American History Outline

Lecture One:

* 1 What Students Find Challenging About History
* 2 The Key to Mastering History
* 3 Periods in American History
* 4 Why America?
* 5 Organizing History
* 6 Pre-Columbian Period
* 7 Exploration (Columbian Period)
* 8 New Spain
* 9 New France
* 10 English Settlements
* 11 The Colonies
* 12 Economic System
* 13 Other immigrants
* 14 A Word About College Board Exams

Lecture Two:

* 1 Test-taking tips
* 2 Colonial History
* 3 The Salem Witch Trials
* 4 Salutary Neglect
* 5 The Zenger Trial
* 6 1730-1740: The Great Awakening
* 7 Migration and Conflict
* 8 George Washington
* 9 French and Indian War
* 10 King George III, and Debts
* 11 Tension Grows
* 12 Conflict Increases
* 13 Violence Begins
* 14 Causes of the Revolutionary War
* 15 The Revolutionary War

Lecture Three:

* 1 Review
* 2 State Constitutions
* 3 The "Founding Fathers"
* 4 The Articles of Confederation
* 5 The Constitutional Convention
* 6 George Washington's Presidency
* 7 The Supreme Court
* 8 The Two-Party System
* 9 The Presidency of John Adams

Lecture Four:

* 1 Tariffs
* 2 District of Columbia
* 3 Revolution of 1800
* 4 Jefferson Administration
* 5 The Marshall Court
* 6 The War of 1812 and Madison's Presidency
* 7 The Conservative President: James Monroe
* 8 The Election of 1814, also the Steamboat
* 9 Jacksonian Democracy
* 10 Whig Party
* 11 Slavery 1800-1840
* 12 Other Developments 1800-1840

Lecture Five:

* 1 The "Accidental Presidency"
* 2 The Alamo
* 3 1840s: Social Movements, Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
* 4 James K. Polk and War with Mexico
* 5 Taylor, Fillmore and the Compromise of 1850
* 6 President Franklin Pierce and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
* 7 "Bleeding Kansas"
* 8 Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln: Irreconcilably Different
* 9 The Debate over Slavery
* 10 James Buchanan
* 11 The Election of 1860
* 12 The North and South: Strengths and Weaknesses
* 13 Antebellum (pre-Civil War) State Admissions

Lecture Six:

* 1 Secession
* 2 Civil War - 1861-1861
* 3 The Trent Affair
* 4 Civil War - 1863-1865
* 5 Surrender
* 6 President Andrew Johnson
* 7 Reconstruction
* 8 Other Happenings During the Civil War and Reconstruction Periods
* 9 Grant Administration

Lecture Seven:

* 1 Yankee Ingenuity
* 2 The Election of 1880
* 3 The Grange Movement
* 4 Big Business and Big Oil
* 5 The "Gilded Age"
* 6 Bimetallism
* 7 Unions and Immigrant Workers
* 8 Indians and the Frontier
* 9 Tariffs and an Income Tax
* 10 The Conservative Democrat
* 11 Preparing for the "Turn of the Century"

Lecture Eight: Review for the Midterm Exam.

Midterm Exam.

Lecture Nine:

* 1 Election of 1896
* 2 Imperialism
* 3 Spanish-American War
* 4 More Imperialism
* 5 Progressive Movement

Lecture Ten:

* 1 Teddy Roosevelt
* 2 Social trends and Court decisions
* 3 1909 to 1914
* 4 World War I
* 5 Post-World War I
* 6 Social Darwinism
* 7 Scopes Trial

Lecture Eleven:

* 1 The Roaring Twenties
* 2 The Great Depression
* 3 FDR, the New Deal, and Preparing for War
* 4 World War II
* 5 Cold War
* 6 Communist Infiltration
* 7 United Nations
* 8 Immigration

Lecture Twelve:

* 1 The Cold War (continued from last lecture)
* 2 The 80th Congress
* 3 The Korean War
* 4 Post World War II Culture
* 5 The Warren Court
* 6 Civil Rights
* 7 The "Great Society"
* 8 The Vietnam War
* 9 ERA and Abortion

Lecture Thirteen:

* 1 The 1970s
* 2 President Ronald Reagan
* 3 Gulf War
* 4 Clarence Thomas
* 5 Bill Clinton
* 6 21st Century
* 7 The Supreme Court
* 8 A Very Brief History of America
* 9 Review for Final Exam

Final Exam.