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Course Information

Syllabus

Class Calendar

Fall semester calendar 2009-2010

Unit Overviews (replete with overarching questions, major assignments, and other lovely things)

(text chapters in parentheses)

I The Origins of the American Identity: Colonialism and the Revolution (1-4)-

II The Great Experiment Forced: Ushering forth a New Nation (4-6)

III Forging the New Nation: The Jeffersonian Era and the New Nationalism (7-8)

IV The Expanding Democratic Nation: The Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (9 and 13 from p.344 to p.355)

V The New American Society Examined: 1800 to 1861 (7, 10-12)

VI A Nation Defined by Crisis: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction (13 from p. 335 through Chapter 15

VII The Gilded Age Part I

VIII The Gilded Age Part II

IX The New Imperialism’Äì

X The Progressive Era (21-22)

XI New War, New Society: America’Äôs Tumultuous Journey into the Modern Era ( 23-24)

XII The Great Depression and the New Deal (25-26)

XIII Faces of War: WWII (27-28)

XIV: Happy and Paranoid: Affluent 50s and the Cold War (29-30)

XV A Nation in Conflict: The Stormy Sixties and the Stalemated Seventies (30-31) We’Äôll read about the Eighties later.

Writing History

(Information on how to write free response and DBQ essays, grading rubrics, research papers and the unexpected)