History 0610 America to 1877 Lecture Outlines
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1. "Exploration Sheds Light on the Dark Ages"
I. European Background, 1000-1450
    A. Famine
    B. Plague
    C. War

II. Renaissance
    A. Humanism and Civic Humanism
    B. Classics and Inventions
    C. The "New" Science of Mechanism

III. Explore for What?
    A. Where?
    B. How?

IV. The Runners in the Race
    A. Portugal
    B. Spain
    C. France
    D. England

2. "The Jamestown Fiasco:
So Much for the 'Freedom and Liberty' Explanation"

I. English Background
    A. Monarchical Political Culture
    B. English Society and Economy 1500s
    C. Why Leave?

II. Why Come to America?
    A. Goals
    B. Expectations and Realities

III. Saving Virginia
    A. Tobacco and Tobacco Culture
    B. Government

IV. The Chesapeake By 1650

3. "Surely Then New England Was Settled for Religious Liberty?"

I. European Reformation
    A. Catholic Corruption
    B. Reforming the European Church
    C. English Reformation

II. Who Were the Puritans and Why Did They Leave England?
    A. Religious Origins
    B. Social Origins

III. The Great Migration
    A. Pilgrim "Splitters" (Separatists)
    B. Puritan Zionists
    C. Covenant to Commonwealth

IV. The New England Town
    A. Communities and Congregations
    B. Town Meetings
    C. Family Life

V. New England by 1650

4. "There Goes the Neighborhood: It's a 'New World' for the Indians Too!"

I. Paradise Lost? Pre-Contact America
    A.Migration--Religion--Agriculture & Land Usage--Sex & Society--Government--Trade &
            Alliances & Warfare--Economy

II. A Forest Primeval?
    A. Explorer's Reports
    B. A Virgin Land or a "Widowed" One?

III. "Settling" a Course for Disaster?
    A. Migration--Religion & Conquest Ideology--Land Ownership--Sex & Society--Government--
            Economy & Alliances & Warfare--Race and "the Savage Heathen"

IV. Contact, 1600-1700: A Crisis of Expectations
    A. The "Norm"
        1. Virginia and Genocide
        2. New England
    B. The Exceptions and Possibilities
        1. French Jesuits
        2. William Penn

V. A Pattern for the Future?

5. "The Africans' New World: Slavery in Colonial America"

I. The American Paradox

II. European Enslavement of Africans
    A. Economics and the "Savage Heathen"
    B. The Trade
    C. The "Middle Passage"

III. Virginia
    A. Slow to Take Hold, 1617-1680
    B. Why the Swith from White Indentured Servants to Black Slaves
        1. Political, Economic, and Demographic Factors

IV. Slavery and Colonial America, 1700-1775
    A. Slave Communities
    B. Variations of Slavery
        1. West Indies--Carolinas--the Chesapeake--the North
    C. Slave Resistance
    D. Early Anti-Slavery

V. American Slavery=American Freedom?

6. "The Empire Strikes Back: The Road to Revolution?"
I. Colonial America to 1750
    A. Settlements: Companies and Proprietaries
    B. Economic Development
    C. Population
    D. Republican Governance

I. The Great War for Empire (or The French and Indian War)
    A. The American War
    B. British Victory and Debt

II. Imperial Reform~American Resistance
    A. Securing the Empire
        1. Proclamation of 1763
        2. The Quebec Act
    B. Economic Reform
        1. Sugar Act, 1764
        2. Stamp Act and Declaratory Act, 1765, 1766
        3. Townshend Duties, 1767
        4. Boston Massacre, 1770
        5. Tea Act, 1773
        6. Coercive Acts, 1774

III. A Continental Congress, 1774-1775, But Still No Revolution--What Gives?

7. "The War for Independence: A Revolution?"

I. General Confusion Commands the Troops
    A. The Continental Congress and the Road to Independence
    B. Rebels and Loyalists, or Patriots and Tories, and Nuetrals, Oh My!
    C. The "Rage Militare" and Early Success for the "Minutemen"
        1. Lexington and Concord, Saratoga, Bunker Hill
    D. The "Olive Branch" and Independence
    E. Fatigue and Losses
        1. Bunker Hill, New York, Philadelphia
    F. A Continental Army and Baron Von Steuben
    G. The French Alliance and LaFayette
    H. Victory and the Treaty of Paris

II. Revolutionary Effects on...
    A. Society
        1. Ordinary Men
        2. Women
        3. African Americans
        4. Native Americans
    B. Politics and Government
    C. The Economy

III. Framing a Constitutional National Republic: A Counter-Revolution?
    A. Localism vs. Nationalism, Antifederalists vs. Federalists
    B. Madison and the Virginia Plan
    C. Patterson and the New Jersey Plan
    D. The Great Compromise and the Seeds of Disunion
        1. Power, Slavery, Economy

8. "The Revolution Secured, Onto Industrialization:
Republicanism Fades to Individualism and Capitalism

I. Capitalism Overtakes Republicanism
    A. Ideas: From "Common Wealth" to "Rugged Individualism"
    B. Federal Government Leads the Way
    C. State Governments Quick to Follow

II. Public/Private Cooperation Builds a "National Market Economy"
    A. A Spirit of Inventiveness and "Good Ole Yankee Know-How"
    B. Financing Industrialization...Private Capital & Corporate Welfare
    C. Labor Pool Swells to an Ocean
    D. Transportation Revolution
    E. The Factory System and Urban America

III. Where Will This Lead?  Can Republican Political Culture Survive?
 
 

9. "From Individualism to Democracy:
Politics and Society in "Jacksonian America"

I. Forging a Democratic Political Culture
    A. Republicanism No More?
    B. The National Market Economy
    C. Equality of Opportunity...Interest Based Politics

II. Financial Crisis: Panic of 1819 and the Monied Interest

III. Missouri Crisis, 1819-1820 and the Slavery Interest
    A. Louisianna Purchase
    B. Missouri Bill
    C. Compromise of 1820

IV. Political Parties Democratize American Politics
    A. Individual Interests...Politics of the Common Man
    B. Universal White Male Suffrage
    C. Conventions and Platforms
    D. Civil Service Expansion

III.Democratic Politics and Equality of Opportunity, 1824-1840
    A. Henry Clay's American System
    B. The "Corrupt Bargain" Election
    C. Jackson and the Democrats
        1. Nullification, Gag Rules, and Bank Wars
    D. The Whigs and "Ole Tippecanoe"
        1. "Log Cabins and Hard Cider"

IV. Where Doth the Ball Roll?

10. "The Peculiar Institution"

I. Cotton Gin and the the Expansion of Slavery
    A. Slavery as an Economic Institution
    B. Some Numbers

II. Cruelties of an Economic Institution
    A. Slave Codes
    B. Patriarchy

III. Resisting Slavery
    A. Family and Community
    B. Religion
    C. Rebellion
    D. Escape

IV. Slavery and Democratic Political Culture
    A. The Symbol of Opportunity
    B. Reality of Planter Domination

11. "Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Union: The Road to Treason and Secession"

I. An Age of Prosperity and Conspiracies
    A. "Slave Power" vs. "The International Abolitionist Conspiracy"
    B. Crisis in Pennsylvania

II. Crisis in Kansas. 1854-1857
    A. Kansas- Nebraska Act, 1854
        1. a Republican Party?
    B. Slavery in Kansas?

III. Dred Scott, 1857

IV. Lincoln-Douglass Debates, 1858

V. John Brown's Raid, 1859

VI. Election of 1860

VII. Secession--Conspiracies Confirmed?

12. "General Stupidity Commands the Troops: Bullets and Battles"

I. The "USA" vs. "the South"

II. Stage 1: Stalemate, 1861-1862
    A. On to Richmond! Part 1
    B. The Anaconda Plan
    C. On to Richmond! Part 2
    D. On to Richmond? Again? Yes, Part 3

III. Stage 2: Southern Offensive, Fall 1862-Summer 1863
    A. Antietam and Kentucky
    B. On to Richmond! Oh Please, not again? Yes, Again, Part 4
    C. Emancipation Proclamation
        1. Contraband and Black Freedom Fighters
    D. Gettysburg and Vicksburg

IV. Stage 3: US War of Attrition
    A. On To Richmond! What an Original Concept!
    B. On to Atlanta!
    C. On to Ford's Theatre!
    D. On to Appomattox?

V. Human and National Consequences


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