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The Lord Cornbury Scandal by Bonomi
The Shoemaker and the Tea
Party by
Young
The
Course
Description and objectives: Despite all
opinion 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 is required and will be taken at
every class meeting. 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
thorough the back of the room (if possible).
Careful listening and note taking are important skills. Therefore, no tape recorders are allowed.
Cheating
and plagiarism: Don’t do it. You will earn a zero on the work in
question. We will discuss plagiarism on
the first day of class.
Assignments: Students will take three examinations. These exams will consist of 6 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 Lord Cornbury Scandal, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, and The Kingdom of Matthias. The study questions for those quizzes are
part of this syllabus.
Grading:
3
examinations @ 100 points 300
3
quizzes @ 50 points 150
Total
points 450
Grades
are based on a straight scale: 450-405 =
A; 404-360 = B; 359-315 = C; 314-270 = D, 269 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 or is
deemed invalid. If a make-up exam or
quiz is approved it must be completed within one week of the original exam or
quiz. 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, and examinations. Please complete the readings before class.
August
20: Introduction to the Class
August
25: Age of Exploration
Read: IA, Chapter 1
August
27: Early Colonial Settlements
Read: IA, Chapter 2
September
1: Labor
Day—No classes
September
3: Colonial Settlements and the
Development of Slavery
September
8: The Puritans
Read: IA, Chapter 3
September
10: Witches and Historians
September
15: Colonial Governments and Colonial
Changes
Read: The
Lord Cornbury Scandal
September
17: Colonial Governments and Colonial
Changes
September
22: Discuss The Lord Cornbury Scandal and QUIZ
September
24: Reason and Religion
Read: IA, Chapter 4 to p. 149
September
29: EXAM
I
October
1: Imperial Policy and Colonists Rights
Read: IA, Chapter 4 149-54 and Chapter 5
October
6: Making a Rebellion
October
8: The Social Significance of War
Read: IA, Chapter 6 to p. 217
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
October
13: Discuss The Shoemaker and the Tea Party and QUIZ
October
15: Constitutional Convention and
Ratification Debates
Read: IA, Chapter 7
October
20: The Federalists
Read: IA, Chapter 8
October
22: The Federalists
October
27: The Jeffersonians
Read: IA, Chapter 9 to p. 309
October
29: EXAM
II
November
3: New Ways to Live and Work
Read: IA, Chapter 6, pp. 217-24; Chapter 9, pp.
309-14; Chapter 10
November
5: New Ways to Live and Work
November
10: Southern Society and Slave Culture
Read: IA, Chapter 12
November
12: Limits of Liberty
November
17: Reform
Read: IA, Chapter 13
The Kingdom of Matthias
November
19: Discuss The Kingdom of Matthias and QUIZ
November
24: The Common Man and Politics
Read: IA, Chapter 11
November
26: Thanksgiving
Holiday—No classes
December
1: Manifest Destiny
Read: IA, Chapter 14
December
3: Civil War
Read: IA, Chapters 15 and 16
December
8: Civil War
FINAL: Wednesday, December 10, 1-3:00 p.m.
Study
Questions for The Lord Cornbury Scandal
Introduction: What are the stories which make up the Lord
Cornbury legend? What are the five
pieces of evidence for this? How did the
Country persuasion and Grub Street join together in this?
Chapter
1: How did Lord Cornbury first become
associated with the portrait at the New York Historical Society? When?
Why is the time significant? What
is the evidence against this portrait as a representation of Lord Cornbury?
Chapter
2: Describe, in general, the rise and
fall of Cornbury’s family fortunes. How
was Cornbury received by Queen Anne and her government on his return to
England? What work was he given?
Chapter
3: What sort of military preparations
did Cornbury make in New York? How did
he promote the Church of England?
Chapter
4: Why did New York’s royal governors
have financial problems? Give two
examples of Cornbury’s financial problems as governor of New York.
Chapter
5: Describe the Whig and Tory
parties. How were political parties
viewed at that time? How did Grub Street
influence politics as this time? How was
this played out in the colonies?
Chapter
6: What were normal instances of
cross-dressing in England? How did this
change beginning in the 1690s? Was
transvestitism as acceptable in the colonies as in England?
Chapter
7: Describe the trials and tribulations
of imperial communications. How does
this explain the letters which reported that Cornbury dressed in women’s
clothes?
Chapters
8 and 9: Briefly, what was the reason
behind the rumors about Cornbury?
Study
Questions for The Shoemaker and the Tea
Party
Part
I
Chapter
1: Who recorded Hewes’ story and
why. Was Hewes’ memory reliable?
Chapters
2 and 3: Describe Hewes’ childhood and
years as an apprentice. What sort of
character traits and abilities did he develop over those years?
Chapter
4: Describe his place in Boston
society. What sort of life did Hewes
lead?
Chapters
5 and 6: Describe Hewes’ participation
in the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. How did that participation affect him?
Chapters
7 and 8: Describe the incident with
Captain Malcolm. What had Hewes learned over the years?
Chapter
9: How did Hewes participate in the
American Revolutionary War?
Chapters
10, 11, and 12: Describe his life after
the war. How and why are we able to read
about Hewes today?
Part
II
Chapters
1, 2, 3, and 4: How and why did the
leaders of post-Revolutionary Boston choose to “forget” the Tea Party and other
pre-Revolutionary events?
Chapters
5, 6, 7, and 8: How was the memory of
the Tea Party revived? Why?
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? What did
his clothing and thoughts on food say about his reactions to changing clothing
and food habits of the people at large?
Give specific examples of each of these.
Chapter
4: Explain the causes behind the
Kingdom’s downfall. Did Matthias kill
Elijah Pierson? How did
contemporaries—people who lived at that time—outside 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?