Below are the course readings in the three texts (abbreviations in parenthesis), mini-lecture topics for selection, dates for the different discussion groups

The Making of the American Republic                                                (MAR)

Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution                     (MP)

Representative Americans: The Revolutionary Generation                (RA)

1/13: Introduction

1/16: Colonies in the British Empire

Mini-Lecture sign up

Event Drama sign up

Colony/state selection 

Week 2, 1/23 & 27: Impact of Seven Years War

MAR chp 1                

MP chp 2 (#1, 2 & essay 1)
MP chp 3 (#3, 4 & essay 1, 2)

Week 3, 1/30 & 2/3: The Revolution Within & Glimpses of Unity

MP chp 4 (#1, 3, 5, 7, 9 & essay 2)

MP chp 5 (#1, 3, 4, 7 & essay 2)

RA chp 2 – Samuel Adams

1/30:    First States Demographic Report Due

2/3: Albany Plan of Union, Sons and Daughters of Liberty, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Committees of Correspondence, Sam Adams 

Week 4, 2/6 & 10: A multi-color republic Native & African Americans

MAR chp 4

MP chp 7 (# 1, 2, 3, & essay 1)

MP chp 8 (#1, 2, 3, 5 & essay 2)

RA chp 12 – Benjamin Banneker

2/6: Moravian Missions, Little Turtle, Alexander McGillivray

2/10:  Pennsylvania Abolition Society, Anthony Benezet, Phyllis Wheatley

Week 5, 2/13 & 17: “A Separate Sphere” Women & Religion

MP chp 9 (# 1, 2, 3, & essay 1)

MP chp 10 (# 1, 2, 6, 8 & essay 2)

RA chp 5 – Abigail Adams

RA chp 10 – Isaac Backus

2/13: Abigail Adams, Judith Sargent Murray, Mary Woolstonecraft, Anne Bradstreet, Mercy Otis Warren

2/17:  First States Rev. Constitution Report Due

First Great Awakening, Rev. Ezra Stiles, Deism

Week 6, 2/20 & 24: The War Begins in the North: Declaring Independence

MAR chp 2                            

MP chp 6 (# 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 & essay 2)

RA chp 4 –Francis Marion

2/20: Event Drama #1 

2/24:  War in the North

Thomas Paine, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, Saratoga, Henry Knox, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Horatio Gates, Green Mountain Boys

Week 7, 2/27 & 3/3: War in the South &  War’s End & Loyalists

MP chp 7 (only pgs 229-237, 247-254)

2/27: Yorktown, Benedict Arnold, Admiral De Grasse, Nathaniel Greene

3/3: First States Rev. Constitution Report Due

Midterm Exam distributed

Event Drama #2

East Florida Rangers, Joseph Galloway

3/6: NO CLASS - Paper Research Day

3/9-13: Spring Vacation

Week 9, 3/17 & 20: "The Critical Period"

MAR chp 3                

MP chp 11 (#5, 6, 8 & essay 2)

RA chp 8 - Charles Willson Peale

3/17:    Science

Midterm DUE at start of class

Robert Morris, Shay’s Rebellion

3/20:    Poor Richard’s Almanack

Week 10, 3/24: Westward Expansion

MAR chp 8

MP chp 11 (#2, 3, 4, 7)

RA chp 15 – James Wilkinson

3/24:    Research Paper Topic Idea Due

Sign up for presentation date

Ohio Company, Northwest Ordinance, Old Northwest, State of Franklin,

Oliver Pollack

Week 11, 3/27 & 31: Constitutional Ratification

MP chp 12 (#4, 5 & essay 1)

3/27:      First States Western Lands Paper Due

Virginia Plan, James Madison, George Mason, Annapolis Convention, Anti-Federalists, Federalist Papers

3/31:      Constitutional Convention Activity

Week 12, 4/3 & 7: First Federal Congress & Bill of Rights

MAR chp 5

MP chp 13 (#2, 3 & essay 2)

4/7: First States Delegate Report Due

John Singleton Copley, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Judiciary Act, William Maclay

4/10: NO CLASS - Paper Research Day

Week 13, 4/14: Washington in office

MAR chp 7

4/14: Report on Public Credit, Whiskey Rebellion, Fisher Ames, Democratic-Republican Societies, Battle of Fallen Timbers

Week 14, 4/17 & 21: Decline of the Federalists

MAR chp 9

4/17:    Event Drama #3 - Lyon Griswold Fight

The Quasi War, Citizen Genet, Trial of Patrick Lyon

4/21:    International Diplomacy Activity

4/24: Election of 1800

MAR chp 6

4/24:    Event Drama #4 - XYZ Affair

Extra Credit Due

twelfth amendment, Aaron Burr

4/28: Research Presentations

5/1: Research Presentations

5/1: FINAL EXAM DUE at start of class

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