US History - Fall 2006
2110 - Sections C&FW

Dr. Lisa L. Denmark

Page Last Updated: 11.13.2006 03:25 AM
(UPDATED: SCHEDULE, OUTLINES, & READINGS)

 
   
 

FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

 

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Final Exam Schedule for All Classes (office of Registrar)

 

Exams will be available
11.8 @ 730am for pickup

GRADE CALCULATOR
(NOTE - THIS IS TO GIVE YOU AN ESTIMATE ONLY.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
August 2006
  1 2 3 4
7 8 9 10 11
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Introduction to Class/Syllabus Overview
 

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Extended Office Hours
7-12

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You're the Historian
 

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Extended Office Hours
8-12

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Lecture: Contact, Conflict, Colonization
Brinkley, Ch. 1, 1-11
    Primary Readings
Primary Documents and Material Analysis
  Primary Readings:
1)Christopher Columbus Letter
2)Columbus Journal
3)Bartolome de la Casas
Assignments
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Attendance Verification
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Lecture: English Colonization
Brinkley Ch. 1, 11-14, Ch. 2 all
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Lecture: English Colonization Continued
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Colonials Become Americans Brinkley Ch. 3
Readings:
1)John Smith: General Historie of Virginia(BOLC,Ch. 1, PD 1. Do not complete written assignment.)
2)Bacon's Declaration
 
     

 

Readings
Bacon's Declaration
Ben Franklin: Land of Opportunity
Moraley Tries His Luck in America
Olaudah Equiano, Ch. 2 only

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Origins of Revolution
 Ch. 4

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Revolutionary War
 Brinkley Ch. 5

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Revolutionary War cont'd: Brinkley Ch. 5
Readings
Stamp Act Declaration
Boston Massacre Engraving
Views of the Boston Massacre
  Readings
Association of Virginia
Waldo Diary
 
f Readings
African American Petition for Freedom
Bill Establishing Religious Freedom
 
  CA: “New Political Structures for Celtic Peoples: Devolution and Beyond History Workshop,  Time and Room TBA    
September 2006
4

LABOR DAY - NO CLASS

5 6
The New Nation 1775-1800 Brinkley Ch. 5, 79-85, Ch.6, 87-92
7 8
Federalist Era
 Brinkley, Ch. 6 92-99
    Readings Due:
Shay's Rebellion
Anti-Federalist #36
  Readings Due:
Whiskey Rebellion (Docs 1 and 2 only)
Sedition Act
Virginia Resolution
  CA: “One Race, One People, One Peace” CA: “One Race, One People, One Peace”   History Workshop
2-3pm OR 3-4pm
Room 1233 Forest Drive Bldg
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Early Republic: The Jeffersonian Era
Brinkley, Ch. 7
12 13
Early Republic: The Jeffersonian Era
Brinkley, Ch. 7
14 15
Nationalism and Democracy: The Age of Jackson, Brinkley, Ch. 8, 130-1 and Ch. 9 all
Readings Due:
Gallatin Budget 1803
Jefferson on Slavery
  Readings Due:
War Hawks
Star Spangled Banner
John Bull and Alexandrians
  Readings Due:
Monroe Doctrine
Jefferson on Missouri Crisis
    CA: James Loewen: "Remembering the Past" (7:00 PM only)    
GSU - Sept 16: Mock LSAT (This is not a CA)
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Nationalism and Democracy: The Age of Jackson, Brinkley, Ch. 8, 130-1 and Ch. 9 all
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Test 1

Test 1 Info

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Nationalism and Democracy: The Age of Jackson, cont'd Brinkley, Ch. 9
No readings due. GSU: Jump Start Your Personal Finances (not a CA)     Readings Due:
Daniel Webster on Nullification
Jackson: Indian Remova
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A Changing & Reforming Nation, Brinkley, Ch. 10&12
(Ch. 10 only today)
261 27
A Changing and Reforming Nation, cont'd Brinkley, Ch.12
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Old South, Brinkley, Ch. 11
Readings Due:
Lowell Girls

Crocket on Changes
  Readings Due:
Seneca Falls

Garrison - Liberator

Temperance Tree and
Ocean of Intemperance
  Readings Due:
Fanny Kemble

Impending Crisis

Walker's Appeal
  CA: "Walkout"

GSU: Study Abroad Fair (not a CA)

GSU: "Dare to Declare" (This is not a CA)   CA: Raisin in the Sun (thru Oct 7)
October 2006
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2
Manifest Destiny and Crisis of 1850s
Brinkley, Ch. 13, 194-207
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Crisis of 1850s cont'd
and Civil War
Brinkley, Ch. 13, 207-211 and ch.14, 214-223

Compromise 1850 chart
5 6
Civil War (cont'd)
Brinkley, Ch. 14, 223-233
Readings Due:
Manifest Destiny

Wilmot Proviso Cartoon

 

  Readings Due:
Republican Party Platform
John Brown
SC Secession Convention
AH Stephens Cornerstone Speech
  Readings Due:
Battle Hymn of the Republic
 
  CA: Weill’s ‘Street Scene’, GSU Opera 7:30pm @ Averitt Center $2      
9
Class Canceled
 
10 11
Civil War cont'd
12 13
Reconstruction & the New South, Brinkley, Ch. 15
CA: Islam in Belief and Practice (ongoing through Dec 31)   Readings from Last Friday:
Southern "Volunteers" (cartoon) CSA Soldier at Gettysburg (GIL E-Reserve - access instructions - click here)
Destruction of Georgia (GIL E-Reserve)
  Readings Due:
14th Amendment

Sharecropping Contract
Henry Grady - New South Speech
October 15 CA: Zagreb Saxophone Quartet, Averitt Center for the Arts, 730pm
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Conquering the West Brinkley Ch. 16
17 18
Rise of Modern America, Ch. 17-19
19 20
Rise of Modern America, Ch. 17-19 (cont'd)
Readings Due:
Building a Sod House (GIL E-Reserves) Wyoming Gunfight in Chinatown
Cowboy Vernacular (GIL E-Reserves)(GIL E-Reserve - access instructions - click here
  Readings Due:
Labor v Big Business (cartoon)
Assimilation and
Citizenship (cartoons)
  Readings Due:
Omaha Platform (B. Wilcher@ 9; _____ @ 10)
"The Bloody Chasm" (cartoon)Presentation Sign Up
CA: Islam in Belief and Practice (ongoing through Dec 31) CA:  “Celticness: The Modern Invention of an Identity,”      
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Imperialism - American Style, Ch. 20
24 25
Imperialism cont'd, Ch. 20

 

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Progressivism, Ch. 21-22
Readings Due:
McKinley Defends Expansionism
(M. Rowan @9; G. Parrish @10)Teller and Platt Amendments (_____ @  9; C. Collier @10)Presentation Sign Up
  Readings Due:
Roosevelt Corollary (document) AND cartoon
(N. Doomes @9; K. Wigley@10)
  Readings Due:
Jungle excerpts (T. Dixon @ 9; ______ @ 10)Triangle Shirt Waste Factory Fire (A. Marshall @ 9; ______ @ 10)Roosevelt: Square Deal (available for presentations)Presentation Sign Up
CA: Averitt Lecture Series: People and Places
CA: Islam in Belief and Practice (ongoing through Dec 31)
CA: Averitt Lecture Series: Products (930am)
CA: Averitt Lecture Series: Processes (200pm)
CA:
Discover the Hurdy Gurdy:
     
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CLASS CANCELED
31
 
     
CA: Islam in Belief and Practice (ongoing through Dec 31)        
November 2006
    1
Progressivism cont'd, Ch. 21-22
America and the Wider World: Foreign Policy
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Test 2
Test 2 Information
CA: Islam in Belief and Practice (ongoing through Dec 31)   Readings Due:
TR in Cartoons: Lion Tamer & Elephant & Railroads & Trustbuster

Democratic Platform 1912
A. Jones @ 9;
T. Barnes @ 10

Tampico Incident
(B. Malet @ 9; _______@10)
CA: Meeting with Terrorists: A Professor’s Encounter with Hezbollah of Lebanon
CA: "Night and Fog" 5-7pm - Business Administration, Room 1124
CA: "Life if Beautiful" 300-530 - Business Administration, Room 1124
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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The Great War, Ch. 23
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The Great War, Ch. 23  and The 1920s, Ch. 24
9
 
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The Great Depression & New Deal
Ch. 25
Readings Due:

Doughboy's Experience [GIL E-Reserve] (available for presentations)

14 Points (available for presentations)

Presentation Sign Up

GIL E-Reserve Instructions

  Readings Due:

HL Mencken on Scopes Trial Excerpts from July 9,10,13,14,18 
9am: Erica Giles
10am:________

Presentation Sign Up

  Readings Due:

FDR Inaugural Address [audio/text] (available for presentations)

FDR Fireside Chat #1

Letter: Mrs. Weddington to FDR  [GIL E-Reserve] (available for presentations)

Presentation Sign Up

GIL E-Reserve Instructions

CA: French Catholicism Presentation

CA: Islamic Civilization and Its Influence on Europe, Dr. Egger, Dept of History - GSU Museum @ 330.

CA: Regionalism in Western Europe CA: Bobby Gonzalez - The Untold Story of the Americas" 7:00pm – Education Lecture Hall CA: Sufism and Islam in South Asia, Dr. Khanna - GSU Museum @ 330.  
Nov. 12: CA West African Music Ensemble
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Great Depression/New Deal, Ch. 25-6 AND
WWII, Ch. 27
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Extended Office Hours: 10-1245
 
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WWII cont'd, Ch. 27-28
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17
Class Canceled
Readings Due:

Huey Long - "Share Our Wealth"
9am: Whitney Bradford
10am:Belinda Lucas


Hoover on the New Deal [GIL E-Reserve]
9am: Chris Filbey
10am:Kim Griffin

 

Presentation Sign Up

  Readings Due:

FDR: Four Freedoms & Norman Rockwell's Posters
9am: Janelle Raven
10am:Jenny Side

Letter: Japanese Internment
9am: Jada Musgrove
10am:Karoline Peebles

Atlantic Charter
9am: Ashu Sallien
10am:Amanda Dickson

Presentation Sign Up

 

   
CA: Lost Boys of Sudan
7:00 p.m. - Russell Union Ballroom

CA: Raising Muslim Children in the US, Iman Ahmad - GSU Museum @ 330.

  CA: Islamic Economics, Dr. El-Ansary - GSU Museum @ 330. CA: New Slavery in the Global Economy & Slavery: A Global Investigation CA: "As the Call, So the Echo," Union Theater at 7:00 pm
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WWII, Ch. 27-28
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Thanksgiving Holiday
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Thanksgiving Holiday
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Thanksgiving Holiday
Readings Due:

Einstein's Letter
9am:Kaitlin Coffee
10am: Margaret Dowda

 

       
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Cold War - 1960s, Ch. 29-31


Readings Due:
Kennan X Article
9am: Mary Lintel
10am:Margaret Klussman


Kennedy - Cuban Missile Crisis
9am:Nicole Aslin
10am:Mario Clark

Presentation Sign Up

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Cold War - 1960s contd, Ch. 29-31


Readings Due:
Brown v BOE
9am: Katie Gentry
10am:Jasmine Shepard


Gulf of Tonkin: Johnson's Message to Congress AND Resolution
9am: Adam Kavanaugh
10am:Melissa Chumley

Presentation Sign Up_

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