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Quarter 1 : Disunion/Civil War/Reconstruction

Quarter 1 - Week 1 - 08/12/19-08/16/19
Introductions/Distribution of Class Syllabus and Laptop Usage Forms
Weekly Theme: The Economics of Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery
Weekly PowerPoint: The South and Slavery

Quarter 1 - Week 2 - 08/19/19-08/23/19
Weekly Theme: Southern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Southern Defense of Slavery
Weekly PowerPoint: Renewing the Sectional Struggle
Class Mini-Presentations on Three Main "Justifications" for Slavery
Quiz 1.1 Study Guide
Quiz 1.1

Quarter 1 - Week 3 - 08/26/19-08/30/19
Weekly Theme: Northern Views on Slavery
Weekly Reading: Slavery in New Jersey
No Weekly PowerPoint: Class Presentations on Abolitionist Leaders
Abolitionist Leaders
Test 1.1 Study Guide
Test 1.1

Quarter 1 - Week 4 - 09/02/19-09/06/19
Weekly Theme: The Road to Secession
Weekly Readings: Bleeding Kansas/Charles Sumner
                                  The Martyrdom of John Brown
Weekly PowerPoint: Drifting Toward Disunion

Quarter 1 - Week 5 - 09/09/19-09/13/19
Weekly Theme:  The Republican Party and Lincoln
Weekly Reading: Lincoln's Election (1860)
Weekly PowerPoint: Girding for War-The North and South
Quiz 2.1

Quarter 1 - Week 6 - 09/16/19-09/20/19
Weekly Theme: Rebel Yells
Ken Burns "The Civil War: Episode 1" with Viewing Guide
Test 2.1

Quarter 1 - Week 7 - 09/23/19-09/27/19
Weekly Theme: Northern Offense and Total War
Weekly PowerPoint: The Furnace of Civil War

Quarter 1 - Week 8 - 09/30/19-10/04/19
Weekly Theme: Dichotomous Plans of Reconstruction
Weekly PowerPoint: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Quiz 3.1

Quarter 1 - Week 9 - 10/07/19-10/11/19
Weekly Theme: Southern Resistance to Reconstruction
No Weekly PowerPoint: Literacy Test
Test 3.1

Quarter 2: Gilded Age/Urbanization and Westward Migration

Quarter 3: The U.S. on the World Stage

Quarter 4: Desegregation/Communism/Post-Cold War