Matthew Hacholski | Instructor of History
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Instructor: Matthew Hacholski
History 170 Section: 13320
Fall Semester, 2018
Course Schedule:Tu
6:30PM to 9:40PM
Location: CC-Building 123
E-Mail:
Office Hours: MTuWTh
6:00PM to 6:30PM
Office Location: CC -238M
Week 1: The World before Columbus: 1492 - 1650
A) Class Introduction
B) Indigenous America before Columbus
C) Mesoamerican Civilizations
Map Assignment
US Map Political
US Map Physical
World Map Political
Week 2: When Worlds Collide: 1492 - 1650
A) The Spanish Conquest of the Americas
B) The Columbian Exchange
C) Early European Colonization in North America
D) Map Assignment Due
Reading: Making America pgs. 3 - 10
HW Article
Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy
paragraph response following class. (For three sentences
summarize and for two give opinion.)
Ice Age Amerindians:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2015/01/first-
americans/hodges-text
The Chumash:
http://www.santaynezchumash.org/history.html
The Aztecs:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/MES-05-SciAm-.pdf
Early Chocolate:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeology-
chocolate-180954243/
Christopher Columbus & the Caribbean:
http://www.history.com/topics/exploration/columbus-
controversy
(Optional)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/what-
became-of-the-taino-73824867/
On the Trail of Hernan Cortez:
http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-
specials/21636686-journey-past-most-mexicans-would-
rather-forget-trail-hern-n
Week 3: The Colonial World Flourishes: 1650 - 1754
A) The Atlantic World
B) European competition in the Americas
C) Colonial Society & Latin America
Reading: Making America pgs. 23 - 32
HW Article
Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy
paragraph response following class. (For three sentences
summarize and for two give opinion.)
Failed Colonies:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/becomingamer/gr
owth/text6/failedcolonies.pdf
The (Re)Discovery of Jamestown Fort:
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/13/us/jamestown-fort-
birthplace-of-america-in-1607-is-found.html
Explore the Virtual Museum of New France or Read Book
Review:
http://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-
france/
&http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487035094
04575300743173582892
The Dutch & New Amsterdam:
http://blog.nyhistory.org/new-amsterdam-become-new-
york-peter-stuyvesant-gets-350-years/
Week 4: The Birth of the British Empire: 1650 - 1754
A) The English in Virginia and Massachusetts
B) Slavery and the making of the British Empire
C) Population growth and immigration
D) Movie Review Due
Reading: Making America pgs. 43 - 49, 53 - 57
HW Article
Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy
paragraph response following class. (For three sentences
summarize and for two give opinion.)
Life in the Southern Colonies:
http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/01/life-in-the-southern-
colonies-part-2-of-3/
The Glorious Revolution:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gl
orious_revolution_01.shtml
The Atlantic Slave Trade (A) Slave Ship & (B) Arrival in
Americas:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/world/africa/tortuous-
history-traced-in-sunken-slave-ship-found-off-south-
africa.html?_r=0
&
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/slavery/americas
/olaudah_arrival.aspx
The Gullah of South Carolina:
http://glc.yale.edu/gullah-rice-slavery-and-sierra-leone-
american-connection
Week 5: The Peak of British America: 1754 - 1774
A) New England, Middle Colonies, Southern Colonies
B) Colonial Development: Mercantilism vs. Free Trade
C) The French and Indian War
Reading: Making America pgs. 71 - 80, 82 - 86
(Study Guide) Historical Identification Assignment
HW Article
Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy
paragraph response following class. (For three sentences
summarize and for two give opinion.)
The French and Indian War
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiatheme4c.html#t
The Stamp Act: The Debate
http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/crisis/t
ext3/stampactresponse1765.pdf
The Rights of the Colonists: Samuel Adams
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-
documents/primary-source-documents/the-rights-of-the-
colonists/
The Rights of Englishmen: In the Law
http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl
e=5001&context=penn_law_review
The Magna Carta: The Spirit of Liberty in the Middle Ages?
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/magna-carta-muse-and-
mentor/rights-of-englishmen-in-british-america.html
Week 6: Crisis in the American Colonies: 1754 - 1774
A) Colonial Governance and Imperial Reform
B) Colonial Grievances & Resistance
C) The Boston Tea Party
Reading: Making America pgs. 100 - 112
HW Article
Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy
paragraph response following class. (For three sentences
summarize and for two give opinion.)
The French and Indian War
http://international.loc.gov/intldl/fiahtml/fiatheme4c.html#t
The Stamp Act: The Debate
http://americainclass.org/sources/makingrevolution/crisis/t
ext3/stampactresponse1765.pdf
The Rights of the Colonists: Samuel Adams
http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/founding-
documents/primary-source-documents/the-rights-of-the-
colonists/
The Rights of Englishmen: In the Law
http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl
e=5001&context=penn_law_review
The Magna Carta: The Spirit of Liberty in the Middle Ages?
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/magna-carta-muse-and-
mentor/rights-of-englishmen-in-british-america.html
Week 7: The American Revolution: 1774 - 1783
A) The Shot Heard Round the World
B) Imperial Escalation and Colonial Confrontation
C) The Conflict Goes Global & Independence
Reading: Making America pgs. 117 - 124, 138 - 143
Causes of the American Revolution:
https://www.sutori.com/story/the-causes-of-the-american-
revolution-beaa
The American Revolution; How Revolutionary?
http://www.aei.org/publication/how-revolutionary-was-the-
american-revolution/
Did the British Win the American Revolutionary War?
http://allthingsliberty.com/2015/07/how-the-british-won-
the-american-revolutionary-war/
Myths of the American Revolution:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myths-of-the-
american-revolution-10941835
Americans and Revolutions:
http://www.newsweek.com/niall-ferguson-americans-and-
revolutions-68631
(Study Guide) Historical Identification Assignment
Week 8: Mid-Term Exam - Bring a Scantron (886-E),
and a No.2 Pencil
A) Review
B) Mid-Term Exam
C) Historical Identification Assignment Due
Week 9: The Young American Republic: 1783 -1815
A) The Articles of Confederation & Constitution
B)The Federalist Era
C) Federalists vs. Republicans
Reading: Making America pgs. 164 - 175
HW Article
Select and Read One Article and turn in a hard copy
paragraph response following class. (For three
sentences summarize and for two give opinion.)
Problems under the Articles of Confederation:
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/10-reasons-why-
americas-first-constitution-failed
A More Prefect Union: the Creation of the US
Constitution: https://www.archives.gov/founding-
docs/more-perfect-union
Separation of Powers & Bill of Rights:
http://www.history.com/topics/three-branches-of-
government & http://www.history.com/topics/bill-of-
rights
Ratification of the US Constitution Introduction &
Debate:
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/intro/
& http://teachingamericanhistory.org/fed-
antifed/issues-debated/
Hamilton vs. Jefferson:
http://time.com/4210440/jefferson-hamilton-excerpt/
Week 10: The Young American Republic: 1783 -1815
A) Jeffersonian Democracy
B) Jefferson and the West
C) The War of 1812
D) Image Analysis Due
Reading: Making America pgs. 188 - 198
Jeffersonian Democracy:
https://newrepublic.com/article/63628/jefferson-and-
the-new-freedom
&http://sageamericanhistory.net/jeffersonian/topics/Jef
fersonianDem.htm
Alien and Sedition Acts:
http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/winter07/ali
en.cfm & http://www.history.com/topics/alien-and-
sedition-acts
Women’s Changing Roles as Citizens of a New Republic:
http://npg.si.edu/exhibit/murray/#1
(The historian below - Carol Berkin - is the primary
author of your Textbook)
After the War, Voting and Property Rights
& A New Radical Idea: Republican Motherhood
&http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/
ReferenceDetailsWindow
Marbury vs. Madison: Supreme Court and Judicial
Review Marbury v. Madison
The Louisiana Purchase & Lewis and Clark (Virtual
Museum Exhibition)
The Making of a Nation: Louisiana Purchase
& https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/louisiana-
purchase
&http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/virtualtour/
(Adobe Flash & Internet Explorer required to enter
Virtual Tour)
&Slaves Won The War - Haitian Revolution
Week 11: America Goes West: Manifest Destiny &
Expansion 1815 - 1848
A)Jacksonian Democracy
B) The Transportation and Political Revolution
C) Cotton and Solidification of slavery
Reading: Making America pgs. 246 - 258
Jacksonian Democracy
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-us-
history/period-4/apush-age-of-jackson/v/jacksonian-
democracy-part-1
& http://americanexperience.si.edu/wp-
content/uploads/2014/07/Federalism-to-Jacksonian-
Democracy.pdf
American Literature
Disney edition of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy
Hallow (Movie)
https://archive.org/details/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow_2
01602#
& The Story of Rip Van Wrinkle by Washington Irving
(Recording)
http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/171/american-short-
fiction/3461/rip-van-winkle/
Religion in America
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel07.html
American Art
Online Albany Institute Exhibition
http://www.albanyinstitute.org/introduction.html
Week 12: America Goes West: Manifest Destiny &
Expansion 1815 - 1848
A) Compromise & the Republics of Texas and
sadasdsdCalifornia
B) The Mexican - American War
C) Primary Source Analysis Assignment Due
Reading: Making America pgs. 311 - 324
Texas Revolution:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Texas-Revolution
California Gold Rush:
http://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/gold-rush
Mexican American War 1846 - 1848: Two views
http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/war/
&http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_
an_ideal_or_a_justification.html
&http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/prelude/md_
a_mexican_viewpoint.html
Oregon Trail:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/follow-relics-
oregon-trail-180960589/
Missouri Compromise:
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/founding-
father-missouri-compromise-1819
Week 13: The Impending Crisis: Social and Sectional
Division 1848 -1861
A) Westward Settlement and Immigration
B) The Compromise of 1850
C) Society & Antebellum America
D) Sectional Polarization & the election of 1860
Reading: Making America pgs. 326 -335
Southern Culture:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ushistory1os2xmast
er/chapter/wealth-and-culture-in-the-south/
Slavery the Southern Plantation:
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1857stirling.asp
& http://www.ushistory.org/us/27a.asp
& http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp
& http://www.ushistory.org/us/27c.asp
Personal Testimonies of Slavery from Freedmen and
Slave Songs (Audio)
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/2718 &
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/title.
html
&http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfst
itle.html
Harriet Tubman:
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhi
bit/GwIC_10DOod5KA
Abolitionists: http://www.history.com/topics/black-
history/abolitionist-movement
& https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american-
odyssey/abolition.html
John Brown:
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/abolitionists-
john-brown
Immigration: http://www.ushistory.org/us/25f.asp
& https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-
ushistory/chapter/immigration/
Week 14: The American Civil War 1861 - 1865
A) Goals, strategies, resources of the Union &
sdfsfdsdfConfederacy
B) The Battles, Generals, and Men
C) The Emancipation Proclamation
Week 15: The Reconstruction Era 1865 - 1877
A) A New Nation Heals
B) Radical Reconstruction and Resistance
C) The 1877 Election and the end of
fsdfsdfdsReconstruction
Week 16: Final Exam Thursday 12/4 @ 6:30PM and
Research Essay Due @ 9:40PM
Bring a Scantron (886-E), and a No.2 Pencil
A) Thursday Final Exam
B) Research Essay Due
Colonial
US History