HST 202: US History
(1828 – 1898)
Winter
2012
Classroom: Towler 207
Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday 11-11:50 A.M.
Instructor: Patrick
Kane
(503)
338-2473
Office: Towler
312C
Office Hours: Monday-Friday,
3-4 PM
Other hours by appointment
Course Objectives:
1. Provide students with an overview of
social, political, economic and cultural changes in American History from the
1830s to 1898.
2. Enable students to discover patterns of
historical causation and change while studying diverse cultures and bodies
politic.
3. Analyze significant primary historical
writings.
4. Understand the basics of historical
writing as it applies to the various textual course materials.
5. Provide students opportunities for
analysis through class interaction.
Class Assignments and Exams Consist of
the Following:
1)
First
essay on cultural history (see Blackboard – go to Assignments) Due by end of
Week 5
2)
Online
Quizzes (complete quizzes on chapter readings on the Blackboard- Assignments –
due every 2nd or 3rd week)
3)
Midterm
Takehome Essay on Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Due by End of Week 5) 3-4 pages
doublespaced – See Blackboard – go to Assignments)
4)
Final
Exam in class – see official exam schedule or date posted below in syllabus)
5)
Weekly
readings and participation in discussion of Texts in class and on Blackboard
discussion board
Grading Procedures:
Grades for the different credit options will be based on a 1000 point scale:
1)
First
Essay on cultural history (choose either African Americans and Slavery or the
Cherokee removal topic) 150 points (due by end of Week 5)
2)
Online
Quizzes (100 points each – total of 4 quizzes = 400 points total)
3)
Lincoln-Douglass
Debates Essay (due by end of Week 5) 150-points
4)
Final
Exam (150 points)
5)
Participation
in class and mandatory attendance (150 points)
6)
Optional
review essay (3-4 pages minimum: discuss topic with your instructor and earn up
to 100 points each) These allow students
with an interest in various topics to pursue their interest and range of
reading.
REQUIRED TEXTS:
Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty (Norton: Seagull Edition, 2nd edition, 2005,
or 3rd edition 2011.)
Online documents, primary source
readings and course materials are in the Blackboard Academic Suite at http://bb3.clatsopcc.edu/
Academic
Integrity
Each student in this course
is expected to abide by the college’s code of academic integrity. Any work submitted by a student in this
course for academic credit will be the student's own. A student who cheats on
exams or submits work that is borrowed from another individual or publication
without providing a citation may face academic discipline, including lowering
of grades or a failing grade. Students may by prearrangement present joint
projects.
Accommodations
for students with disabilities
Students with documented disabilities
are entitled to reasonable accommodations.
To receive services, contact Services for Students with Disabilities,
338-2474, TDD—325-2902
Non-Discrimination
It is the
policy of Clatsop Community College that there will be no discrimination or
harassment on the grounds of race, color, sex, marital status, religion, national
origin, age, sexual orientation, or disability in any educational programs,
activities, or employment.
COURSE OUTLINE
AND ASSIGNMENTS
Week
1
|
Lecture: From the End of the War of 1812 to the
Missouri Compromise: “The American
System” or the Market Revolution and the Political Economy of Continental
Expansion
Foner Ch. 9 "Market Revolution"
Foner Ch. 10 “Democracy in America, 1815-1840” |
Week 2
|
Foner, Ch. 11,
“The Peculiar Institution”
NO CLASS on
January 16
|
Week
3:
|
Week Three: Reform and Culture in the Age of Expansion
Foner, Ch. 12. “Age of
Reform”
|
Week 4
|
Lecture and Discussion: War with Mexico; Kansas-Nebraska; Dred Scott Decision of
1857; Lincoln-Douglas ‘Debates of 1858
Foner, Ch. 13. A House Divided, 1840–1861
|
Week
5
|
Foner,
Ch. 14 Campaigns of the War
|
Week 6
|
Lecture: End of the War and Reconstruction
Foner, Ch.
15: “What is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
NO CLASS on
Feb. 20
|
Week 7
|
Lecture: The Compromise of 1877; Plains Indians and Resistance; Continental System
Fonder,
Chs. 15 and 16
|
Week 8
|
Documentaries / Films: Stephen Crane’s The Blue Hotel
Robert Hughes, on the
Gilded Age
Foner Chapter 16 America’s
Gilded Age
|
Week
9
|
Labor
Struggles and Industrial Capital;
Foner
Ch. 16 America’s Gilded Age
|
Week
10
|
The
Panic of 1896; Agrarian Populism ;
Spanish-American War and American Empire
Foner
Ch. 17 Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Aborad, 1890-1900
|
Wednesday
March
21
11AM
-12:50 PM
|
FINAL
EXAM
|
