US History I Early America to Reconstruction

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US History I Early America to Reconstruction

• Professor Jaime Fauver
• TEC 112, Mon Wed
• June 28-Aug 2, 2006
• 800AM-1205PM

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Class Introductions

• About me
• Index Card
• Name
• Phone Number(s)
• Email Address (BCC preferred)
• Introduce yourself
• Name
• Major or Area of Interest
• Favorite Movie, TV Show and/or Music

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Class Website

• http//www.pages.drexel.edu/jmf67/BCC/HIS101.html
  
• This site will contain
• Lectures
• Websites relating to class issues
• Websites that may be helpful to you for
  assignments
• Links to sites about MLA and APA citation style

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What is History?

• What do you perceive to be history?
• What does the study of history involve?
• What do historians do?

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History is . . .

• Dynamic
• Constantly changing
• Based on perspective
• History is actually made up of multiple,
  overlapping, conflicting histories
• History is a viewpoint history is an
  interpretation of the past
• In this class, we will look at multiple
  viewpoints of the past

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Types of History

• Top-down
• Political
• Military
• Economic
• Social
• Gender
• Race and Ethnicity
• Class
• Gender, Race and Class can each be considered
  its own category of history but many features fit
  under Social History
• Cultural
• Intellectual
• Environmental
• Many others Examples?? Ideas??

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Overview of this course

• 5 weeks to cover approximately 400 years
• Introductory course
• Many of the topics that will be briefly
  mentioned by me or the text could be an entire
  course in itself
• We will look at multiple perspectives of major
  events and time periods to gain an understanding
  of life in America in the past

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Syllabus Discussion

• Expectations
• Goals
• Assignments
• Class Format
• Questions?

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Properly Cite References

• What does this mean?
• Why is it necessary to properly cite references?
• When is it necessary to properly cite references?
• How is this done?

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Citation Styles

• MLA and APA are the most common
• Can use footnotes/endnotes or in-text references
• Complete information about each source must be
  included in bibliography or works cited page

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Citing references

• What should be cited?
• All ideas, opinions, statements, etc. that are
  not your own and that are not part of the public
  domain
• when in doubt, always provide a citation
• Books, articles, websites, films, music, even the
  textbook ----- in short, every format of
  information can and should be cited properly

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MLA

• In-text parenthetical citations (Author page)
• Works Cited page that includes all references
• Examples In-text Citations works cited
• Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked
  by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
  (263).
• Romantic poetry is characterized by the
  "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"
  (Wordsworth 263).
• Wordsworth extensively explored the role of
  emotion in the creative process (263).
• Works Cited
• Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. London
  Oxford U.P., 1967.

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MLA formats

• Books
• Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of
  Publication Publisher, Year of Publication.
• Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver
  MacMurray, 1999.
• Periodicals
• Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of
  Periodical. Day Month Year pages.
• Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call."
  Time 20 Nov. 2000 70-71.

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MLA formats

• Electronic Resources
• Website (containing article, image, or any other
  information)
• Author (if known). Title of Page or Document.
  Title of the Site or Larger Work. (if
  applicable). Date of electronic publication, last
  update, or date of posting. Name of any
  Associated Institution. Date of download.
  http//address/filename.
• Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical
  Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 May
  2006 .
• The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. 26 Aug. 2005. The
  Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue
  University. 23 April 2006.
  due.edu/.
• "Caret." Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. 28
  April 2006. 10 May 2006.
  wiki/Caret.
• Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800.
  Museo del Prado, Madrid. 22 May 2006
  .

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APA

• In-text citations (Author, Date, page)
• Reference page that contains full info for all
  references
• Examples (in-text citation)
• She stated, "Students often had difficulty using
  APA style," (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did
  not offer an explanation as to why.
• According to Jones (1998), "Students often had
  difficulty using APA style, especially when it
  was their first time" (p. 199).
• Another study of students and research decisions
  discovered that students succeeded with tutoring
  ("Tutoring and APA," n.d.).

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APA formats

• Books
• Author, A. A. (Year of publication). Title of
  work Capital letter also for subtitle. Location
  Publisher.
• Calfee, R. C., Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA
  guide to preparing manuscripts for journal
  publication. Washington, DC American
  Psychological Association.
• Periodicals
• Author, A. A., Author, B. B., Author, C. C.
  (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
  volume number(issue number), pages.
• Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing
  psychology journal articles. Journal of
  Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55,
  893-896.

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APA formats electronic resources

• Online article
• Author, A. A., Author, B. B. (Date of
  publication). Title of article. Title of journal,
  volume number(issue number if available).
  Retrieved month day, year, from
  http//www.someaddress.com/full/url/
• Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the
  living Web. A List Apart For People Who Make
  Websites, 149. Retrieved May 2, 2006 from
  http//www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving
• Web document (web site)
• Author, A. A., Author, B. B. (Date of
  publication). Title of document. Retrieved month
  date, year, from http//Web address.
• Chapter, page or section of web document
• Author, A. A., Author, B. B. (Date of
  publication). Title of article. In Title of book
  or larger document (chapter or section number).
  Retrieved month day, year from http//www.someaddr
  ess.com/full/url/.
• Engelshcall, R. S. (1997). Module mod_rewrite
  URL Rewriting Engine. In Apache HTTP Server
  Version 1.3 Documentation (Apache modules.)
  Retrieved March 10, 2006 from http//httpd.apache.
  org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html

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Citation and Reference Help

• Ask a librarian or ask me for help
• Websites
• MLA (site contains numerous examples)
  http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/
  
• APA (site contains numerous examples)
  http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
  
• Citing electronic and online materials
  http//www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/citex.html
  
• MLA examples (from Springfield HS Library Site)
  http//mciu.org/7Espjvweb/mla.html

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References and Citations

• Always provide adequate information for your
  audience/reader to find the info you used
• It is better to cite too much (and give too much
  information) than too little
• Good scholarship builds on other scholarship
  giving credit to your sources is essential to
  good scholarship
• ASK FOR HELP!!!! (Librarians love to help!)

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Timeline of Major Events/Issues Studied in US
History I

• 12,000 BCE 1492
• Paleo-Indians migrate to North America
• Mayan civilization
• Aztec civilization
• North American societies and peoples
• 1492-1640
• Columbus Voyage and Encounters with Native
  Americans
• Other European Explorations Cabot, Ponce de
  Leon
• Smallpox epidemic
• Columbian Exchange
• Colonization
• Virginia tobacco crop

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Timeline (cont.)

• 1640-1720
• Continued development of colonial societies
• Bacons Rebellion
• Witchcraft trials in Salem, Mass.
• Slavery African and Indian
• Atlantic Slave trade
• 1720-1750s
• Enlightenment Lockes writings
• Great Awakening
• Growth of Plantations
• Race relations and white fears of slave revolts

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Timeline (cont.)

• 1754-1776
• Seven Years War
• Sugar Act, Currency Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory
  Act, Townshend Acts, Tea Acts
• Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party
• First Continental Congress
• Battles of Lexington and Concord
• Declaration of Independence
• 1777-1789
• Continued Battles
• Yorktown and Cornwallis surrender
• Treaty of Paris
• Articles of Confederation
• Federalist papers Constitutional debates and
  compromises
• US Constitution

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Timeline (cont.)

• 1789-1815
• Washington
• Bill of Rights
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Marbury v. Madison and judicial review
• Lewis and Clark expedition Louisiana territory
• War of 1812
• Indian removal policies
• 1816-1845
• Missouri Compromise
• New England Textile Mills Lowell mills
• Monroe Doctrine
• Indian Removal Act passed in Congress Trail of
  Tears
• Railroad Era begins and Western Expansion
• Temperance, Abolitionist movements
• Jackson

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Timeline (cont.)

• 1846-1860
• Seneca Falls Convention
• Utopian communities
• Religious communities - Mormon
• Immigration Irish, German, Chinese
• Gold discovered in California
• Uncle Toms Cabin published
• Cotton as Americas leading export
• Turner and Slave Rebellion
• Abolitionist movement intensifies
• Womens rights movement intensifies
• War with Mexico
• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• Browns raid at Harpers Ferry
• Lincoln elected

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Timeline (cont.)

• 1861-1865
• Southern states secede
• Attack on Fort Sumter
• Civil War Battles
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Draft Riots in New York City
• Lee surrenders
• Lincoln assassinated
• 1865-1877
• Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
• Johnsons Reconstruction policies
• Black Codes
• Civil Rights Act and Freedmens Bureau
• Ku Klux Klan
• Panic of 1873
• Democrats gain power over Republicans and
  Reconstruction considered over

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Questions/Comments/Concerns?

• Next, we will move on to the first lecture that
  covers material in chapters 1 and 2 of your
  textbook.
• Early American civilizations
• European exploration and settlement