History H105/Section C384/MW 2:30-3:45/LE 100/Fall 2002
Professor Ashendel
Office: CA 243C
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:00 and by appointment
Office Telephone: 274-7463
Email: aashendel@aol.com or aashende@iupui.edu
Required Readings:
Nation of Nations, volume 1, by Davidson
The Puritan Dilemma by Morgan
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party by Young
The Kingdom of Matthias by Johnson and Wilentz
Course Description and Objectives: Despite all opinions to the contrary, history survey courses such as this one are not designed to make undergraduates jump through hoops or torture them with requirements to learn useless information and meaningless dates, all irrelevant to the students' futures. Instead, a survey course is meant to give students a framework for understanding how both the present and future unfold within structures largely defined by the past. Even the fast-paced, technology-driven society we find ourselves in today has roots in historical precedents that are still shaping its development.
This course will focus on the usual themes of politics and economics, but will also show how ordinary people shaped these forces. History is not just a mountain of facts (although you must remember those), but is instead a sequence of interconnected events. Understanding those connections and explaining them through the use of facts is one way to sharpen your analytical skills, improve your ability to communicate with others, and, hopefully, to learn something to apply to your own life.
These objectives are stated in another way at the IUPUI web site under Principles of Undergraduate Learning: www.iupui.edu/~history/principlesundergradlearning.htm. We will also discuss these on the first day of class.
Attendance: Attendance will be taken at every class meeting. Points will not be deducted for absences, but consistent attendance will be used to determine borderline grades. Further, material covered in lecture is not necessarily covered in the required readings. Attendance at every class meeting will result in a better grade.
Classroom procedures: Please arrive on time. If you must arrive late, please enter quietly through the back of the room. Careful listening and note taking are important skills. Therefore, no tape recorders are allowed unless documentation is presented from the office of student services.
Cheating and plagiarism: Don't do it. You will earn a zero on the work in question. For further information consult the Campus Bulletin, 2000-2002: IUPUI, p. 36.
Assignments: Students will take three examinations. These exams will consist of 5 identifications and an essay question. A study guide will be distributed in class one week prior to each exam. The study guide will include 13 possible identifications and at least 3 possible essays. The actual exam will be taken from that study guide. There will also be a quiz on the first reading, The Puritan Dilemma and on the last reading, The Kingdom of Matthias. The study questions for the quizzes are part of this syllabus. Students will also complete a 3-5 page paper on The Shoemaker and the Tea Party.
Grading:
1 examination @ 75 points 75
1 quiz @ 25 points 25
2 examinations @ 100 points 200
1 paper @ 50 points 50
1 quiz @ 50 points 50
Total 400 points
Grades are based on a straight scale: 400-360 points = A; 359-320 = B; 319-280 = C; 279-240 = D; 239 and lower = F. A zero has a greater negative impact on your final grade than at least some attempt to complete an assignment. Make-up examinations and quizzes are strongly discouraged. No make-up exam or quiz will be given without documentation proving an extreme emergency. Documentation includes doctors' forms, funeral notices, accident reports, and similar verifiable papers. The instructor reserves the right to refuse to grant a make-up exam or quiz if the documentation is not presented. If a make-up exam or quiz is given it must be completed within one week of the original exam or quiz. Papers must be turned in at class on the day they are due unless there is a verifiable emergency. Incompletes are strongly discouraged and rarely given. It is not fair to the rest of the class to request extra time to complete the work.
Schedule of lecture topics, readings, quizzes, examinations, and papers. Please complete the readings before class.
August 21: Introduction to the Class
August 26: Age of Exploration
Read: NON (Nation of Nations): Chapter 1
August 28: Early Colonial Settlements
Read: NON, Chapter 2
September 2: LABOR DAY--NO CLASS
September 4: Colonial Settlements and the Development of Slavery
September 9: The Puritans
Read: NON, Chapter 3 and begin The Puritan Dilemma
September 11: Witches and Historians
September 16: Discuss The Puritan Dilemma and QUIZ
September 18: Colonial Governments and Colonial Changes
Read: NON, Chapter 4
September 23: Reason and Religion
September 25: EXAM I
September 30: Imperial Policy and Colonists Rights
Read: NON, Chapter 5 and begin The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
October 2: Making a Rebellion
Read: NON, Chapter 6, 170-76, 192-95
October 7: Social Significance of War
October 9: Discuss The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
October 14: Constitutional Convention and Ratification Debates
Read: NON, Chapter 7
PAPER DUE ON SHOEMAKER AND THE TEA PARTY
October 16: The Federalists
Read: NON, Chapter 8
October 21: The Federalists
October 23: The Jeffersonians
Read: NON, Chapter 9
October 28: EXAM II
October 30: New Ways to Live and Work
Read: NON, Chapter 10
November 4: New Ways to Live and Work
November 6: Southern Society and Slave Culture
Read: NON, Chapter 13
Begin to read Kingdom of Matthias
November 11: Limits of Liberty
Read: NON, Chapter 12
November 13: Reform
November 18: Discuss Kingdom of Matthias and QUIZ
November 20: The Common Man and Politics
Read: NON, Chapter 11
November 25: Manifest Destiny
Read: NON, Chapter 14
November 27: THANKSGIVING--NO CLASS
December 2: Civil War
Read: NON, Chapters 15 and 16
December 4: Civil War
December 9: Reconstruction and Review
Study Questions for The Puritan Dilemma
Chapter 1: Describe Winthrop's early years. How did Puritanism affect what he did?
Chapter 2: What were the "evil and declining times" for Winthrop and England?
Chapter 3: What were the reasons for moving to New England? What was the biggest reason to stay in England?
Chapter 4: How was this group different in governance from other groups which settled in North American?
Chapter 5: What happened in the first year of settlement?
Chapter 6: What was "separatism" and where did it come from? How did Winthrop deal with separatism?
Chapter 7: Describe the government the Puritans created. Who could vote? For what? Was this a theocracy?
Chapter 8: Why did Winthrop lose his office?
Chapter 9: What did Roger Williams believe? Did the Massachusetts colony benefit from his expulsion? Why or why not?
Chapter 10: What were the problems the colony had with Anne Hutchinson?
Chapter 11: The chapter title refers to the "New England Way" of establishing laws in Massachusetts. What did they try to do and did they succeed?
Chapter 12: What happened to Winthrop's finances? How did the calling of Parliament in 1640 and the end of the Great Migration affect the Massachusetts economy? What new question did the people in Massachusetts have to consider?
Chapter 13: How did the New Englanders display their self-righteousness? What did Winthrop think of that? How did it affect Virginia and Rhode Island? How did they deal with problems among the French in New France? ************************************************************************
Paper Assignment for The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
This book has two important points to make. The first is how an ordinary citizen participated in the American Revolutionary War. The second is why we choose to remember the Boston Tea Party as a significant event.
For this paper answer the following questions in the form of a well-organized essay which contains a strong thesis statement and an argument that is supported by evidence from the book. The paper must be 3-5 pages in length, type-written, double spaced, one-inch margins around the page and in 10 or 12 point font. We will cover the basics of thesis statements and essay writing in class.
1. What events changed the way George Robert Twelves Hewes viewed himself and his world? How? Why?
2. How was the Boston Tea Party originally remembered? Why do we remember the Boston Tea Party today? Has that distorted the reality of the American Revolution? Why or why not?
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Study Questions for The Kingdom of Matthias
Introduction: Compare the similarities between Joseph Smith and Matthias.
Chapter 1: Describe Elijah Pierson's early life and work. Describe Pierson's marriage. How did he change after meeting Frances Folger? How did his behavior reflect or not reflect middle-class norms for behavior? What happened to him when his wife died?
Chapter 2: Describe Robert Matthews' childhood and early life and compare it to Elijah Pierson. How did the national economy affect Matthews? How did Matthews become Matthias?
Chapter 3: What did Matthias think of women? How did his economic well-being change when he became Matthias? Who lived at the Mount Zion house? What did his clothing and thoughts on food say about his reactions to changing clothing and food habits of the people at large?
Chapter 4: Explain the causes behind the Kingdom's downfall. Did Matthias kill Elijah Pierson? How did contemporaries--people who lived at the time--outside of the cult view Matthias? Why did they think Matthias formed the cult and why did people join it? What led to Matthias' arrest and jailing?
Epilogue: What happened after Matthias went to jail?