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Last updated: August 31, 2020
Date | Format | Topic | Read to Prepare for Class | Do to Prepare for Class |
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Fri., Sept. 4 | Zoom | Introduction to the Course |
Unit 1: Contacts and Colonies
Date | Format | Topic | Read to Prepare for Class | Do to Prepare for Class |
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Tue., Sep. 8 | Zoom | The Indigenous Americas | American Yawp, ch. 1
During class: |
Chapter quiz; Module on secondary sources |
Fri., Sep. 11 | Remote | Colliding Cultures | American Yawp, ch. 2 | Chapter quiz; Module on primary sources |
Tue., Sep. 15 | Zoom | Cultural Encounters |
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Journal entry |
Fri., Sep. 18 | Remote | Becoming British America | American Yawp, ch. 3 | Chapter quiz; Module on Writing in Your Own Words |
Tue., Sep. 22 | Zoom | Imperial Growing Pains | Journal entry | |
Fri., Sep. 25 | Remote | The Maturing Colonies | American Yawp, ch. 4 | Chapter quiz; Module on Writing Effective History Papers |
Tue., Sep. 29 | Zoom | Society and Culture in Colonial America | Journal entry |
Unit 2: American Revolutions
Date | Format | Topic | Read to Prepare for Class | Do to Prepare for Class |
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Fri., Oct. 2 | Remote | The Imperial Crisis and Independence | American Yawp, ch. 5 | Chapter quiz |
Tue., Oct. 6 | Zoom | A War for Independence | Newspaper exercise due; Journal entry | |
Fri., Oct. 9 | Remote | New Politics for a New Nation |
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Chapter quiz |
Tue., Oct. 13 | Zoom | Creating a Republic |
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Journal entry |
Fri., Oct. 16 | Remote | An Empire for Liberty? |
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Chapter quiz |
Tue., Oct. 20 | Zoom | The Meaning of Independence |
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Journal entry |
Fri., Oct. 23 | Remote | Revolutions: Markets, Transportation, Communication |
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Chapter quiz |
Tue., Oct. 27 | Zoom | Uncovering Marginalized Voices |
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Journal entry |
Fri., Oct. 30 | Remote | The Age of Jackson? | American Yawp, ch. 9 | Chapter quiz |
Tue., Nov. 3 | Zoom | Democracy for Some | Journal entry |
Unit 3: A Growing and Divided Nation
Date | Format | Topic | Read to Prepare for Class | Do to Prepare for Class |
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Fri., Nov. 6 | Remote | Revivals and Reform | American Yawp, ch. 10 | Chapter quiz |
Tue., Nov. 10 | Zoom | Reform Movements in the Antebellum North | Revolutionary era project; Journal entry | |
Fri., Nov. 13 | Remote | Cotton and Slavery | American Yawp, ch. 11 | Chapter quiz |
Tue., Nov. 17 | Zoom | Manifest Destiny |
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Chapter quiz; Journal entry |
Fri., Nov. 20 | Remote | Sections Dividing | American Yawp, ch. 13 | Chapter quiz |
Tue., Nov. 24 | Zoom | The Final Crisis | Journal entry | |
Fri., Nov. 27 | No class meeting | Thanksgiving Recess | ||
Tue., Dec. 1 | Zoom | The Civil War | American Yawp, ch. 14
During class: |
Chapter quiz |
Fri., Dec. 4 | Remote | Reconstruction in America | American Yawp, ch. 15 | Chapter quiz |
Tue., Dec. 8 | Zoom | A New Birth of Freedom? |
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Journal entry |
Fri., Dec. 11 | Remote | America in 1877 | Final exam review: availability on Zoom |