HOUSTON COMMUNITR COLLEGE
History 1302 TTh 1:00-3:00pm Reconstruction to Present
Spring 2015 SS Gay Hall Rm. 101
Instructor: Baines Alton R.
Email: Alton.Baines@Hccs.edu
Phone# (713) 718-6063 or 6400 (832)890-3542
Required Text: American Promise Vol. 2 6th ed
Roark James L. et. al.
Suggested Readers: Only Yesterday & Three Lives for Mississippi.
Course Description:
This course is a brief survey of the social, political, and cultural history of the
United States with special emphasis on institution and events which transformed
America from a war torn country to the most powerful country in the world.
Description of Course activities:
The class will consist of class lectures, book reviews (oral and written) presentation,
test, and a historical paper. Students are required to participate in all activities or
your grade will reflect it.
Course Objectives;
Upon Completion of this course you will be able to
1. Explain the reconstruction era hopes and failures
2. Describe the Foundation of American Industrialization and the development
of America big business
3. Describe the conflict between Native American and Manifest Destiny
4. Explain the roles that African American, Native American, Women,
Hispanics and other minorities contributed to the story of American History.
5. Understand the United States and it’s interventions in World Wars
6. The great depression and the new Deal
7. The Kennedy-Johnson years, The Civil Rights era and in our times
History 1302 will cover the following materials:
1. The reconstruction Era
2. The rise of industrialization
3. The development of the west
4. The United States and World War
5. The Roaring Twenties
6. The Great Depression and the New Deal
7. The Regan, Bush and Clinton Presidencies
Course Requirements:
There will be four sectional test and a final exam, a historical research paper and
two extra credit papers. If all assignment are completed the lowest grade will be
dropped from average.
Grading scale
90-100=A
80-89 =B
75-79 =C
70-74 =D
00-69 =F
Please note that the Instructor Reserve the right to make any necessary corrections.
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Any student with a documented disability, (i.e. physical, learning psychiatric, visual,
hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodation must contact the
disability service office at the respective college at the beginning of each semester.
Faculty is authorized to provide only the accommodation requested by the disability
service office. The counselors for the Central and Stafford campus will assist you.
EGLS,.. Evaluation for Greater Learning student Survey System
At Houston Community College, professors believe that thoughtful student feedback
is necessary to improve teaching and learning. During a designated time, you will be
able to answer a short online survey of researched based questions related to the
instruction. The anonymous result of the survey will be made available to your
professors and division chairs for continual improvement of instructions. Look for
the survey as part of the Houston Community College Student System online near
the end of the term.
Course Introduction
Tue 2-17-15
Unit 1: Chapter 16 Reconstruction. The Turning Point That Never Turned
War time Reconstruction
Presidential Reconstruction, Radical Reconstruction and The Grant
Administration.
Retreat from Reconstruction and the New South.
Thurs 2-19 Chapter 17: Conquest of the West & The Politics of The New Order.
Old and New Industries
Chap. 18 The Railroad, Andrew Carnegie and steel, john Rockefeller and oil
From competition to consolidation, Capitalism and Social Darwinism and European
Immigration
Tue 2-24 The mining frontier and The Cattle kingdom.
Thurs 2-26 Chap. 19 Imperialism
Tue 3-2 Review For Test 1
Thurs. 3-4 Test 1
Unit 2: The Progressive Era Chap 20
Tue 3-10 America Quest For and Empire, The Mahan Thesis and The Spanish
American War.
Thurs 3-12 Chapter 21 The Progressive at High Tide
Progressive Idea and Goals, Women Suffrage and the Wilson Administration
Spring Break 3-16-3-22-2015
Tue 3-24 Chap 22 The Great War World War I
The outbreak of the war, the declaration of war, and the home front
Thurs 3-26 Chapter 23 The Roaring Twenties
Division in American Lives and life in the twenties
Tue 3-31 Review for Test 2
Thurs 4-2 Test 2
Book Review 2 Due
Unit 3: Chapter 24 The Great Depression and the New Deal
Tue 4-7 Herbert Hover and the Depression
FDR and the New Deal
Chapter 25 The Good War World War II
Thurs 4-9 From neutrality to War
Atomic booms and the end of the war
Chap 26
Tue 4-14 Review for Test 3
Thurs 4-16 test 3
UNIT 4
Tue 4-21
Chapter 27 The Cold War: The Truman Eisenhower years
The Truman Presidency and the beginning of the Civil rights movement
Chap 28 Reform Rebellion and Reaction
Thurs 4-23 Chap 29 From Hope to Despair The Kennedy Johnson Years
The Kennedy Administration and a decade of assassinations
Johnson and his Great society, Vietnam and civil rights
Chapter 30: America moves to the right
The Nixon, Ford, Carter years
Nixon Man on the Moon and Watergate
Ford and the fall of South Vietnam
Carter and Camp David
Tue 4-30 Review for Test 4
Thurs 5-2 Test 4
Chap 31 The rise of Conservatism: Reagan to Clinton
Tue 5-7 Research Paper Due
Thurs 5-9 Conclusion Finish Book
President Obama and A divided America
Turn in all unfinished work
Final Exam week 5-12-5-16