Dual Enrollment US History Fall 2023

Welcome to Mr. Agee’s Dual Enrollment US History Class

Dual Enrollment is an excellent opportunity for you to receive the challenge and reward of taking a college class at a much more convenient and affordable rate, while you are still a student in high school.

It is important to remember as you take this course that it is a college course, not a college prep course.

It will be rigorous, and it will be challenging, but your reward will come from both.

If you earn an A or B in the course, you will receive college credit and maintain eligibility to take more dual enrollment courses all in addition to completing your high school requirement for US History.

Our course guide.

We will be using a free online textbook for both the Fall and Spring semesters. I Strongly Recommend that you purchase the book, rather than printing out the chapters at home to bring to class. The textbook is about half the price of other available textbooks and comes with both Volumes so if you purchase it, you will not need to buy another book in the Spring! Follow the link below. I will keep it here throughout the semester so that you can find it easily.

https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history

You will find options to 1. View online 2. Download a PDF or 3. order a print copy

-The first semester of this course (MTSU calls it History 2010) will provide you with a survey of American History from its earliest beginnings to the Reconstruction Era

-We will be reading and working with both primary and secondary source material throughout the course.

-We will also be reading the entire textbook.

-Nearly all the reading will take place outside of class and class time will be filled with lectures, presentations, discussions, Socratic seminars and assessments.

-You are expected to read all assigned material on time and be prepared for informed participation in all class meetings. I have provided links in this syllabus that will take you to several primary source collections as well as specific scholarly journal articles you will need to read for discussions.

-Nearly all of your grades will be earned through performance on quizzes and tests so keep up with your notes, readings, and participation in class. There will also be several interviews, writing assignments and a final exam. We will discuss these and receive more information during the first week of class.

-The following itinerary will carry us from 1492 to the 1870s. I will assign readings from your text book that coordinate with each lesson as well as additional reading material online or in handout form. You must keep up with all your notes to be successful, but I will not require you to turn in a notebook for a grade.

Part 1

Introduction and Native America (presentation of material culture Items from Eastern Woodland Indian Tribes)

Ancient Africa, the Americas and intersection in the Atlantic basin

Columbian Exchange / Europeans and Africans reach the Americas

Read The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas by Nathan Nunn and Nancy Qian

https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/nunn/files/nunn_qian_jep_2010.pdf

Our First Socratic Seminar

short break from the book- 9/11 background and intro(two day lesson with written assessment to follow)

Part 2

European Colonization of North America (Spain, France, England, Holland, etc.)

The Atlantic Slave Trade

Reading for our second Socratic seminar

Chapters one and two of The INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15399/15399-h/15399-h.htm

Part three

The Atlantic slave trade continued

Bacon’s Rebellion : Its causes and its aftermath

Maturing of colonial society, politics religion, expansion, economics

Part four

The 18^th Century Frontier

French and Indian Wars,

Trade, land, power

Proclamation of 1763

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/proclamation-1763-1763

Part five

Movement towards Independence

Fall Break

The American Revolution

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/americanrevolution/timeline.htm

Part six

Revolution continued

Impact on Native America

National identity

Race and freedom

https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/newnation.html

Part seven

a New Republic/ building a nation

Articles of Confederation, Constitution, Westward Expansion, Federalism, States’ Rights, Slavery

Regionalism

Part eight

Revolution in France and Haiti

Opening the trans-Mississippi West

Foreign relations with France, Spain, and England

The Louisiana Purchase

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/fr1803m.asp

Part nine

Slavery in the Old South

American Indians “New South”

War of 1812/ Creek Indian War of 1813

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/battle-horseshoe-bend-and-end-creek-war-1814

Indian Removal Policy

https://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/native-americans.html

Part eleven

Manifest destiny-

Texas Revolution

Mexican American War

California

https://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/resources/primary_sources.html

Second Major Test In addition to free response questions), you and a partner will interview as a team, responding to prompts about the 1770-1849 period. A study guide will be provided.

Part twelve

Compromise and failure

Expansion of slavery, rise of Abolitionism

Slave revolts and consequences

Dred Scott case and aftermath

Part Thirteen

Growing divide and path to war

Election of 1860

The American Civil War intro

Homefront

https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/women-in-the-civil-war

Battles and leaders