History H105/Section V638/Summer I 2003/Professor Ashendel
Office: CA 504N
Office Telephone: 274-8017
Office Hours: Monday and Tuesday 10:15-11:15
Email: aashendel@aol.com (preferred) or aashende@iupui.edu
Required Readings:
Nation of Nations, vol. 1, by Davidson
Salem Possessed by Boyer and Nissenbaum
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party by Young
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 those 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 for the course.
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.
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 two 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 directly from that study guide. There will also be a quiz on Salem Possessed and a quiz on The Shoemaker and the Tea Party. The study questions for those quizzes are part of this syllabus.
Grading:
2 examinations @ 100 points 200
2 quizzes @ 50 points 100
Total points 300
Grades are based on a straight scale: 300-270 = A; 269-240 = B; 239-210 = C; 209 –180 = D; 179 and under = 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 makeup 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.
May 15: Introduction to the Course/Age of Exploration
Read: NON (Nation of Nations) Chapter 1
Begin Salem Possessed
May 19: Early Colonial Settlements and the Development of Slavery
Read: NON, Chapter 2
May 20: Early Colonial Settlements and the Puritans
Read: NON, Chapter 3
May 22: Changes in England and the Colonies
Read: NON, Chapter 4
QUIZ ON Salem Possessed
May 26: NO CLASS—HOLIDAY
May 27: Imperial Policy
Read: NON, Chapter 5
Begin The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
May 29: Making a Rebellion
Read: NON, Chapter 6
June 2: The Constitution
QUIZ on The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
Read: NON, Chapter 7
June 3: The Federalists and the Jeffersonian Republicans
Read: NON, Chapters 8 and 9
June 5: EXAM I
June 9: New Ways to Live and Work
Read: NON, Chapter 10
June 10: Southern Society
Read: NON, Chapter 13
June 12: Native Americans
June 16: Reform
Read: NON, Chapter 12
June 17: Antebellum Politics
Read: NON, Chapter 11
June 19: Antebellum Politics
Read: NON, Chapter 14
June 23: Civil War and Reconstruction
Read: NON, Chapters 15 and 16
June 24: EXAM II
Study Questions for Salem Possessed
Prologue: Describe the basic sequence of events in 1692.
Chapter 1: How did the manner in which Rev. Parris handled the girls add to the hysteria? Was there a geographic pattern to the hysteria?
Chapters 2 and 3: What problems faced Salem Village with regard to village government and religious leaders?
Chapter 4: Compare and contrast Salem Village and Salem Town. What caused the tension between them?
Chapter 5: Compare and contrast the Porters and Putnams.
Chapter 6: What created conflict within the Putnam family?
Chapter 7: Describe Rev. Parris’ past. Do you think his past influenced his actions during the witchcraft outbreak? Why?
Chapter 8: Why were these women singled out as witches?
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. 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?