American Pageant, Reading Assignments & IDs

Date Reading IDs

UNIT 3
10/15 272-280 Election of 1836, “Little Magician”, panic of 1837, Texas, Independence for Texas, Texican
10/16* 280-286 “Old Tippecanoe”, 1840 politics, two party system, Jacksonian Democracy
10/18 287-293 move westward, “ecological imperialism”, march of millions, Emerald Isle
10/19* 293-301 German 48ers, Irish, nativist, mechanization, Eli Whitney
10/23 302-311 manufacturing, “wage slaves”, women & the economy, western farmers, highways & steamboats
10/24 311-319 “Clinton’s Big Ditch”, iron horse, clippers/pony riders/cables, transport binds country, market revolution
10/25 320-329 2nd Great Awakening, religious diversity, desert Zion, free schools, higher learning, age of reform
10/26* 329-339 “Old Deluder”, suffragists, Oneida community, scientific achievement, artistic achievement
10/29 340-348 national literature, transcendentalism, Whitman, Poe & Melville, American history
10/30* 348-357 “King Cotton”, “cottonocracy”, slave system, white majority, free blacks
11/1 357-364 plantation slavery, slave life, “peculiar institution”, early abolitionism
11/2* 364-370 radical abolitionism, southern whites fight back, free soilers
11/5 371-375 “Tyler Too”, President Tyler, war of words with Britain, Maine, Lone Star
11/6* 375-382 “Texas or Disunion”, Oregon, Manifest Destiny, “Young Hickory”, Mexico
11/7 382-389 American blood or soil?, “Old Rough and Ready”, peace with Mexico, Profit & Loss, Californios
11/8
REVIEW
11/9
REVIEW
11/13
REVIEW
11/15 390-397 popular sovereignty, President Taylor, “gold fever”, Underground Railroad, Clay & Calhoun
11/16 397-403 Seward, Compromise of 1850, “Bloodhound Bill”, Whigs, expansionist stirrings
11/19 403-408 Asia, Gadsden Purchase, Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act
UNIT 4
11/20 409-416 Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Bleeding Kansas, John Brown, “Bully” Brooks, “Old Buck” v. “The Pathfinder”
11/26 417-425 election of 1856, Dred Scott, financial crash 1857, Lincoln, Great Debate, Murderer or Martyr?
11/27 425-433 Democratic divisions, rail-splitter, election of 1860, secession, Crittenden
11/28* 434-443 dis-United States, Fort Sumter, Border/Brother Blood, balance of forces, Billy Yank or Johnny Reb
     
     
11/29 443-447 King Wheat & King Corn, the Trent & the Alabama, foreign flare-ups, President Davis v. President Lincoln
11/30 447-452 wartime liberties, volunteer or draftee, economic stress of war, economic boom, Cotton Kingdom No More
12/3 453-462 “Ninety-day War”, Peninsula Campaign, war at sea, Antietam, Emancipation Proclamation
12/4 462-469 “Remember Fort Pillow”, Lee’s last lunge, Gettysburg Address, war in the west, “Sherman the Brute”
12/5 469-478 Copperheads, election of 1864, Wilderness Campaign, assassination, aftermath of war
     
12/6 479-487 problems of peace, freedmen, Freedmen’s Bureau, President Johnson, presidential reconstruction, Black Codes
12/7* 488-493 congressional reconstruction, “Sir Veto”, “ten percent” governments, Thaddeus Stevens, military reconstruction, no women voters
12/10 493-501 radical reconstruction, Ku Klux Klan, impeachment for Johnson, Not-Guilty, Alaska, heritage of reconstruction
12/11 Review Study Guides
12/12 Review “
12/13* Review FOR FINALS!!!!!!
12/14 Review FOR FINALS!!!!!!
     
     

*Designates IN CLASS AP days.

PS = Primary Source Reading