I. Course Number, Description, and Instructor Information

El Paso Community College Syllabus – Fall 2016 Part I: Instructor’s Course Requirements

I. Course Number, Description, and Instructor Information History of the United States to 1877 (HIST 1301) – CRN 14259 Instructor: Eduardo Jose Hinojos, M.A. (History) Room Number: G3020 Office: (915) 937-3021 Email: [email protected] EPCC Email: PENDING School Website: http://www.sisd.net/Domain/170

This course fulfills the United States History high school credit of the graduation requirements. Topics in this course include life and society in Colonial America, revolutionary ideology, the development of the Constitution and the early republic, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy, reform movement of the nineteenth century, Manifest Destiny, Sectionalism, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Throughout this course, there will be an emphasis on mastering a substantial amount of historical information (not a memorization of dates and names), reading and interpreting primary and secondary documents, writing critical essays and short answer responses, comparing and contextualizing information, creating chronological reasoning, developing historical interpretation and synthesis, and crafting historical argument from evidence.

II. Text and Materials

Foner, Eric. Give Me Liberty!: An American History. Seagull Fourth ed. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2014.

The course instructor will also provide students with primary and secondary sources that they will be required to read throughout the semester.

III. Course Requirements  Assignments o Chapter Reading and Note Taking (Daily) o Reading Quizzes (Tests/Quizzes) o Chapter Exams (Tests/Quizzes) o Enrichment Activities (Daily) o Writing Practice (Daily OR Tests/Quizzes) o U.S. History Outside Readings (Tests/Quizzes)

 Grading Policy o Daily Assignments (40%) – including notebook checks, in-class assignments, journal assignments, writing assignments (unless otherwise noted), and discussion points o Tests/Quizzes (40%) – including chapter reading quizzes, chapter exams, projects, nine weeks exams, and semester exams o Homework (20%) – including any assignment given to students to complete at home  Grading Scale 100-90 A 89-80 B 79-70 C 69-60 D 59-0 F

IV. Instructor’s Policies  Academic Dishonesty o Scholastic dishonesty will NOT be tolerated! Students who are caught, by anyone in authority, violating the Student Code of Conduct provisions concerning cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion will be given a grade of zero on the assignment involved. Disciplinary action will be taken.  Late work o Late work will not be accepted. Dire circumstances are subject to personal approval of the instructor.  Attendance o Attendance is expected as per the Socorro ISD policy. Attendance in this course is critically important, as the pace of this course is accelerated and it is easy to fall behind. If you miss a class, please ask about your missing work on the day you return. Please take this seriously. It is your responsibility, not mine, to ask about your work.  Electronic Devices o No personal electronic devices will be allowed in class. This included, but is not limited to, cell phones, tablets, reading devices, or laptops.  Classroom Policies o All school and district rules will be enforced in this class. Please refer to the Socorro ISD Student Handbook and Student Code of Conduct for further information. o Students must also adhere to the EPCC Student Code of Conduct published in the College Catalog and the Student Handbook.

 Withdrawal Date o The last day to withdraw from the course with a "W” is November 13th, 2015. Please speak to the instructor and counselor immediately if you are concerned about this course.

Hinojos - 2  Students with Disabilities o If students have a disability that requires an accommodation, they may contact the Center for Students with Disabilities at the Valle Verde campus or at 831-2426. In accordance with federal law, it is the student’s responsibility to speak to a counselor and provide proof of the disability. All discussions and documentation are kept confidential.

**Note: This syllabus is subject to change at the discretion of the instructor. Students will be notified of all changes with appropriate notice.**

V. Course Schedule

Wee Assessment Dates Theme Topics Readings Activities k s Foner, Chapter 1; "A New World;" Zinn, Historiography; "Columbus, Class Early Inhabitants The Indians, Discussion; of the Americas; and Human "Changing Pre- August Indian Empires Progress;" Views of Assessment; 15th - Pre-Columbian and cultures Schweikart 2 Columbus" Reading August Societies throughout North and Allen Debate; Quiz, 19th and Central “Did Graphic Chapter 1 America; Americas Columbus Kill Organizer; at the time of Most of the Protocol European contact Indians?;” Allen, "Two Cheers for the Conquistador " Spain's Empire in North America; French Class Colonization of Discussion; Canada; English Graphic Reading Transatlantic Settlement of New Foner, Organizer; Quiz, August Encounters England, the Mid- Chapter 2; Writing Chapter 2; 3 22th- 26th and Colonial Atlantic region, Foner, Practice; Reading Beginnings and the South; Chapter 3. Protocol; Quiz, Religious diversity Primary Chapter 3 in the American Source colonies; Analysis Resistance to colonial authority

Hinojos - 3 Population Growth and Immigration; Transatlantic Class Trade and Growth Discussion; of Seaports; Foner, Primary Colonial North Plantation Aug 29 – Chapter 4; Source Exam 4 America, 1690- Economies and Sep 2nd Common Analysis; Chapters 1-3 1754 Slave Societies; Sense Protocol; Enlightenment and Writing Great Awakening; Practice Colonial Governments and Imperial Policy Declaration of Independence; The Declaration of United States Class Independence Sep 6th - Celebrate Constitution; Discussion; 5 ; Constitution; Unit 4 Quiz 9th Freedom Week Alexis de Writing de Tocqueville and Practice; Tocqueville the Five Values of Democracy The French and Class Indian; The Discussion; Imperial Crisis and Foner, Protocol; Reading The American Resistance to Chapter 5; Graphic Quiz, Sep 12th- Revolutionary 6 Britain; War for Articles of Organizer; Chapter 5; 16th Era, 1754- Independence; Confederation Small Group Exam 1789 State constitution . Seminar; Chapters 4-5 and the Articles of Writing Confederation Practice The Constitution; Shaping of the Class The American National Discussion; Revolutionary Foner, Reading Government; Small Group Era, 1754- Chapter 6; Quiz, Emergence of Seminar; Sep 19th 1789 Foner, Chapter 6; 7 Political Parties; Writing -23rd (continued); Chapter 7; Reading Republic Practice; The Early Federalist Quiz, Motherhood; Graphic Republic, Papers 10/51 Chapter 7 Beginnings of the Organizer; 1789-1815 Second Great Protocol Awakening 8 Sep 26th The Early Jefferson's Foner, Class Exam -30th Republic, Presidency; Chapter 8, 10, Discussion; Chapters 6-7 1789-1815 Westward 11 - Pages Protocol; (continued); Expansion beyond 219-22, 262- Primary Transformatio the Appalachian 279, 305-317 Source n of the Mountains; Analysis; Economy and American Indian Political Society in Resistance; Cartoon Antebellum Growth of slavery; Analysis; America War of 1812; Marshall Transportation Court Revolution; Analysis Creation of a National Economy

Hinojos - 4 Oct. 3rd No School - 9 -14th Intercession

Class Changes in Social Discussion; and Class Transformatio Protocol; Structure; n of the Writing Immigration and Economy and Practice; Exam Nativist Reactions; Society in Small Group Chapters 8, Cotton South; October Antebellum Foner, Seminar; 10, 11; 10 Emergence of the 17th-21st America; Chapter 9; Primary Reading Second Party Transformatio Source Quiz, System; Federal n of Politics in Analysis; Chapter 9 Authority and its Antebellum Debate; Opponents; America Political Jacksonian Cartoon Democracy Analysis

Religion, Evangelical Reform, and Reading Protestant Renaissance in Class Quiz, Revivalism; Social Foner, Antebellum Discussion; Chapter 12; October Reforms; Cult of Chapter 12; 11 America; Protocol; Nine Nine Weeks 24th -28th Domesticity; Foner, Territorial Weeks Exams, Transcendentalis Chapter 13 Expansion and Review Chapters 1- m; American Manifest 12 Renaissance Destiny

Hinojos - 5 Class Forced Removal of Discussion; American Indians; Protocol; Territorial Western Migration Writing Expansion and and Cultural Oct. 31st Foner, Practice; 12 Manifest Interactions; -Nov. 2nd Chapter 13 Small Group Destiny Territorial Seminar; (continued) Acquisitions; Early Primary U.S. Imperialism; Source Slavery Crisis Analysis Compromise of 1850; Popular Class Sovereignty; Discussion; Kansas-Nebraska Debate; Nov. 7th The Crisis of Act and the Foner, Exam, 13 Writing - 11th the Union Emergence of the Chapter 13; Chapter 13 Practice; Republican Party; Taney Court Lincoln's Analysis Presidency; Secession

Class Two Societies at Discussion; Nov. 14th War; Military Writing Reading - Foner, 14 The Civil War Strategies; Social, Practice; Quiz, Novembe Chapter 14 Political, Economic Graphic Chapter 14 r 18th Effects of War Organizer; Protocol

Novembe No School - r 21st - 15 Thanksgiving Novembe Break r 25th

Class Foreign Gettysburg Discussion; Diplomacy; Exam Nov. 28th The Civil War Address; Counterfactua 16 Emancipation; Chapters 13- - Dec. 2nd (continued) Emancipation l Exercise; Roles of African 14 Proclamation. Protocol; Americans Review

Presidential and Radical Reconstruction; Class Southern State Discussion; Dec. 5th Governments; Role Foner, Graphic 17 Reconstruction -9th of African Chapter 15 Organizer; Americans; Writing Compromise of Practice 1877; Impact of Reconstruction

Hinojos - 6 Reconfiguration of Class Southern Discussion; Reading agriculture; Civil Rights Quiz, Dec 12th The Origins of Expansion of Foner, Cases Chapter 15; 18 -16th . the New South manufacturing and Chapter 15 Analysis; Final Exam industrialization; Protocol; (Chapters 1- Politics of Semester 15) segregations Exam Review

Final Exam – Week of December 12th

**Calendar is subject to change**

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