LECTURE OUTLINES for U.S. History to 1877 (075)

Fall 2004

 

**Please note that as of 12/02, Lecture Outlines 1-17 are non-functional until they are retrieved from a server that is currently down.

 

**Important dates:

-Mon. Nov. 1st or Tues. Nov. 2nd (depending on section)—Exam 2

-Fri. Nov. 19th 3pm—Draft of Semester Paper due to me (OPTIONAL)

-Fri. Dec. 10th 5pm—Semester Paper due—no late papers accepted

 

Lecture Outlines by week

Useful Web Links For Further Reading or Paper Research

 

 

Lecture 1 (08/23)

 

Lecture 2

 

Lecture 3

**Chapt. 1 Maps: http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/ap/chapter1/mapsch1.html

Maps of Early America http://history.acusd.edu/gen/maps/list-1600s.html

Colonial America Maps http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/151maps.html

Native Americans-Internet Resources—a good gateway (JMU) http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/native.htm

 

Africans in America (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr1.html 

“Roots”—Origins of American Slavery (History Channel)

http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/roots/where.html

 

 

Lecture 4 (08/30)

 

Lecture 5

 

**Chapt. 2 Maps: http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/ap/chapter2/mapsch2.html

Virtual Jamestown http://www.iath.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/

**Chapt. 3 Maps: http://www.wadsworth.com/history_d/special_features/ext/ap/chapter3/mapsch3.html

 

Colonial and American Literature to 1700, including poet Anne Bradstreet (JMU) http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/amlitcol.htm#I

Colonial Music Institute http://www.colonialmusic.org/Resource/Resources.htm

No Class Mon. 09/06

Labor Day

 

 

Lecture 6

 

Lecture 7

 

Lecture 8

 

Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676, Timeline & other info. (CU-Denver) http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~rpekarek/baconchron.html

 

Puritan writings and documents

 

Salem Witch Trials (2 good sites):

(1-Univ. of MO, KC) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SALEM.HTM 

(2-Univ. of VA) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/

 

An ex. of Religious Persecution, from 1685 engraging

 

Pilgrims Praying ; Perception of Puritanism

 

Puritan Migration

 

Col. New Hampshire Burial Ground, 1671

 

Pequot War

 

Mary Rowlandson Captivity Narrative, 1682

 

William Penn, aged 22 yrs., 1666

 

Penn’s treaty with Indians

 

1688 PA Quaker Protest Against Slavery (Quakers)

 

Demographics Chart

 

Quaker Writings

 

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress) http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/overview.html

This Far By Faith: the Great Awakening (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_1/p_4.html

Lecture 9 (09/13)

 

Lecture 10

 

Lecture 11

 

Maps of the French & Indian War http://www.philaprintshop.com/frchind.html

Scalping during the French & Indian War http://earlyamerica.com/review/1998/scalping.html

 

18th cen. life & the Revolutionary period from the Maryland Gazette (MD Archives) click in “Documents,” http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1259/121/5912/html/0000.html 

 

Note: to allow enough time to prepare for exam 1, the lecture of some reading assigned for this week was begun the prev. week.

 

Lecture 12

Revolutionary War Timeline (PBS)

Liberty! - The American Revolution (PBS)  http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/chronicle.html

People & Spy Letters of the American Rev. (Clements Library) http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/stories.html

Colonial & Early America Links http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/resources_libertylinks.html

4 Centuries of British-American Relations (Library of Congress) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/brit-2.html

 

Benjamin Franklin (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/ a good site for his writings and contributions

Benjamin Franklin (Franklin Inst. Science Museum) http://sln.fi.edu/franklin/rotten.html (click on 1706-1790 link to view timeline of his life)

EXAM 1

 

Lecture 13 (09/27)

 

Lecture 14

 

Lecture 15

 

Land Policy Notes

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (Lib. of Congress) http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists (Holycross) http://www.holycross.edu/departments/political_science/dschaefe/apt/Afedout.htm  

Shays Rebellion, 1787 & the Whiskey Rebellion, 1794 (UMass) http://www.umass.edu/history/institute_dir/rebel/srebell.html

The Papers of George Washington (U VA) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/

 

Charters of Freedom: Decl. of Ind., Constitution, Bill of Rights (Nat’l Archives) http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters.html

 

Lecture 16 (10/04)

 

 

 

Lecture 17

 

Washington’s Proclamation Concerning the Whiskey Rebellion, 1794, (Early America Rev.) http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/whiskey/index.html (note: a link at the bottom is to a scanned image of original)

The Whiskey Insurrection from Washington’s Diaries (Papers of GW, at U VA) http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/whiskey/

George Washington’s Farewell Address (1797)

 

Hamilton’s Biography (Nat’l Archives but added to Madison Archives site at JMU) http://www.jmu.edu/madison/center/main_pages/madison_archives/era/parties/power/hamilton.htm

 

Textile Factories Come to the U.S. (Clemson) http://people.clemson.edu/~pammack/lec122/amir.htm

Eli Whitney & the Cotton Gin, incl. image of patent at bottom (Nat’l Archives) http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/lessons/cotton_gin_patent/cotton_gin_patent.html

 

Lecture 18  (10/11)

 

Lecture 18-B

The 2nd Great Awakening (PBS) a really good site http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_2/p_3.html

Prophetic Belief in the U.S. & the 2nd Great Awakening (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/apocalypse/explanation/amprophesy.html

 

Free Blacks and the Yellow Fever Epidemic, Phil., 1793 (PBS), note links at bottom pertaining to Richard Allen and others in the free black community http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1590.html

 

(WHA)

Lecture 19

Thomas Jefferson, Digital Archives (UVA) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/

Lewis & Clark: National Geographic (incl. interactive activity) http://www.nationalgeographic.com/lewisandclark/

 

Lecture 20

 

Dueling in America, reference to Hamilton-Burr duel (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/duel/sfeature/dueling.html

2 Letters from Hamilton to his wife prior to his duel (U VA) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/ham/LTRELIZA.HTML

 

Tecumseh’s speech to Gov. William H. Harrison at Vincennes (1810) http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/alh/docs/tecumseh.html

War of 1812 primary documents (Cen. MI Univ.) http://clarke.cmich.edu/nativeamericans/mphc/warof1812.htm

**no class Mon. (18th) or Tues. (19th)—Fall Break!

 

 

Lecture 21

 

Binder, Chapt. 8—moved to next week for both classes

Robert Fulton and the Steam Boat (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/fulton_hi.html

Historical Images of the Erie Canal http://www.eriecanal.org/images1.html

 

Missouri Compromise, 1820 (Gov.) http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=22

Missouri Compromise Docs. (SMSU) http://history.smsu.edu/FTMiller/LocalHistory/Docs/MOCompDocs.htm

 

Lecture 22 (10/25)

 

Trail of Tears (Cherokee Nation) http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/HistoryPage.asp?ID=2 

Andrew Jackson (U VA) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/jackson/jackson.html

 

Lecture 23

 

Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village (Shaker Soc. Maine) http://www.shaker.lib.me.us/

Rochester Ladies Antislavery Society (Univ. of Mich) http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/QR/Rochester.html

 

Born in Slavery (Library of Congress)  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

Slaves & the Courts (Library of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sthtml/sthome.html

Exam 2

 

Lecture 24

Black Southerners in the Old South (Duke Univ.) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/slavery/oldsouth.html

The Underground Railroad (History Channel) http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/undergroundrr/slavery.html

Documenting the American South (UNC-Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html

 

Lecture 25 (11/08)

 

RE: Supplemental Readings by Section meeting date

     

-Wed.—Binder, Chapt. 10, “Moving West”

     

-Thurs--Hollitz, Chapt. 12, “The South & the Slavery Debate”

 

-Fri.—Hollitz, Chapt. 12, “The South & the Slavery Debate”

 

Lecture 26

The Mexican War (PBS)  http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/

 

U.S. Statutes Concerning Slavery (Yale) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/slavery/slmenu.htm

 

Abolition, Antislavery, Fugitive Slave Law (Lib. of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart3b.html

 

Frederick Douglass Papers (Lib. of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/doughtml/doughome.html

 

American Transcendentalism (VCU) http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/

 

19th cen. Irish-Catholic Immigration to the U.S. (Lib. of Congress) http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/irish2.html

 

Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture (UVA) http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/sitemap.html

 

 

 

Lecture 27 (11/15)

 

Lecture 28

 

Lecture 29 (11/29)

 

Lecture 30

 

Lecture 31

A. Lincoln’s “I am not a Know-Nothing,” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p2.cfm?doc=126

 

 

American Civil War Homepage (very impressive!) (Univ. of Tenn.) http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/warweb.html