Syllabus, Assignments and Tests
“On your own” due on date listed
Dec. 2nd - read: book: 3 chapters: 31 - get a start on next week’s reading
Topic: Mutiny, British Campaign, Yorktown, Treaty of Paris
Dec 9th - paper due
Dec. 9th - read: book: 3 chapters: 32, 35-42 and pages 160 and 168
Take home test due next week on Revolutionary War
Topic: Mutiny, Constitution, Federalist and Anti- Federalist, Shay’s rebellion
Dec. 16th - read: book: 4 chapters: 1,2,3
On your own - check out website on the French revolution - write-up a summary
Topic: Washington, France or England, whiskey rebellion
Jan 6th - read: book: 4 chapters: 5,6,7,8,9
Topic: Adams, Aliens, Judges, Haiti 1791- 1804z
Jan 13th - read: book: 4 chapters: 9,10,11,12
Take home test on the Constitution, Washington, Adams and Jefferson
Topic: Jefferson, Lewis, Burr
Jan 20 th - read: book: 4 chapters: 13, 15
On own your :Research one influential writer/ person to be assigned in class: Thoreau, Harriet
Tubman, Charles Darwin, Charles Dicken, Edgar Allen Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Allen Pinkerton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - brief biography and how they influenced their society -discuss
in class next week
Topic: Madison, war of 1812, Tecumseh
Jan 27th - read: book: 4 chapters: 16, 17, 18 book 5 chapter 3, 29
On your own: research one American rebellion and write a summary to be discussed next class
(assigned in class): Nat Turner's rebellion, John Brown's rebellion, Gabriel’s rebellion, Stono rebellions,
Bible riots (Philadelphia), Baltimore mob (1812), Denmark Vessy’s Rebellion, Fort Blout rebellion, slave
rebellion in St. John the Baptist Parish
Topic: Monroe, Florida, JQA, famous deaths, Santa Fe trail, Audubon
Feb 3rd - read: book: 4 chapters: 14,19,23,24,25 preface book 5. book 5 chapter 30
Topic: Jackson/ Indians/ Slavery, Amistad
Feb 10th - read: book: 4 chapters: 20,21,22, Book 5 chapter 5,6, 17
Take home test on last Madison, Monroe, Jackson
Topic: Industrial revolution , go west Oregon trail
Feb 17- read: book: 4 chapters: 9,10, 34 Book 5 chapters 18
Books hand out for book report due March 16th - protagonist/ antagonist - power point
Topic: Mexican/ American war, states added, Clay
Feb 24th - read: book: 4 chapters: 32,33, Book 5 chapter 7,8,11
Topic: Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Buchanan, Pierce, Mormon, Gold Rush, know nothings
March 2 nd - read: book: 4 chapters: 26,27,28,29,30,31, 35 Book 6 10
Topic: Slavery, fugitive laws, underground rr, insurrection
March 16th - read: book: 6 chapters: 1 through 9, 15,16 17,21
Book report due
Research paper start - more details to follow- due April 27th
Topic: Civil War, why fight, president, foreign countries
March 23th - read: book: 6 chapters: 12,13,14,18,19,22,23,24 (read assigned half)
Topic: generals, battles
March 30th - read: book: 6 chapters: 20, 25,26, 27,28,29,30,31 (read assigned half)
Topic: Civil war wrap- up, Lincoln, Johnson, black codes
April 13th - read: book: 7 chapters: to be assigned: report to class about your section
take-home test on the Civil War and Reconstruction
Topic: reconstruction, Jim Crow
April 20th - read: book: 5 chapters 19 Book chapter
Topic: Chinese, transcontinental rr, Twain
April 27th - read: book: 5 chapters 21, 22, 23, 25 book chapter
Topic: Ellis island, women’s rights
May 4th read: book: 5 chapters 26
Final test
Topic: Income tax, 1893, greenback
May 11th - last class