Fall 2008

I. Introduction
Course Requirements
     Required Texts- Give me Liberty: An American History Vol. 1
                               Constitution of the United States
                              
   Tests
    Reports
         Format for Title Page
    Extra Credit
II. A New World
Readings: Give me Liberty, Chapter 1
                  Ancient America
                 Who was Columbus?
video: Lost Civilizations
II. American Beginnings
Reading: Give meLiberty, Chapter 2
IV. Crisis and Expansion
Reading: Give my Liberty, Chapter 3
V. Slavery Freedom and the Struggle for Empire
Readings: Give me Liberty,Chapter 4
                 How Slavery built the New World
                High Price of Sugar
Video: African Slave Trade
           The Son of Africa
VI. The American Revolution
Readings: Give me Liberty, Chapter 5
                 The Declaration of Independence
                 " An American Patriot Denounces the King 1775"
VII. The Revolution Within
Readings:Give me Liberty, Chapter 6
                 Remember the Ladies
                  About the Constitution  pgs. 1-18
VIII. The Founding of a New Nation
Readings: Give me Liberty, Chapter 7
                 About the Constitution pgs.. 19-20
                  Curse of the California Creeps
                  Line of Sucession of the Presidency
                  Electoral College
                
Test 2
IX. Securing the Republic
Reading: give me Liberty,Chapter 8
Video: The Louisiana Purchase    
X. The Market Revolution
Reading:Give me Liberty: Chapter 9
XI. Democracy in America
Reading: Give me Liberty,Chapter 10
Video: Trail of Tears
XII. The Peculiar Institution
Readings: Give me Liberty, Chapter 11
Video: When the Lion Wrote History
XIII. Age of  Reform
Readings:Give me Liberty, Chapter 12
The Seneca Falls Declaration on Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)
page A-12
XIV. A House Divided
Reading: Give me Liberty,Chapters 13
video: Battle of the Alamo
XV. New Birth of Freedom: the Civil War
Reading: Give me Liberty, Chapter 14
              Emancipation Proclamation

              Gettysburg Address
Videos: Battle of Gettysburg
           American Experience The Massachusetts 54th Regiment
XVI. What is Freedom? Reconstruction
Readings: Give me Liberty, Chapter 15
                Field Order 15: Forty Acres and a mule

                About the Constitution pg. 21
Test 4 (Final)
Glory Report


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