2014-2015 Homework/Reading Schedule
Due Date
Pages
1/6
Book
FINISH ILP
1/8
p. 453-466
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, pt. 1 (Intro – Lee’s Last Lunge
at Gettysburg)
American Pageant
1/12
p. 466-478
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, pt. 2 (The War in the West –
Varying Viewpoints)
American Pageant
1/14
p. 479-490
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, pt. 1 (Intro – Swinging
‘Round the Circle with Johnson)
American Pageant
1/16
p. 490-501
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, pt. 2 (Republican
Principles and Programs – Varying Viewpoints)
American Pageant
1/21
Exam Day
1/23
1/27
1/29
Final Draft – Historical Investigation Due!
p. 504-515
2/2
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, pt. 1 (Intro – Class
Conflict and Ethnic Clashes)
American Pageant
Jim Crow Reading – TBD
TBD
2/4
p. 515-529
Chapter 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, pt. 2 (Garfield and
Arthur – Varying Viewpoints)
American Pageant
2/6
p. 530-543
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age, pt. 1 (Intro – Rockefeller Grows
and American Beauty Rose)
American Pageant
2/10
p. 543-557
Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age, pt. 2 (The Gospel of Wealth –
Varying Viewpoints)
American Pageant
2/17
p. 558-567
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, pt. 1 (Intro – Southern
Europe Uprooted)
American Pageant
2/19
p. 568-578
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, pt. 2 (Reactions to New
Immigration – The March of the Mind)
American Pageant
2/23
p. 578-593
Chapter 25: America Moves to the City, pt. 3 (The Appeal of the
Press – The Business of Amusement)
American Pageant
2/25
p. 594-606
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, pt. 1
(Intro – Beef Bonanzas and the Long Drive)
American Pageant
2/27
p. 606-614
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, pt. 2
(The Farmer’s Frontier – Unhappy Farmers)
American Pageant
3/3
p. 615-625
Chapter 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, pt. 3
(The Farmer’s Take their Stand – Republican Stand-Pattism
Enthroned)
American Pageant
2/12
3/5
Exam Day
3/9
p. 626-635
Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion, pt. 1 (Intro – The Confused
Invasion of Cuba)
American Pageant
3/11
p. 636-646
Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion, pt. 2 (America’s Course (Curse?)
of Empire – Hinging the Open Door in China)
American Pageant
3/17
p. 646-653
Chapter 27: Empire and Expansion, pt. 3 (Imperialism or Bryanism in
1900? – Varying Viewpoints)
American Pageant
3/19
p. 656-667
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, pt. 1 (Intro American Pageant
– TR Corrals the Corporations)
3/24
p. 667-678
Chapter 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, pt. 2
(Caring for the Consumer – The Taft-Roosevelt Rupture)
American Pageant
3/26
p. 679-686
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, pt. 1
(Intro – New Directions in Foreign Policy)
American Pageant
4/6
p. 686-695
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, pt. 2
(Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico – Varying Viewpoints)
American Pageant
3/13
4/8
4/13
Exam Day
4/15
p. 179-184
Chapter 7: The Mexican Explosion, pt 1 (Intro - Patrias Chicas)
Latin America
4/17
p. 184-192
Chapter 7: The Mexican Explosion, pt 2 (Maderista Revolt - Viva
Zapata)
Latin America
4/23
p. 192-198
Chapter 7: The Mexican Explosion, pt 3 (Huerta & the CounterRevolution – The Radicals Lose)
Latin America
4/27
p. 199-205
Chapter 7: The Mexican Explosion, pt 4 (From Destruction to
Construction - A Revolutionary Balance Sheet)
Latin America
4/21
4/29
5/1
Exam Day
5/5
5/7
p. 696-703
Chapter 30: The War to End War, pt. 1 (Intro – Suffering Until
Suffrage)
American Pageant
5/11
p. 704-711
Chapter 30: The War to End War, pt. 2 (Forging a War Economy –
The Fourteen Points Disarm Germany)
American Pageant
5/13
p. 712-719
Chapter 30: The War to End War, pt. 3 (Wilson Steps Down from
Olympus – The Betrayal of Great Expectations)
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5/15
5/20
5/21-5/27
FINALS