Office: CA 506
Office
Hours: MW 2:15-3:15 and by appointment
Office
Telephone: 278-9020
Email: aashende@iupui.edu
Required
Readings:
Salem Possessed
The Shoemaker and the Tea
Party
The Cherokee Removal, 2nd edition
“Reality
often astonishes theory.” Car Talk
The
instructor may change this syllabus.
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. The IUPUI
student code of conduct on this matter is found in the IUPUI Bulletin 2004-06, pp. 36-8 and at
http://life.iupui.edu/help/code.asp
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 Salem Possessed, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party, and The Cherokee Removal. 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:
450-435=A+; 434-420=A; 419-405=A-; 404-390=B+; 389-375=B; 374-360= B-;
359-345=C+; 344-330=C; 329-315=C-; 314-300=D+; 299-285=D; 284-270=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. NO EXTRA CREDIT WILL
BE OFFERED.
Schedule
of lecture topics, readings, quizzes, and examinations. Please complete the readings before class.
August
24: Introduction to the Class
August
29: Age of Exploration
Read: AP Chapters 1 and 2
August
31: Early Colonial Settlements
Read: AP Chapter 3
September
5: HOLIDAY
NO CLASS
September
7: Colonial Settlements and the
Development of Slavery
September
12: The Puritans
September
14: Witches and Historians
Read: Salem
Possessed
September
19: QUIZ on Salem Possessed
September
21: Colonial Governments and Colonial
Changes
Read: AP Chapter 4
September
26: Reason and Religion
September
28: EXAM
I
October
3: Imperial Policy and Colonists Rights
Read: AP Chapter 5 and Shoemaker and the Tea Party
October
5: Making a Rebellion
October
10: The Social Significance of War
October
12: QUIZ
over The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
October
17: Constitutional Convention and
Ratification Debates
Read: AP Chapter 6
October
19: The Federalists
Read: AP Chapters 7 and 8
October
24: The Federalists
October
26: The Jeffersonians
October
31: EXAM
II
November
2: New Ways to Live and Work
Read: AP Chapter 9
November
7: New Ways to Live and Work
November
9: Southern Society and Slave Culture
Read: AP Chapter 12
November
14: Limits of Liberty
Read: The
Cherokee Removal
November
16: Reform
Read: AP Chapters 10 and 11
November
21: QUIZ
over The Cherokee Removal
November
23: HOLIDAY
NO CLASS
November
28: Antebellum Politics
Read: AP Chapter 13
November
30: Manifest Destiny
Read: AP Chapter 14
December
5: Civil War
Read: AP Chapter 15
December
7: Civil War
December
12: Civil War
Study
Questions for Salem Possessed (Continued on next page)
Prologue: Describe the 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? If so, what was it?
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
the 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
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
guide for The Cherokee Removal
Questions
from the Introduction
Questions
from the Documents