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I. History as Social Science
A. Understanding the present through analysis of the past
B. The study of history: methods of inquiry, primary and secondary sources, analysis and
critical thinking
II. Defining Race, Ethnicity and Gender
A. Race & gender: biological imperatives or social constructs
B. Ethnicity: phenotypically or culturally determined
C. Minority group: numbers or relationship to power
D. Ethnocentrism in a pluralistic society
E. E Pluribus Unum: "Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl"
III. Pre-Columbian America
A. The diverse cultures of Native America
B. Impact of Euro/African invasion on indigenous cultures
IV. Colonial America in the Age of Empire
A. Spanish, French and English settlement
1. Cooperation with and conquest of indigenous peoples
2. Slavery and empire
B. Protestant Reformation and English America
1. English identity in the wake of the Reformation
2. The Chesapeake: commercial enterprise, individualism and profit
3. Puritan New England: religion, family and community
V. Africans in America: Slavery and the Atlantic World
A. The Atlantic slave trade
B. Indentured servitude and chattel slavery in early Virginia
C. Slavery and the British mainland colonies
VI. Race and Republicanism
A. Declaration of Independence: its meaning and legacy
B. The Constitution and slavery
C. Race and national identity following the Revolution
D. Naturalization Act of 1790
E. Red, white and black in Jeffersonian America
VII. Race, Class and Gender in the Market Economy
A. Cotton kingdom and the spread of slavery
B. Indian removal in the Age of Jackson
C. Rise of the factory and the "Cult of Domesticity"
D. Abolition and the birth of women's rights
1. Women and the abolitionist crusade
2. Seneca Falls & the Declaration of Sentiments
VIII. Immigration in Antebellum America
A. The Irish experience
B. The German experience
IX. Race and Manifest Destiny
A. Conquest of Mexico: the Mexican American War
B. Foreigners in their own land: Mexican Americans & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
C. "Climbing Gold Mountain": the Chinese Experience
X. Civil War and Emancipation
A. War for Union/War against slavery
B. Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
XI. Race and Reaction: the Failure of Reconstruction
A. 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
B. Black suffrage versus women's suffrage
C. White supremacy and the "New South"
D. Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
XII. Reservations and Resistance
A. The "Iron Horse" and the "End of the Frontier"
B. Dawes Act, 1887
C. Wounded Knee, 1890
XIII. Immigration 1880 - 1930
A. The Japanese experience
B. The Jewish experience
C. The Mexican experience
XIV. Politics of Exclusion 1880 - 1930
A. Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
B. Gentleman's Agreement, 1907
C. National Origins Act, 1924
XV. Migration and Political Realignments
A. America Moves to the City: 1880 - 1920
B. Southern Blacks and the Great Migration, 1910 - 1930
1. World War I and the "New Negro"
2. Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
3. Harlem Renaissance
C. El Norte: Mexican Immigration and the Capitalist West
D. Great Depression and Dust Bowl Migrants
E. Great Depression and Mexican Repatriation
F. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
1. New Deal liberalism and an emerging Democratic majority
2. Labor and minorities in the New Deal coalition
3. Indian Reorganization Act, 1934
XVI. World War II and the Winds of Change
A. "Arsenal of Democracy": America Prepares for War
B. Pearl Harbor and Japanese American Internment
C. A.P. Randolph, March on Washington Movement/ Executive Order 8802
D. "Americans All": Ethnic minorities on the battlefield and on the home front
E. "Rosie the Riveter": Womaning the Factories
XVII. Truman's Fair Deal: Expanding the New Deal Legacy
A. Challenging Southern Democrats
B. Desegregation of the Armed Forces
XVIII. Race, Reform and Rebellion: The Civil Rights Revolution
A. Mendez v. Westminster, 1946
B. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
C. Civil Rights Movement, 1955 - 1965
1. Martin Luther King and non-violence as strategy and philosophy
2. Boycotts, sit-ins, freedom rides, and freedom schools
3. Civil Rights Act of 1964
4. Voting Rights Act of 1965
5. Title VII and women's rights
XIX. Immigration Reform and Multicultural America
A. Magnuson Bill, 1943
B. McCarran-Walter Act (Nationality Act), 1952
C. Immigration and Nationality Act, 1965
XX. Continuing Issues and Controversies
A. The Affirmative Action Debate
B. Third Wave Feminism and Women in Politics
C. Immigration