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Office
Hours: MW 1-2 and by appointment
Office
Telephone: 278-9020
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Required
Readings:
A Strange Likeness
The Shoemaker and the Tea
Party
The Kingdom of Matthias
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, 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 another
way as the IUPUI Principles of Undergraduate Learning: www.iupui.edu/~history/principlesundergradlearning.htm. We will also discuss these on the first day
of class. More specifically, class
objectives include: identifying and
explaining the economic, religious, and social reasons behind the colonization
of North America by Europeans; identifying and analyzing the motivations for
the American Revolution from the perspective of the colonists and the British;
analyzing the development of slavery; analyzing the development of
industrialization and transportation and how they affected the structure of our
society; analyzing the ways the desire for land shaped the development of the
country; and, finally, the Civil War will be examined from a multitude of
perspectives to attempt to understand the long-term consequences of that
particular war.
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 the
room quietly. Place all cell phones on
vibrate or turn them off for the duration of the class. Please do not leave
class early for other appointments. Listening and note taking are important
study 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 over A Strange Likeness, 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. Makeup examinations and quizzes are strongly
discouraged. Makeup quizzes WILL NOT be
taken from the study guide which is part of this syllabus. 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 makeup exam or quiz if the documentation is not presented or is
deemed invalid. If a makeup exam or quiz
is approved it must be completed within one week of the original exam or
quiz. Incompletes are never 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
25: Introduction to the Class
August
30: Age of Exploration
Read: EV Chapters 1 and 2
September
1: Early Colonial Settlements
Read: EV Chapter 3 and A Strange Likeness
September
6: Labor
Day—No classes
September
8: Colonial Settlements and the
Development of Slavery
September
13: QUIZ over A Strange Likeness
September
15: The Puritans
September
20: Witches and Historians
September
22: Colonial Governments and Colonial
Changes
Read: EV Chapter 4
September:
27: Reason and Religion
September
29: EXAM
I
October
4: Imperial Policy and Colonists Rights
Read EV Chapters 5 and 6
and The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
October
6: Making a Rebellion
October
11: The Social Significance of War
October
13: QUIZ
over The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
October
18: Constitutional Convention and
Ratification Debates
October
20: The Federalists
Read: EV Chapter 7
October
25: The Federalists
October
27: The Jeffersonians
Read: EV Chapter 8
November
1: EXAM
II
November
3: New Ways to Live and Work
Read: EV Chapters 9 and 11
November
8: New Ways to Live and Work
November
10: Southern Society and Slave Culture
Read: EV Chapter 12
November
15: Limits of Liberty
November
17: Reform
Read: EV Chapter 10 and The Kingdom of Matthias
November
22: QUIZ
over The Kingdom of Matthias
November
24: Thanksgiving
Holiday—No Classes
November
29: Antebellum Politics
Read: EV Chapter 13
December
1: Manifest Destiny
Read: EV Chapter 14
December
6: Civil War
Read: EV Chapter 15
December
8: Civil War
December
13: Civil War
Section 15409 MW 2:30-3:45
December 15 (Wednesday) 1-3:00 p.m.
Section 15408 MW 4:00-5:15
December 20 (Monday) 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Study
Questions for A Strange Likeness
Omit
the Introduction and Conclusion
Chapter
1: What does the story of the Indians
and McClure tell us about the two cultures?
How did Indian groups own land?
How did individual Indians use land?
Why and how did Indians change land use in the late eighteenth
century? How was land use similar to
European patterns in the early years?
Describe differences in the ways Europeans and Indians measured the
land. How did Indians mark the land? How
did Europeans mark the land?
Chapter
2: Describe similarities in the
political structures of Native Americans and European societies. Why did Europeans try to find Indians who
ruled as absolute monarchs? How did
Indians and Europeans show rank and status?
Were Indians impressed by European wealth? Why?
What stereotypes did each group develop about the other?
Chapter
3: Why was the painting of William Penn
and the Delawares created? How did
Indians keep records when they had no form of writing as the Europeans did? What was the reaction by each to their ways
of remembering?
Chapter
4: Explain “one dish and one spoon”
alliances and give an example for Indians and Europeans. Explain and give an example of “nation within
nation” alliances for Indians and Europeans.
Chapter
5: How were Indians and Europeans alike
in the use of gender metaphors and gender roles? How were they different? How did Indian nations use kinship terms to
signify relationships between them?
Chapter
6: How does the author believe the terms
white and red came into use among Indians and Europeans? How did each group use the terms over time?
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?