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  • Hist 1305: United States History to 1877


    Final:
  • Monday, May 5 at 10:00 (be on time)

  • Syllabus:
  • MW 10 p.m. - 11:15 p.m.(CRN 20975)

  • SI Final Exam Review Sessions(405 South)
    Jillian: Monday, May 5th from 2:30-5:00pm in South 405

    David: Wednesday, April 30th at 9:00AM in South 405

    Ken: Thursday, May 1 at 1 p.m. in South 405

    Chris: TBA

    SI Sessions (405 South)
    9:00a.m.-10:00a.m Monday - Thursday
    2:30p.m.-3:30p.m. Tuesday

    VISTA at UHD:
  • Vista Homepage

  • Supplemental Readings (Required):
  • Charles C. Mann, "America Found and Lost," National Geographic, 211 (May, 2007): 32-55. (text version, requires university login only)


  • Cherokee Removal Documents


  • Paper (due 2.11.2008 at midnight):
  • Students are required to write a three-page paper (no title pages) outlining the social, economic, and ecological impact of the Jamestown settlement on the Chesapeake region (and the native people). Papers must be based on lectures and assigned readings (no outside sources). This paper must be typed in Times New Roman font at 12 point and must be double-spaced with 1.25 margins. Punctuation, style, footnotes, etc., will be according to Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. The papers will be submitted electronically in a MS Word format via Vista/Blackboard by midnight on February 11. A letter grade will be deducted for each day the paper is late. No papers will be accepted after midnight on February 15.


  • Likely Exam Essay Questions:
  • Exam Two
  • Exam Three

  • Identification Lists (Note: These links are designed to help students to focus on some of the core themes discussed in class. Examinations, however, will demand more than simple identification of the items listed.):

    Exam One :
  • Civil War
  • Reconstruction
  • Expansion of Europe and the Columbian Exchange
  • The Creation of an English American "Empire"
  • Exam Two :
  • Mercantilism and Slavery
  • Britain's North American Empire
  • A Divided Empire
  • The Revolution
  • First Republic


  • Exam Three:
  • First Party System
  • Rise of Agrarian Republicanism
  • Fall of Agrarian Republicanism
  • Jacksonian America
  • Sectional Conflict


  • Final Exam will be comprehensive. See above identification lists: