David M. Lauderback, Ph.D.

Professor of History

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US History I

 http://www.austincc.edu/dlauderb

Date

Topic

Reading

Assignment

UNIT 1:  “The Colonial Experience” — 1492-1763


 “The Useable Past”  
 Regarding the Italian Population
(1888)
 The Good Wife's Guide
Housekeeping Monthly (1955)

 Working Stiffs
 Concise History of Black-White Relations (2007)
 The Doll Test (2007)


 “Il Renascimento”
Ch. 1


 Summa Thelogica (1265-1274)
 De Studiis et Litteris (1477)
 Scientific Revolution (1453-1659)
 The Black Death
(1347-1350)
 Auto de Fe (1559)


 “Columbian Exchange”  Ch. 1 Docs  
 Columbus Meets the Arawak (1492-1495)
 Columbian Biological Exchange
 Small Pox in the Americas
 Small Pox
 Map Link (1418/1763)
 Map of the World (1482)
 Map of the Americas (1513/1518)
 Map of Tenochtilan (1524)
 Map of the Americas (1638
)
 

 “Chesapeake Bay” Ch. 2 & Docs  
 Jamestown (1607)
 John Rolfe and Pocahontas (1823
)
 John Rolfe & Tobacco (1609)


 “The City on the Hill” Ch. 3 & Docs
 95 Theses Wittenberg, (1517)
 Institutes of the Christian Religion (1537)
 City on the Hill (1630)
 Anne Hutchinson Examined (1637)
 Great Awakening at Wheathersfield (23 Oct. 1740)
 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Title Page
 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (8 July 1741)



 “The Middle Passage”



 Sicut Dudum (1435)
 Romanus Pontifex (1455) See "We weighing all
  and singular and premises . . ."
 Middle Passage
 Slave Life in the Americas
 Sugar Making
 

 “White Over Black”
Ch. 4


Act of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Sept. 1667)
 Act of the Commonwealth of Virginia (Oct. 1669)
 Act of the Commonwealth of Virginia (1705)
 Africans in America


 “The Middle Ground”
Ch. 4 Docs

   
 Plymouth Rock (1620)
 Tisquantum
 “Reasons for the Plantation of New England” (1628)
 Pequot War (1637)
 Missituc (Mystic) Village (26 May 1637)
 Metacomet (1675)
 Amherst and Pontiac (16 July 1763)


 UNIT 1 EXAM“The Colonial Experience” — 1492-1763  
Concerto Two Violins D Minor
J.S. Bach (1723)

UNIT 2:  “Building a Nation” — 1763-1815


 “Body Politque”
Ch. 5

 Freedom of Speech Cato's #15 (4 Feb. 1720)
 “Cautions against . . . Power” Cato's #33 (17 June 1721
)


 “‘No Taxation Without Representation’”
Ch. 5 Docs


 Stamp Act Resolutions (19 Oct. 1765)
 Boston Massacre (5 Mar. 1770)
 


 “War for Independence”
Ch. 6
 
 Treaty with France (6 Feb. 1778)
 Treaty of Paris (4 Oct. 1783)

 Washington at Yorktown (19 Oct. 1781)
 

 “Contagion of Liberty”
Ch. 6 Docs

 Lee Resolution (2 July 1776)
 Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)
 Articles of Confederation (1777)
 Northwest Ordinance (1787)

 

 “Making the Constitution”
Ch. 7 & Docs


 Virginia Plan (29 May 1787)
 Washington's Draft of Constitution
 Washington to Congress (17 Sept. 1787
)
 Federalist # 10 & 51 (22 Nov. 1787)
 Federalist # 63 (8 Feb. 1788)
 Bill of Rights (9 Sept. 1789)
 Bill of Rights (25 Sept. 1789)
 Population of US (1790)


 “The United States of America”
Ch. 8 & Docs

 Washington's Inaugural Address (16 Apr. 1789)
 Washington's Farewell Address (19 Sept. 1796)
 Judiciary Act (24 Sept. 1789)
 Alien Act (17 June 1798)
 Alien Enemies Act (17 Sept. 1798)
 Sedition Act (14 July 1798)



 UNIT 2 EXAM“Building a Nation” — 1763-1815    

SPRING BREAK MAR. 14-20, 2022 — CAMPUS CLOSED

UNIT 3:  “The Market Revolution” — 1815-1840


 “Wages of Whiteness”
 Ch. 9


 Indegenous Races of the Earth Nott and Glidon (1857)
 Types of Mankind Nott and Gliddon (1857)
 Types of Mankind Nott and Gliddon (1857)
 Man and Gorilla Nott and Gliddon (1857)
 Jim Crow (1828)
 Irish in America (1837)
 


 “Marshall Court”
Ch. 9 Docs

 John Marshall (1832)
 Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)
 McCulloch v. MD, 17 U.S. 316 (1819)
 Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824)
 

 “Jacksonian Persuasion”
 Ch. 10

 Andrew Jackson
 Sequoia (1837)
 Jackson's Message on Indian Removal (6 Dec. 1830)
 Worcester v. GA, 31 U.S. 515 (1832)
 Trail of Tears (1837)
 

 “Politics, Parties, and Portent”
Ch. 10 Docs

 Population of US (1820)
 Missouri Compromise (1820)
 Missouri Compromise (Map 1820)
 James Monroe
 John Quincy Adams
 John C. Calhoun
 Jackson's Bank Veto 10 July 1832
 Henry Clay
 Martin Van Buren
 William Henry Harrison
 Population 1840
 

 “Market, Family, & Morality”
 Ch. 12


 Godey's Lady's book
 Help Me Keep Him Pure
 Not for Ourselves Alone


 “Second Great Awakening”
Ch. 12 Docs

 The Liberator
 Frederick Douglass

 Northern Star
 On the Equality of the Sexes



 UNIT 3 EXAM“The Market Revolution”
— 1815-1840
 


 

 

UNIT 4: “A Nation Divided” — 1840-1877


 “Cotton Economy”

Ch. 11  


 Cotton Gin Patent (1794)
 Cotton Gin
 Cotton Gin Photo
 

 “A Slave Society”
Ch. 11 Docs


 Universal Law of Slavery (1850)
 Butler Island (1839)
 Journal of Residence on a Georgia Plantation (1863)
 Runaway Notice
 Oak Valley Plantation



 “Manifest Destiny”
Ch. 13

 
 McCormick Reaper (1831)
 Sewing Machine (1846)
 Printing Press (1841)
 John O'Sullivan (1845)


 “Free Soil”

Ch. 13 Docs


 Elec. of 1844
 Polk's War Message (1846)
 James K. Polk
 Wilmot Proviso (1846)
 
Elec. of 1848
 Gold! 1849
 The Gold Rush
 Zachary Taylor
 Anti-Free Soil Cartoon (1850)
 Compromise of 1850
 Map Compromise of 1850
(1850)
 Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
 Eric Foner on the Fugitive Slave Act

 

 “Sectional Crisis”

 Ch. 14


 Millard Fillmore
 Elec. of 1852
 Franklin Pierce
 Population of US (1854)
 Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)
 Reynold's Political Map (1856)
 Elec. of 1856
 James Buchanan
 Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)
 Blessings of Slavery (1857)
 Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
 Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
 Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857)
 House Divided Speech 16 June 1858
 Elec. of 1860
 

 “Civil War”
Ch. 14 Docs

 Population of Slaves (1860)
 Ft. Sumpter Surrenders (13 Apr. 1861)
 Emancipation Proclamation (22 Sept. 1862)
 General Order #143 (22 May 1863)
 Battle of Vicksburg (22 Sept. 1862)
 Gettysburg Address (19 Nov. 1863)
 Lincoln's Second Unaugural Adress (4 Mar. 1865)
 Special Field Order 15 (16 Jan. 1865)
 Surrender of Army Northern Virginia (10 Apr. 1865)


 “Reconstruction”

Ch. 15 & Docs


 Population US (1870)
 Reconstruction of US
(1870)
 

 “Birth of a Nation”
 Louisiana Legislature (1868)
 
13th Amendment
 14th Amendment
 15th Amendment
 Elec. of 1876
 
US v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 555 (1875)
 Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883)

 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896) 
 

 UNIT 4 EXAM“A Nation Divided” — 1840-1877  
 
Treaty Ft. Laramie (29 Apr. 1868)
 Yellowstone Park (1 Mar. 1871)
 Dawes Act (8 Feb. 1887)
 

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