SSH+101+Themes+in+American+History+to+1865

//**__SSH 101: Themes in American History to 1865__**//

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__**Assignment Schedule**__:

 * **American Beginnings: The British, Dutch & French in North America.**
 * **Reading**: //Give Me Liberty (GML)://
 * Chapter Two (ALL)
 * **Interviews**//: Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"To what degree did ideas of freedom inspire English settlers in North America?"]
 * [|"What were the different ideas of freedom that the English settlers brought with them to America?"]
 * [|"How would you describe seventeenth-century society in terms of freedom?"]
 * **Documents**
 * The Levellers, The Agreement of the People Presented to the Council of the Army (1647)
 * Henry Care: [|English Liberties, or the Freeborn Subject's Inheritance](1680)


 * **Creating Anglo-America, 1660-1750.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Three (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"To what degree did the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688-1689 advance ideas of rights and liberties, and what effect did this have in the American Colonies?"]
 * [|"How broadly did religious freedom and other civil liberties apply in colonial society?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //My History Lab//:
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration (July 30, 1676).docx|Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration (July 30, 1676).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/Declaration against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon (1676).docx|Declaration against the Proceedings of Nathaniel Bacon (1676).docx]]


 * **Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Four (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"How did slavery emerge as a full-fledged institution in the eighteenth-century colonies?"]
 * [|"What do you mean by 'the public sphere' and what is its significance?"]
 * [|"Is there a connection, then, between participation in the public sphere and protection of civil liberties?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * [|"The Trial of John Peter Zenger: An Account" by Doug Linder.]
 * //My History Lab//:
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741).docx|Jonathan Edwards from Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/Albany Plan 1754.docx|Albany Plan 1754.docx]]
 * Benjamin Franklin//[[file:lehman-classes-space/Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind (1751).docx|, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind (1751).docx]]//


 * **The American Revolution, 1763 to 1783:**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Five (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"How did social tensions in America affect the independence movement?"]
 * [|"What was the impact of Thomas Paine on the revolutionary situation and what would you say is his lasting significance?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "Thomas Paine, //Common Sense// (1776)" [[file:lehman-classes-space/Common Sense Thomas Paine0001.pdf|Common Sense Thomas Paine0001.pdf]]
 * //My History Lab://
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/The Declaration of Independence (1776).docx|The Declaration of Independence (1776).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/The Articles of Confederation (1777).docx|The Articles of Confederation (1777).docx]]


 * **The Revolution Within:**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Six (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"How did the Revolution make the principle of equality a part of American freedom and what were the limits to equality at this time?"]
 * [|"How did the Revolution affect religious freedom?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "The Right of 'Free Suffrage' (1776)" [[file:lehman-classes-space/The Right of Free Suffrage0001.pdf|The Right of Free Suffrage0001.pdf]]
 * "Abigail and John Adams on Women and the American Revolution (1776)" [[file:lehman-classes-space/AbigailJohn Adams Women and American Revolut0001.pdf|AbigailJohn Adams Women and American Revolut0001.pdf]]
 * "Liberating Indentured Servants (1784)" [[file:lehman-classes-space/Liberating Indentured Servants0001.pdf|Liberating Indentured Servants0001.pdf]]
 * **Transcript & Video:**
 * Video: [|James Fraser: "The American Revolution as Different Americans Saw It."] (Password: bcchis20 User Name: 317colstonhall)
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/Transcript James Fraser The American Revolution as Different Americans Saw It.pdf|Transcript James Fraser The American Revolution as Different Americans Saw It.pdf]]


 * **Founding A Nation, 1783-1789.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Seven (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"How did the Bill of Rights emerge from the debate over ratification of the Constitution?"]
 * [|"How did race emerge as the sole significant marker between slavery and freedom in this period?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "James Madison, //The Federalist, No. 51// (1787)"
 * "James Winthrop on the Anti-Federalist Argument (1787)"
 * //My History Lab://
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/George Washington The Newburgh Address (1783).docx|George Washington The Newburgh Address (1783).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/Military Reports on Shays's Rebellion (1787).docx|Military Reports on Shays's Rebellion (1787).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights (1789).docx|The United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights (1789).docx]]


 * **Securing the Republic, 1790-1815.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Eight (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"In what ways did public life become democratized throughout the 1790s?"]
 * [|"What was Jefferson's 'Empire of Liberty' and how is it connected to westward expansion?"]
 * [|"In the Peculiar Institution as it developed in the early to mid-nineteenth century, did slaves have any rights recognized by law?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * [|Letter #3] from Letters from an American Farmer, J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur (1782).
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (1794)"
 * "William Manning on the Nature of Free Government (1799)"
 * //My History Lab://
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/President Jefferson’s Confidential Message to Congress (1803).docx|President Jefferson’s Confidential Message to Congress (1803).docx]]
 * **Website:**
 * [|//The Lewis & Clark Journey Log// (National Geographic)]


 * **The Market Revolution.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Nine (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"What do you mean by the Market Revolution and what was its significance?"]
 * [|"What was the impact of the rise of the Cotton Kingdom in this period?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "Orestes Brownson, 'The Laboring Class' (1840)"
 * My History Lab:
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress, the Representation of the Canal Commissioners of the State of New-York (1817).docx|To the Honourable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress, the Representation of the Canal Commissioners of the State of New-York (1817).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/Erie Canal, Extract from the Albany Daily Advertiser (1819).docx|Erie Canal, Extract from the Albany Daily Advertiser (1819).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/A Second Peep at Factory Life, Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845).docx|A Second Peep at Factory Life, Lowell Offering, Vol. V (1845).docx]]
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836).docx|The Harbinger, Female Workers of Lowell (1836).docx]]

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 * **Democracy in America, 1815-1840.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Ten (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"What do you mean by saying that American public life in the Jacksonian period was both expansive and exclusive?"]
 * [|"How did the Democrats and the Whigs differ in the concepts of freedom that they advocated?"]
 * [|"How, then, was Jackson able to enlarge the powers of the presidency?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "John C. Calhoun on the Concurrent Majority (ca. 1845)"
 * "Appeal of the Cherokee Nation (1830)"
 * "Andrew Jackson, Veto of the Bank Bill (1832)"
 * My History Lab:
 * [[file:lehman-classes-space/The Force Bill (1833).docx|The Force Bill (1833).docx]]
 * **An Age of Reform, 1820-1840.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Twelve (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"How did American slavery differ from earlier slave societies in other parts of the world?"]
 * [|"In what ways did abolitionism lend vision to the anti-slavery movement?"]
 * [|"What brought slavery to center stage in American politics in the 1840s and with what effects?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July (1852)"


 * **A House Divided, 1840-1861.**
 * **Reading:** //Give Me Liberty (GML)//, Chapter Thirteen (ALL)
 * **Interviews:** //Questioning Freedom: Interviews with Eric Foner://
 * [|"What were the views of both southerners and northerners on the expansion of slavery into the new territories?"]
 * [|"How did economic development in the period solidify the ties between the Northeast and the Old Northwest?"]
 * [|"How would you characterize Lincoln's view on slavery and race at the time he took office?"]
 * **Documents:**
 * //Voices of Freedom (VOF)://
 * "South Carolina Ordinance of Secession (1860)"