History 1301
Course Schedule
Fall 2008

Week of

Module/Unit Topics

Texbook

Due

Aug 25

Module 1/Unit 1
Europe/North America before Columbus

Chapter 1: First Founders

 Unit 1 (LA & DF)

Sept 1

Module 1/Unit 2
The English Colonies: Motives for Settlement

Chapter 2: European Footholds on the Fringes of North America, 1600-1660
Chapter 4: African Enslavement: The Terrible Transformation

 Unit 2 (LA & DF & Assignment Mod 1 Unit 2 Due Sept 8 by midnight)

Sept 8

Module 1/Unit 3
The Developing Culture and Economy of Colonial America

Chapter 3: Controlling the Edges of the Continent, 1660-1715
Chapter 5: An American Babel, 1713-1763

 Unit 3 (LA, DF & Assignment 2 over mod 1 Unit 3 Due September 15 by midnight)

Sept 15

Module 1/Unit 4
Britain's Struggles to Govern

Chapter 6: The Limits of Imperial Control, 1763-1775

 (LA & DF)

Sept 22

Module 1/Unit 5
The Political, diplomatic and military struggle for independence

Chapter 7: Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783

 (LA, DF & Assignment 3 over Mod 1 Unit 5 Due September 29 by 12:00 midnight)  

 

Exam I

Module 1

Exam open
Thursday Sept 25-Sept 30 Deadline Midnight

Sept 29

Module 2/Unit 1
First Government & Building a Nation

Chapter 7: Revolutionaries at War, 1775-1783, section "Legitimate States, a Respectable Military"

Chapter 8: New Beginnings, The 1780s, section "Competing for Control of the Mississippi Valley"

 

(LA & DF)

Oct 6

Module 2/Unit 2
The Second Government of the United States

Chapter 8: New Beginnings, The 1780s

 (LA, DF & Assignment 4 over Mod 1 Unit 2 Due October 13 by 12:00 midnight)

 

 

Oct 13

Module 2/Unit 3
Development of Political Parties

Chapter 9: Revolutionary Legacies, 1789-1803

 (LA, DF)

Oct 20

Module 2/Unit 4
Era of Good Feelings

Chapter 10: Defending and Expanding the New Nation, 1803-1818

 LA, DF & Assignment 5 over mod 1 Unit 4 Due October 27 by 12:00 midnight)

Oct 27

Module 2/Unit 5
Reform and the Rise of the Jacksonians

Chapter 11: Expanding Westward: Society and Politics in the Age of the Common Man 1819-1832

Chapter 12: Peoples in Motion 1832-1848, from beginning to section "The United States Extends its Reach"

(LA & DF)

 

 

Exam II

Module 2

Exam open Thursday October 30-November 4 Deadline Midnight

Nov 3

Module 3/Unit 1
Slavery: "The Peculiar Institution"

Chapter 10: Defending and Expamding the New Nation, section "The Rise of the Cotton Plantation Economy"

Chapter 11: Expanding Westward, section "Slaves and Free People of Color"

(LA, DF & Assignment 6 over Mod 3 Unit 1 Due November 10 by 12:00 midnight)

Nov 10

Module 3/Unit 2
Expansion and Manifest Destiny 1830's-1848

Chapter 12: People in Motion, 1832-1848, section "The United States Extends its Reach"

 (LA, DF & Assignment 7 over Mod 3 Unit 2 due November 17 by 12:00 midnight)

Nov 14

 

Last day for students to withdraw with a W

Nov 17

Module 3/Unit 3
The Impending Crisis 1848-1860

Chapter 13: The Crisis over Slavery 1848-1860

(LA & DF)

Nov 24

Module 3/Unit 4
The Civil War 1861-1865

Chapter 14: "To Fight to Gain a Country": The Civil War 1861-1865

 (LA & DF)

Dec 1

Module 3/Unit 5
Reconstruction Era 1865-1877

Chapter 15: Consoling a Triumphant Union 1865-1877

 (LA, DF & Assignment 8 over Mod 3 Unit 5 Due December 8 by 12:00 midnight)

 

  Exam III

  Module 3

 Exam opens Thursday December 4-Dec 9 Deadline Midnight