History
M07A - Spring Semester 2007
Krister Swanson
kswanson@vcccd.edu
Helpful Links
The Course Textbook is The American Promise, A Compact History:
Volume I
(3rd Edition) by Roark, Johnson, Cohen et al
Click here for the official book website
Final Review Materials:
Review Game PPT
Text of the Review Game
Midterm Review Materials:
Review Game PPT
Text of the Review Game
Essay Topics (Choose 2 - these need to be in 5 paragraph format):
Please
remember that you
need a scantron and a blue book for the midterm!
Lecture Outlines:
Colonial Regions Develop (1/17/07)
Colonial Expansion: 1700-1770 (1/24/07)
Colonies Clash with the Empire (1/31/07)
Revolutionary War (2/14/07)
Building a Republic (2/21/07)
Washington and Adams (3/14/07)
Jefferson Through Adams (3/21/07)
The Age of Jackson and Manifest Destiny
Dissension Over Slavery Leads to War
Civil War Overview
Reconstruction
Overview
Other class handouts and information will be available here as the
semester
continues
Guidelines for Writing the Research Paper
Good online starting points for primary source documents:
American Memory
from the Libraray of Congress &
National Archives This
is simply the largest collection of American history related documents
on the
web.
Internet
Modern
History Sourcebook Lots of documents - some of the links are
dead but
it's a great listing to get you started thinking of topics.
The Avalon
Project at
Yale Great starting point for any topic relating to
constitutional or
legal history.
Making of America Project
at
Cornell University A great collection of documents related to
American life prior to Reconstruction.
Please remember that a primary source
document
can be an eyewitness account, journal entry, legal document, contract,
letter,
newspaper article, political cartoon, and so forth. The most
helpful
thing to do once you've found your topic is to run searches that are
set up
like these:
"women suffrage cartoon"
"john brown editorial"
"american revolution pamphlet"
"civil war soldier diary"
PowerPoint Presentation Schedule:
|
Date |
Presenter |
Topic |
|
1/31 |
Mayra Zuniga |
Great Awakening |
|
2/14 |
Kristen Webb |
Stamp & Sugar Acts |
|
2/21 |
Laura Sanchez |
Role of Women in the Early Republic |
|
3/7 |
Bryant Clayton |
Trail of Tears |
|
3/14 |
Katie Laakso |
|
|
3/21 |
Mayra Meza |
Abolitionism |
|
3/28 |
Alicia Leon |
Mexican American War |
|
4/25 |
Greg Yazryan |
John Brown |
|
5/2 |
Andrew Seinfeld |
Significant Historical Characters |