Reading Schedule & Overview
American Pageant Cornell Notes Layout
Below are the links to the textbook we currently use in class.
If you're feeling fancy, you can buy a notebook already outlined for you here.Chapter notes
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Primary & Secondary Documents + Debate Materials
Pre-European Contact
Exploration and Discovery
Charles Mann, 1491 (excerpt)
The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Diseases between The Old and New Worlds
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda Belittles the Indians (1547) and Bartolemé de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552) (Pages 1-4)
Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519) (Start at the bottom of page 2)
The Columbian Exchange: Plants, Animals, and Diseases between The Old and New Worlds
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda Belittles the Indians (1547) and Bartolemé de Las Casas Defends the Indians (1552) (Pages 1-4)
Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519) (Start at the bottom of page 2)
Colonialism
Serving Time in Virginia
City Upon a Hill
Great Awakening vs. Enlightenment (Did the Great Awakening or the Enlightenment have the greater influence on American society and culture from the 18th century to the present?) Great Awakening/Enlightenment questions
The Transformation of European Society
A Rhode Island Quaker Sympathizes with the Indians 1675
City Upon a Hill
Great Awakening vs. Enlightenment (Did the Great Awakening or the Enlightenment have the greater influence on American society and culture from the 18th century to the present?) Great Awakening/Enlightenment questions
The Transformation of European Society
A Rhode Island Quaker Sympathizes with the Indians 1675
Independence
“Sir William Johnson Describes the Indians’ Grievances (1763)”; “Pontiac Rallies His Warriors" (1763)
A New Nation
Manifest Destiny & Sectionalism
de Tocqueville: Book I Chapter 18
Mexican-American War historiography
Reformers Debate
Reformers Article
Mexican-American War historiography
Reformers Debate
Reformers Article
Reconstruction and Civil War Amendments
Interactive site --- pre- and post- Reconstruction
Reconstruction documents
Issue 18
Civil War ppt
Out of Our Past- Dawn Without Noon (Rotate in pdf viewer to read)
Women's Suffrage/14th & 15th Amendment
Susan B. Anthony on Trial for Voting
The Progress of Colored Women
Elk v. Wilkins (Native Americans and the 14th Amendment)
Post-Reconstruction and Industrialization
Boss Tweed Debate
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Urbanization, Labor & Society Late 1800s
Progressives & Imperialism
World War I
Stations for WWI lesson (adapted from Mr. Costa)
Why Did The US Enter WWI? -- A World Safe for Democracy -- Songs of WWI -- Schenck v. US -- Eugene Debs Speech