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    Hist 1305: United States History to 1877


    Syllabus:
  • TR 1 p.m. - 2:15 p.m.(CRN 11133)

    • SI Sessions for Final Exam Period (405 South) Jillian will hold a session on December 6 and on December 12 (12-2 PM)


    David will hold a session on December 11 (11-12).

    VISTA at UHD:
  • Vista Homepage

    • Supplemental Readings (Required):
  • Charles C. Mann, "America Found and Lost," National Geographic, 211 (May, 2007): 32-55. (requires password)
  • 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 9.20.07):
  • Write a three-page essay outlining the social, economic, and ecological impact of the Jamestown settlement on the Chesapeake region. Papers need to be based on the lectures and assigned readings. See syllabus --under the "Essay" heading-- for more details.


    • 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
  • Worlds Apart
  • English Settlement
  • Labor Choices in the Chesapeake & South
    • Exam Two :
  • Britain's North American Empire
  • A Divided Empire
  • The Revolution
  • First Republic
  • First Party System
  • Rise and Fall of Agrarian Republicanism


    • Exam Three:
  • Jacksonian America
  • Antebellum Slave Societies
  • Westward Expansion and the Sectional Crisis


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