Lecture Topics:

        The following titles are intended only to provide a focus for the day's lecture. In practice it may take more or less than one class period to complete the topic. The lectures will not necessarily coincide with the textbook assignments, nor are they meant to. It is the responsibility of each student to make sure that s/he is informed as to the times of quizzes and other exams and to bring appropriate test materials to class.

COURSE CALENDAR - SPRING, 2016

Date                Lecture Topic                                                Weekly Reading Assignments

                                                                                                  Text = The American Story

                                                                                                  Reader = Voices of America Past and Present

Week 1:

                   Course Introduction                                            Text, Ch. 1. & Reader Ch. 1

                   When Old Worlds collide

Week 2:

                    The Challenge to Spain                                       Text, Ch. 2 & Reader Ch. 2

Week 3:

                     England Discovers its Colonies                         Text, Ch. 3 & Reader Ch. 3

Week 4:

                     Provincial America                                               Text, Ch. 4 & Reader Ch. 4

Week 5:

                     Reform, Resistance, Revolution                          Text, Ch. 5 & Reader Ch. 5

Week 6:

                     The Revolutionary Republic                                Text, Ch. 6 & Reader Ch. 6

                      Feb. 23  (Tuesday) - STUDY GUIDE FOR MID-TERM EXAM POSTED

Week 7:

                      The Democratic Republic 1790-1820                   Text, Ch. 7 & Reader Ch. 7        

                      Mar. 3  (Thursday) - MID-TERM EXAMINATION - Bring small Green Scantron

Week 8:

                            SPRING BREAK 3/7 - 3/11 - NO CLASSES

Week 9:

                        Completing the Revolution 1789-1815                 Text, Ch. 8 & Reader Ch. 8

Week 10:

                        The Market Revolution  1850 - 1860                    Text, Ch. 9 & Reader Ch. 9

Week 11:

                        Toward an American Culture                               Text, Ch. 10 & Reader Ch. 10

Week 12:

                        Society, Culture and Politics 1820s - 1840s         Text, Ch. 11 & Reader Ch. 11

                        APRIL 1st - LAST DAY FOR STUDENT INITIATED DROP WITH GRADE OF "W"

Week 13:

                        Jacksonian Democracy                                           Text, Ch. 12 & Reader Ch. 12

Week 14:

                        Manifest Destiny                                                     Text, Ch. 13 & Reader Ch. 13

Week 15:

                        The Gathering Tempest 1853 - 1860                     Text, Ch. 14 & Reader Chs. 14 & 15

                         Apr. 26 (Tuesday) - STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM POSTED                                      

Week 16:

                        Secession, Civil War & Renewal 1860-1865         Text, Ch. 15 (Ch. 15 material will be on final exam)

EXTRA CREDIT PAPERS DUE May 5th - Last Day of Class

FINAL EXAMINATION - BRING SMALL GREEN SCANTRON

9:00 - 10:20 Class  Tuesday, May 10th..................... 10:00 - 12:45 in UGLC 128

10:30 - 11:50 Class  Thursday, May 12th................. 10:00 - 12:45 in UGLC 346

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