INFORMATION ON HISTORY 117 A & B:
HISTORY 117A: This course surveys the history of the United States from pre-colonial times through Reconstruction (1877).
Professors:
Eligible for English 151B or 163
Course Content:
A. HISTORY FROM THE ORIGINS OF THE REPUBLIC THROUGH
RECONSTRUCTION
B. The Meeting of Cultures
1. America before Columbus
2. Pre-Columbian Civilizations and Cultures
3. Europe Looks Westward
4. Commerce and Nationalism
5. The Spanish Empire
6. Biological and Cultural Exchanges
7. Africa and America
8 The Arrival of the English .
9. Commercial and Religious Incentives
10. The French and Dutch in America
C. Transplantations and
Borderlands
1. The Early Chesapeake
2. The Growth of New England
3. The Restoration Colonies
D. Society and Culture
in Provincial America
1. The Colonial Population
2. Indentured Servitude
3. Birth and Death
4. Medicine in the Colonies
5. Women and Families North and South
6. Slavery in British America
7. Changing Patterns of European Immigration
8. Colonial Economic and Technological Life
9. Patterns of society
10. The Plantation
11. Plantation Slavery
12. The Puritan community
13. Witchcraft
14. The Pattern of Religions
15. The Great Awakening
16. The Enlightenment
17. Education, Science, Law and Politics
E. Struggle for Empire
1. Salutary Neglect
2. Anglo-French Conflicts and the Wars for Empire
3. The New Imperialism
4. TheE British and The Tribes
5. Stirrings of Revolt
6. The Stamp Act Crises
7. The Townshend Program
8. The Boston Massacre
9. The Philosophy of Revolt
10. The Tea Excitement
11. New Sources of Authority
12. Lexington and Concord
F. The American Revolution
1. The Declaration of Independence
2. The War for Independence
3. Loyalists and Minorities
4. The War and Slavery
5. Native Americans and The Revolution
6. Women's Rights and Women's Roles
7. The War Economy
8. The Creation of State Governments
9. The First State Constitutions
10. Toleration and Slavery
11. The Confederation Government
12. The Northwest Territories
13. Indians and the Western Lands
14. Debt, Taxes and Daniel Shays
G. The Constitution and The new Republic
1. The Constitution of 1787
2. Federalists and Anti-Federalists
3. The Federalist Papers
4. Hamilton and Jefferson
5. Native Americans and the New Nation
6. The Decline of the Federalists
7. The "Revolution" of 1800
H. The Jefferson Era
1. The Rise of Cultural Nationalism
2. Education, Medicine and Science
3. The Second Great Awakening
4. Technology in America
5. The Rising Cities
6. Jefferson, the President
7. The Louisiana Purchase
8. Lewis and Clark
9. The Marshall Court
10 The War of 1812 .
I. Varieties of American Nationalism
1. Banking, Currency and Protection
2. Migrations Westward
3. The "Era of Good Feelings"
4. Sectionalism and Nationalism
5. The Missouri Compromise
6. The Latin American Revolution and The Monroe Doctrine
7. The "Corrupt Bargain"
8. The Second President Adams
9. Jackson Triumphant
J. The Impending Crisis
1. Manifest Destiny
2. Americans in Texas
3 Oregon .
4. Life on the Westward Trail
5. The Southwest and California
6. The Mexican-American War
7. Slavery and the Territories
8. The California Gold Rush
9. The Compromise of 1850
10. Slavery, Railroads and the West
11. "Bleeding Kansas"
12. The South Defends Slavery
13. Dred Scott
14. The Emergence of Lincoln
15. California Statehood and Its Constitution
K. The Civil War
1. The Secession Crisis
2. Raising Armies North and South
3. Economics North and South
4. Politics North and South
5. African Americans and the Union Cause
6. Women, Nursing and the War
7. Economic and Social Effects of the War
8. The Commanders
9. The Course of Battle
L. Reconstruction and the New South
1. The Aftermath of War and Emancipation
2. Issues of Reconstruction
3. The Death of Lincoln
4. Johnson and "Restoration"
5. The Black Codes
6. The Fourteenth Amendment
7. Impeachment
8. The African-American Family in Freedom
9. Share Croppers and Tenant Farmers
10. The Grant Administration
11. Southern State "Redeemed"
12. African-American and the New South
13. The Birth of Jim Crow
HISTORY 117B: This course surveys the history of the United States from 1877 (the end of Reconstruction) to the present.
Professors:
Course Content:
A.THE UNITED STATES FROM 1877 TO THE PRESENT
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