Extra Credit
Posted by Mark Tebeau in Uncategorized on December 3rd, 2009
You may hand in a powerpoint, with images and text (and/or other primary source materials) for extra credit, worth 1 to 5 points. In order to receive extra credit, you must include, either at the end of the powerpoint, or in a related word file, a bibliography that includes the sources from where you pulled [...]
November 4: Women Demand Rights
Posted by Mark Tebeau in Uncategorized on November 6th, 2009
For us to read, during class and compare with a wordl of the Declaration of Sentiments.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, two American activists in the movement to abolish slavery called together the first conference to address Women’s rights and issues in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Part of the [...]
November 2: Social Reform & Politics
Posted by Mark Tebeau in Uncategorized on October 30th, 2009
Politics changed at the national level during the Jacksonian era, and local politics also changed, shifting away from smaller-scale town hall formats toward elected representation.
Why did these changes occur? What were the implications of those changes for the developing United States?
Also, tell me about the shifts of political parties from the 1790s through the 1860s. [...]
October 26, 28, & 30: Slave Life
Posted by Mark Tebeau in Uncategorized on October 25th, 2009
This week, we will focus on the history and expansion of slavery.
Reading the course text, as well as The Underground Railroad, develop a list of 10 dates, names, and events that accompanied the transformation of slavery from the mid-eighteenth century through 1860.
Additionally, I would like you to consider what life was like on a plantation, [...]
October 21: Cities & Urban Life
Posted by Mark Tebeau in Uncategorized on October 14th, 2009
Review the above three images; answer the following questions.
1. When was the period of greatest immigration, prior to the Civil War?
2. Which groups came during this period?
3. Why did these immigrants comes to the United States? What conditions did they find?
You may answer the above questions in the blog post prior to class.
Also, prior to [...]
October 14: Workers & Slaves
Posted by Mark Tebeau in Uncategorized on October 10th, 2009
Taken from: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/index.html
**NOTE** The essay is available in the link listed above. I redid it to make it easier for you. *** (2:45PM 10-13-2009) Print and read the essay by Thomas Dublin, WOMEN, WORK, AND PROTEST IN THE EARLY LOWELL MILLS: “THE OPPRESSING HAND OF AVARICE WOULD ENSLAVE US,” Labor History 16 (1975). 99-116.
Answer the [...]
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