Course: HIS103 First Term: 2016 Fall
Final Term: Current
Final Term: 2024 Summer
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies | |||
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1. Describe the Pre-Columbian world on four continents, the Americas, Europe, and Africa. (I)
2. Explain the factors behind European exploration in the 15th and 16th Centuries. (I, II) 3. Describe the early colonization of North America by the English, French, and Dutch. (II) 4. Describe and compare the permanent English settlements in North America, their relationship to Native Americans, and early slavery in the colonies. (II, III) 5. Analyze the growing political and economic differences between Britain and the colonies, the role of the French and Indian War, and Imperial decrees that led to the American Revolution. (III, IV) 6. Describe the major political and military events of the American Revolution leading to the collapse of British military forces at Yorktown, Virginia. (IV, V) 7. Explain the events leading to the Constitutional Convention, the early Administrations, and the development of Hamiltonian federalism and Jeffersonian democracy. (VI, VII) 8. Explain the rise of nationalism and expansion following the War of 1812. (VII) 9. Describe the meaning of Jacksonian Democracy and the Age of Jackson. (VIII, IX) 10. Analyze the economic expansion of the U.S. between 1820-60, in agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, population growth, and immigration. (IX, X) 11. Review social changes in the nation between 1820-60, including the emergence of a middle class, the reform movements, and a national literary renaissance. (IX, X) 12. Analyze slavery and the Ante-Bellum South, the plantation culture, and the Abolitionist/anti-slavery movement in the North. (X) 13. Describe the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, the Oregon acquisition, Texas annexation, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. (XI) 14. Review the increasing sectional tensions leading to Lincoln`s election, the secession of southern states, and the formation of the Confederacy. (XI) 15. Explain the demographic and industrial advantages of the North. (XI, XII) 16. Describe the salient features of the Civil War and the turning points at Antietam, Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg, leading to the surrender at Appomattox in 1865. (XII) 17. Explain the impact of the assassination of Lincoln, and review the outcome of the War on the nation and its future. (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 | |||
I. WORLDS COLLIDE
A. Native American Society before 1492 1. Diverse culture of the Americas 2. Mesoamerican civilizations 3. North American civilizations B. Western Europe on the Eve of Exploration 1. Consolidation and centralized monarchies 2. Commerce and nationalism 3. Christopher Columbus and the westward route to Asia 4. The Columbian Exchange C. West African Societies 1. Geographical and political diversity 2. Family structure and religion 3. Trade and slavery II. TRANSPLANTATION AND COLONIZATION A. English Settlement in North America 1. Jamestown and the Middle Colonies 2. Tobacco and the introduction of slavery 3. The House of Burgesses and political participation B. Colonial New England 1. Puritan migration to Massachusetts 2. City Upon a Hill 3. Religion, family, farms and communities in New England C. The French and Dutch in North America 1. Quest for Furs and Converts 2. Development of New France and Louisiana 3. Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson III. CREATING A NEW WORLD A. Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial America 1. Women and families in colonial society 2. Response to economic competition and colonial trade 3. Colonial religion and the Great Awakening B. Native Americans and Europeans 1. Displacing Native Americans in the English colonies 2. Conflict and War C. Africans and Europeans 1. Agricultural demands and slavery 2. African slaves in the New World 3. Constructing African American identities D. Convergence and Conflict 1. Imperial Trade in the British colonies 2. The colonial political world 3. A century of warfare 4. Battle for a Continent: the French & Indian War 5. Triumph of the British Empire IV. IMPERIAL COLLAPSE: ERODING THE BONDS OF EMPIRE A. Economic problems and the New Territories B. Breakdown of political trust C. No Taxation Without Representation: justifying resistance D. The Protests spread: American responses E. The Shot Heard `Round the World V. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION A. Second Continental Congress B. Colonial participation and conflicting decisions C. Declaration of Independence D. Women, African Americans, and Native Americans in the War E. Americans gain an ally: France`s contribution and participation F. The war moves South G. Yorktown and victory H. Peace of Paris VI. AN AMERICAN REPUBLIC A. Articles of Confederation B. Economic problems plague the new nation C. Diplomatic weaknesses: Britain and Spain in the western territories D. The road to Philadelphia E. The Constitutional Convention F. Ratification and a New Republic VII. THE NEW REPUBLIC: DEMOCRACY AND DISSENT A. Forging a New Nation 1. George Washington administration 2. Bill of Rights 3. Hamilton`s plan for prosperity and security 4. Reaction and Opposition 5. Solving the western problems with Britain and Spain 6. Native Americans and the new nation B. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison Presidencies 1. War with France 2. Crushing dissent at home 3. The Peaceful Revolution: 1800 election 4. Louisiana Purchase 5. Embargo and a crippled presidency 6. The frontier and Native American resistance 7. War of 1812 8. Victory at New Orleans 9. Treaty of Ghent, status quo ante bellum C. The Era of Good Feelings 1. Economic and diplomatic nationalism 2. Judicial nationalism 3. Panic of 1819 4. Missouri Compromise of 1820 5. Election of 1824 VIII. THE JACKSONIAN ERA A. Jacksonian democracy and extension of suffrage B. Nullification Crisis C. Bank War D. Indian Removal 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 Way West 1. Agricultural expansion 2. Manifest Destiny 3. The frontier and the Plains Indians 4. Mexican borderlands, and the Texas Revolution 5. Politics, expansion, and war B. Urbanization and Moral Reform 1. Industrial change and urbanization 2. A transportation revolution 3. Social reform movements 4. Rise of the Middle Class 5. A literary renaissance X. COTTON, SLAVERY AND THE OLD SOUTH A. King Cotton B. Slavery in the ante-bellum South C. Planters, Racism, and Paternalism D. Slave families, kinship, and community E. Resistance and Rebellion F. Abolitionist movement in the North XI. THE SECTIONAL CRISIS: A HOUSE DIVIDING A. Wilmot Proviso and slavery in the new territories B. Compromise of 1850 C. Kansas-Nebraska Act D. Bleeding Kansas E. Dred Scott and Popular Sovereignty F. Debating the Morality of Slavery: Lincoln/Douglas XII. SECESSION AND CIVIL WAR A. The Gathering Storm 1. Election of 1860 2. The Deep South secedes 3. Compromise fails 4. The Upper South secedes 5. Fight for the Middle Border states B. Total War 1. Early campaigns and battles 2. War in the East: from Antietam to Gettysburg 3. Emancipation Proclamation 4. African Americans and the War 5. War in the West: Shiloh to Savannah 6. The human toll 7. Women and the War 8. The Road to Appomattox and the Death of Lincoln 9. The problems of peacemaking | |||
MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: 3/23/2010 |