DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, 512:103 B1
SUMMER 2004,
SCOTT 205
Monday-Thursday (Tuesday, June 1, 2004- Thursday, July 8, 2004) - no
class Monday, July 5th
This class is designed to provide you with a broad overview of American history from its Indian, African, and European origins to the fighting of the Civil War. There will be daily lectures, but every class will involve discussion, and student participation is expected and required.
Each student is required to:
(1) Complete the daily reading assignments according to the schedule below. There will be several QUIZZES based on vocabulary or concepts from the text, A People and a Nation (P&N). (10%)
(2) Write one paper (3-5 pages) on Wayne's Death of an Overseer and several essays (1-2 pages) on assignments in 1741 and Going to the Source (30%). Note: Plagiarism is a violation of academic integrity and all cases will be reported immediately to the dean of a student's college. Please see the deparatment definition at: http://history.rutgers.edu/undergrad/plagiarism.htm
(3) Take a mid-term and a final (50%).
(4) Participate in discussion and complete several short assignments on daily readings (10%).
(5) Attend class. Attendance is taken and more than two unexcused absences will lower your grade one letter grade. Four unexcused absences will result in failure. Arriving more than 5 minutes late counts as half an absence. Leaving early without discussing with the instructor is an absence. Students with no unexcused absenses will receive three bonus points on the final exam. Excused absenses require written references and include medical emergencies, a death in the family, and court appearances. Students missing class for a religious holiday must notify the instructor.
The reading and paper assignments are drawn from the following four books, all of which should be purchased at the University Bookstore:
Mary Beth Norton, et al., A People and a Nation,
Vol. I: Brief
6th Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).
(ISBN:
0618214690). Listed as P&N.
Victoria Brown and Timothy Shannon, Going to the Source:
The Bedford Reader in American History, Volume I
(Bedford/St. Martin's, 2004). ISBN: 0-312-40204-X. Noted
below as GTS.
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Date Class Topic and Reading
June 1 (Tu) Columbus:
Discovery and Invasion of the "New World"
Assignment: "French Engraving, 1575"
June 2 (W) Who
Settled America: European and African Origins
P&N, Ch. 1
GTS, Ch. 2
June 3 (Th) The
English Arrive
P&N, Ch. 2
GTS, Ch. 3
June 7 (M) The
Indians' New World
Discussion: GTS, Ch. 3 & 4
(essay due)
GTS, Ch. 4
NY Conspiracy, pp. 1-40
June 8 (Tu) Southern
Colonies
P&N, Ch. 3
NY Conspiracy, pp.
41-92
June 9 (W) Puritan
New England
NY Conspiracy, pp.
92-159
June 14 (M) Coming
of the American Revolution
P&N, Ch. 5
GTS, Ch. 5
June 15 (Tu) American
Revolution
P&N, Ch. 6
GTS, Ch. 6
June 16 (W) Experiments
at Nation Building: State and federal Constitutions
P&N, Ch. 7
GTS, Ch. 7
June 17 (Th)
Mid-Term
Exam
June 21 (M) Experiments
at Nation Building: State and Federal Constitutions
P&N, Ch. 7
GTS, Ch. 7
June 22 (Tu) Creating
a New Nation: Jefferson and Hamilton
P&N, Ch. 8
GTS, Ch. 8
June 23 (W) Defining
an Empire of Liberty
P&N, Ch. 9
Death Overseer, pp.
3-59
Identification Quiz:
Lectures Coming of the Revolution
to Creating a New Nation
June 24 (Th) Northern
Society
P&N, Ch, 10, 12
Death Overseer, pp. 61-117
Internet Assignment Due
June 28 (M) The
World the Slaves Made
P&N, Ch. 11
Death Overseer, pp. 113-178
GTS, Ch. 10
June 29 (Tu) Jacksonian
Politics and the 2nd Party System
P&N, Ch. 13
Death Overseer, pp.
179-194
June 30 (W) Revivals
and Reform
Identification Quiz: lectures: Empire of Liberty
to Jacksonian Politics
July 1 (Th) Slavery
in the Territories
GTS, Ch. 12
PAPER DUE on 1741 and Death of an Overseer
July 6 (Tu) Lincoln-Douglas
Debate/Coming
of the Civil War
July 7 (W) The
Civil War
P&N, Ch. 14
July 8 (Th) Final Examination
Revised June 22, 2004