical Period, Articles of Confederation, Robert Morris, Land Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance, The Wealth of Nations, Shay’s Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, James Wilson, checks and balances, Virginia and New Jersey Plans, the Great Compromise, Nationalists (Federalists) and Antifederalists, separation of powers, Charles A. Beard, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, No. 10.

 

Chapter 8:  Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Bill of Rights, Report on a National Bank, Report on Manufacturers, implied powers, Federalists, Republicans, Citizen Genet, Jay’s Treaty, Whiskey Rebellion, Pinckney’s Treaty, land policy, Wilderness Road, Daniel Boone, squatters, John Adams, XYZ Affair, Alien and Sedition Acts, Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, interposition, nullification.

 

Chapter 9:  Revolution of 1800, Marbury v. Madison, “midnight appointments,”  Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark expedition, Essex Junto, Burr Conspiracy, John Randolph of Roanoke, Tertium Quid, Aaron Burr, judicial review, executive privilege, embargo, Non-Intercourse Act, Macon’s Bill No. 2, War Hawks, Oliver H. Perry, William Henry Harrison, Fort McHenry, Battle of New Orleans.

 

Chapter 10:  Bank of the United States (second), Tariff of 1816, “Era of Good Feelings,” John C. Calhoun, James Monroe, internal improvements, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Tallmadge amendments, John Marshall, judicial review, Dartmouth College v. Woodward, McCulloch v. Maryland, Gibbons v. Ogden, Monroe Doctrine, “corrupt bargain,” John Quincy Adams, Tariff of 1824, South Carolina Exposition and Protest, Rachel Jackson.

 

Chapter 11:  “age of the common man,” spoils system, Martin Van Buren, Peggy Eaton, John C. Calhoun, Maysville Road Bill, nullification, Tariff of Abominations, South Carolina Exposition and Protest, Webster-Hayne Debate, “Trail of Tears,” Daniel Webster, Nullification Proclamation, Henry Clay, Force Bill, Worcester v. Georgia, Nicholas Biddle, Bank of the United States, Anti-Masonic party, “pet banks,” Distribution Act, Whigs, Independent Treasury, “Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign,” William Henry Harrison.

 

Chapter 12:  Eli Whitney, cotton gin, John Deere, Preemption Act of 1830, Wilderness Road, turnpikes, steamboats, Robert Fulton, Erie Canal, Cyrus McCormick, Samuel F. B. Morse, Lowell system, minstrel show, nativism, Know-Nothing Party, Commonwealth v. Hunt, “literacy revolution,” John Jacob Astor.

 

Chapter 13:  deism, Unitarianism, Universalism, Second Great Awakening, Charles Grandison Finney, Mormons, Brigham Young, romanticism, Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods, “Civil Disobedience,”  Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Horace Greeley, Horace Mann, Oberlin College, temperance, Dorothea Lynde Dix, “cult of domesticity,” Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, utopian community, Oneida Community, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, John Humphrey Noyes, phalanxes.

 

Chapter 14:  John Tyler, Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Manifest Destiny, Great Plains, creole, mestizo, Franciscans, Santa Fe Trail, Overland Trail, Donner Party, John Charles Fremont, Stephen F. Austin, Battle of the Alamo, Sam Houston, Santa Anna, Liberty party, “Fifty-four forty or fight,” Zachary Taylor, Stephan W. Kearny, Winfield Scott, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, James K. Polk.

 

Chapter 15:  Old South, planter, yeoman farmer, “lazy diseases,” free blacks, Nat Turner, black belt, Old Southwest, Celia, abolitionism, gradual emancipation, American Colonization Society, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Grimke sisters, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Underground Railroad, “gag rule,” Liberty Party, George Fitzhugh.

 

Chapter 16:  Wilmot Proviso, popular sovereignty, Free-Soil Party, “conscience” Whigs and “cotton” Whigs, Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, fire eaters, Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Gadsden Purchase, Republican party, “bleeding” Kansas, John Brown, Pottawatomie Massacre, Charles Sumner, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Roger Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Lecompton Constitution, Freeport Doctrine, Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, John C. Breckenridge, Abraham Lincoln, John Bell, Ordinance of Secession, Jefferson Davis, Crittenden Compromise.

 

Chapter 17:  writ of habeas corpus, Robert E. Lee, Battle of Bull Run, Merrimack and Monitor, Battle of Shiloh, Jefferson Davis, Eastern and Western Theaters, George B. McClellan, Ulysses S. Grant, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Emancipation Proclamation, Clara Barton, greenbacks, Copperheads, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, William T. Sherman, Battle of Chattanooga, Appomattox Court House.

 

Chapter 18:  Freedmen’s Bureau, Wade-Davis Bill, pocket veto, “iron clad” oath, Black Codes, John Wilkes Booth, Radical Republicans, Andrew Johnson, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Fourteenth Amendment, Military Reconstruction Act, Command of the Army Act, Tenure of Office Act, carpetbaggers and scalawags, Ku Klux Klan, Ulysses S. Grant, hard and soft money, Liberal Republicans, Jay Gould, Credit-Mobilier, Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel J. Tilden, Compromise of 1877.