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| Course: HIS103 First Term: 2024 Fall
Final Term: Current
Final Term: 9999
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Lecture 3.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load
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| 1. Explain the factors driving European exploration and colonization in the 15th and 16th centuries. (I, II)
2. Compare the permanent European settlements in North America, their relationship to Native Americans, and early slavery in the colonies. (II, III) 3. Evaluate the political, cultural, social, and economic factors that led to, and determined the outcome of, the American Revolution. (III, IV, V) 4. Analyze the factors leading to the calling of the Constitutional Convention and their role in shaping its work. (VI) 5. Examine the rise of nationalism and the formation of national institutions during the early republic. (VI, VII) 6. Describe the growth of democracy in the antebellum era and the social and cultural context that drove it. (VII, VIII) 7. Identify the factors fueling the market revolution of the early 19th century and its broader impact on national development. (VII, VIII, IX) 8. Determine the forces transforming society and culture between 1820-60. (IX, X) 9. Evaluate the impact of slavery on the social, political, economic, and cultural institutions of the antebellum South. (X) 10. Analyze the factors driving westward expansion and the role expansion played in fueling sectional tensions. (XI) 11. Assess the sectional tensions in the 1850s and how they led to secession. (XI) 12. Compare the factors that shaped the outcome of the Civil War and led to the emancipation of the slaves and the postwar Reconstruction of the South. (XII) | |||
| MCCCD Official Course Competencies must be coordinated with the content outline so that each major point in the outline serves one or more competencies. MCCCD faculty retains authority in determining the pedagogical approach, methodology, content sequencing, and assessment metrics for student work. Please see individual course syllabi for additional information, including specific course requirements. | |||
| MCCCD Official Course Outline | |||
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I. Worlds collide
A. Native American Society before 1492 B. Europe on the Eve of Exploration C. The African Encounter II. Exploration and colonialization A. Spain and the Americas B. The beginnings of English settlement in north America 1. Jamestown 2. Colonial New England 3. Expansion in the 17th century C. The French and Dutch in North America III. Imperial America A. Colonial society and economy B. The first great awakening C. Native Americans and Europeans D. Expansion of slavery IV. Imperial Collapse: Eroding the bonds of empire A. Imperial wars in the 17th and 18th centuries B. Postwar problems of empire C. Taxes and protests D. The Boston Tea Party and the outbreak of war V. The American Revolution A. Towards independence, 1775-1776 B. Saratoga and the French intervention C. The war moves south D. Victory and peace E. Social and cultural characteristics VI. from Confederation to constitution A. The confederation period 1. Economic problems 2. Diplomatic issues B. The constitutional convention 1. Background 2. Drafting 3. Ratification C. The federalist era 1. The new federal government 2. George Washington’s administration 3. Hamiltonian federalism versus Jeffersonian democracy 4. Native Americans and westward expansion 5. France and the wars in Europe 6. The election of 1800 VII. The Jeffersonian republic A. The Jeffersonian revolution 1. Domestic policies 2. Louisiana purchase B. International crises 1. Trade embargoes and sailors’ rights 2. The frontier and Native American resistance 3. War of 1812 C. The Era of Good Feelings 1. Postwar nationalism 2. Panic of 1819 3. The Missouri crisis 4. The election of 1824 VIII. The Jacksonian era A. Jacksonian democracy and extension of suffrage B. Indian removal C. Bank war D. Nullification crisis E. Economic panic and recession F. Rise of the Whig party G. Election of 1840 and the Whigs in power IX. National expansion and a growing economy A. The market revolution 1. Agricultural expansion 2. Industrial change and urbanization 3. A transportation revolution 4. Labor and immigration B. Social and cultural change 1. Rise of the middle class 2. Second great awakening 3. Social reform movements 4. A literary renaissance X. Slavery and the antebellum south A. Cotton and the economics of slavery B. Planters, racism, and paternalism C. Slave families, kinship, and community D. Resistance and rebellion E. Abolitionism XI. The Sectional crisis: a house dividing A. Westward expansion in the antebellum era 1. Manifest destiny 2. The frontier and the plains Indians 3. The Oregon question B. War with Mexico 1. Mexican borderlands, and the Texas revolution 2. Campaigns 3. Wilmot Proviso and slavery in the new territories C. Compromise of 1850 1. Origins: The gold rush and California statehood 2. Fugitive slave act D. Kansas-Nebraska crisis 1. Kansas-Nebraska act 2. Bleeding Kansas 3. Bleeding Sumner E. Debates over slavery 1. Dred Scott and popular sovereignty 2. Lincoln/Douglas 3. Election of 1860 XII. Secession and civil war A. The gathering storm 1. Secession 2. Establishing the confederacy B. Campaigns and battles 1. Initial fighting 2. War in the East 3. War in the West 4. The road to Appomattox C. Social and political 1. Two peoples at war a. Volunteering and the draft b. Women and the war 2. Slavery and emancipation a. Emancipation proclamation b. African Americans and the war 3. Towards peace a. Wartime reconstruction b. Lincoln’s assassination c. The toll of war | |||
MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: February 27, 2024 | |||