United States History
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Note: This course was begun by User:MrABlair23, who apparently was using it to solicit paid participation elsewhere. Mr. Blair stopped responding after June, 2012, and has also been blocked recently when the paid course work was discovered. Students may use this resource to create essays on the topics; the outline was kept so that this may be done. Note by Abd (discuss • contribs) 00:31, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
- Instructor: Mr. Blair
Welcome to my United States History course! This course will focus on the “encounter” of Europeans to the New World. Native American society and culture will be examined in the face of European colonialism and what can only be described as the greatest land theft in human history: The taking of North America for European settlement and profit. The course will then proceed to analyze settlement patterns and colonial economies. The struggle for independence will be covered as will the beginnings of nation building.
As settlers move west and illegally seize Native American lands, Native American resistance will be examined. By the 1800’s the US was transformed into a free-market economy which facilitated even more growth, settlement and development. The status of African Americans and women will also be analyzed as will the persecution of other ethnic and religious minorities such as Germans and Mormons. The growing sectional split between North and South will be examined as will the outbreak and course of the Civil War.
From there on, we will discuss life in the early 1900s as well as both World Wars, the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold Wars. Throughout this entire course, we will be taking a look at each President throughout history and continue onto the 21st century.
Course Outline
Semester I
- Week 1: The World Before The Opening of the Atlantic (Beginnings - 1500)
- Week 2: New Empires In The Americas (1400 - 1750)
- Week 3: The English Colonies (1605 - 1774)
- Week 4: The American Revolution (1774 - 1783)
- Week 5: Forming A Government (1777 - 1791)
- Week 6: Citizenship & The Constitution (1787 - Present)
- Week 7: Launching the Nation (1789 - 1800)
- Week 8: The Jefferson Era (1800 - 1815)
- Week 9: A New National Identity (1812 - 1830)
- Week 10: The Age of Jackson (1828 - 1840)
- Week 11: Expanding West (1800 - 1855)
- Week 12: The North (1790 - 1860)
- Week 13: The South (1790 - 1860)
- Week 14: New Movements In America (1815 - 1850)
- Week 15: A Divided Nation (1848 - 1860)
- Week 16: The Civil War (1861 - 1865)
- Week 17: Reconstruction (1865 - 1877)
Semester II
- Week 18: An Industrial Nation (1860 - 1920)
- Week 19: The Progressives (1898 - 1920)
- Week 20: Entering the World Stage (1898 - 1917)
- Week 21: The First World War (1914 - 1920)
- Week 22: From War To Peace (1919 - 1928)
- Week 23: The Roaring Twenties (1920 - 1929)
- Week 24: The Great Depression Begins (1929 - 1933)
- Week 25: The New Deal (1933 - 1940)
- Week 26: World War II Erupts (1939 - 1941)
- Week 27: The United States In World War II (1941 - 1945)
- Week 28: The Cold War Begins (1945 - 1953)
- Week 29: Postwar America (1945 - 1960)
- Week 30: The New Frontier and the Great Society (1961 - 1969)
- Week 31: The Civil Rights Movement (1954 - 1975)
- Week 32: The Vietnam War (1954 - 1975)
- Week 33: A Time of Social Change (1963 - 1975)
- Week 34: A Search For Order (1968 - 1980)
- Week 35: A Conservative Era (1980 - 1992)
- Week 36: Into the 21st Century (1992 - Present)
Participants
Chuckhotdogs (discuss • contribs) 18:59, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
Sign up below if interested. List your name below to enroll in the United States History course. Having created a Wikveristiy account and being logged into it, add
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to the end of the list of names below when you edit this section (copy the wikitext above first!), and your name and the date will be added automatically.
- Selenacoul 20:11, 19 June 2011
- Johnsonville 20:00, 20 June 2011
- WendyB 22:31, 24 June 2011
- Aimejl 05:22, 05 July 2011
- David Bodart 10:09, 17 July 2011
- Angela Alexander 21:10, 30 July 2011
- Victoria Butler 17:14, 01 December 2011
- Snow Chao 16:40, 07 Dec 2011
- Holly19810 17:02, 14 April 2012
- maureen09
- CatapultSmith 11:11, 06 June 2012
- luceejacksister 20:11, 26 December 2012
- Ryan Smith 17:56, 29 September 2012
- Aditya Sharma 21:34, 16 January 2013
- Marlee Smith 00:15 18 January 2013
- 3volution00 17:18 7 February 2013
- Camman 15:30 28 March 2013
- T shipp1 17:00, 26 September 2013
- Ratangain 21:51, 26 September 2013
- jasminewang911 16:52 23 October 2013
- Ladykisa 13:06, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
- Cherrelle (discuss • contribs) 22:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
- Guymillion (discuss • contribs) 20:32, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
- LetsGoBlackhawks (discuss • contribs) 12:25, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
See also
External links
Template:History resources