United States History II

FALL 2010

AUGUST 25^th Introduction to Class

The End of the Civil War

SEPTEMBER 1^st Chapter 15

[Lincoln’s Plan, Johnson’s Plan, Radical Republican’s Plan and What really happen]

SEPTEMBER 8^th Chapter 15 - Continued

[Life in the South for the former slaves, the “common whites” and the plantation owners during Reconstruction; The Compromise of 1876]

End of material for EXAM ONE - (End of the Civil War, Chapters 15)

SEPTEMBER 15^th Chapter 16

[Special Lecture – The Economy]

SEPTEMBER 22^nd EXAM ONE DUE

Chapter 17

[Horizontal and Vertical Monopolies, booms and busts, gold and silver, bank]

SEPTEMBER 29^th Chapter 18

[Life for the wealth/life for the poor immigrants, labor unions, Culture, entertainment, and the “strenuous life” in the North and the South Life in the West - the Grange and the Populists election of 1892]

End of the material for EXAM TWO (Chapters 16, 17, and 18)

OCTOBER 6^th Chapter 19 and 20

[The Guild Age Presidents, the “Billion Dollar Congress”, Big city bosses and the bust of the 1890’s]

OCTOBER 13^th NO CLASS

OCTOBER 20^th Chapter 21ßLONG NIGHT

[Election 1896, Imperialism The “Open Door Notes”, The Spanish – American War]

EXAM TWO DUE

OCTOBER 27^th NO CLASS

NOVEMBER 3^rd Chapter 21

[Teddy Roosevelt and the rise of Japan, The Reform of Teddy Roosevelt, the “End” of the Republicans]

NOVEMBER 10^th Chapter 22

Chapter 23

[Woodrow Wilson, Problems with Democrats in control, World War I Peace Without Victory” and Article X”]

NOVMBER 17^th Chapter 24 ß LONG NIGHT

[The Roaring Twenties, The plight of the farmer, the German war debt, Japan and the treaties, and the “beginning of the end” Hoover, the “big mistake”]

End of the material for EXAM THREE (Chapters 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24)

NOVEMBER 24^th NO CLASS

DECEMBER 1^st EXAM THREE DUE

Chapter 25, 26 and 27

[FDR, 1932, Pearl Harbor, WWII and Truman, ]

DECEMBER 8^th Chapter 28

[the atomic bomb, the “Marshall Plan”, Russia vs the USA]

DECMBER 15^th Chapter 29

US DOMESTIC POLICY

End of material for Exam Four

DECEMBER 18^th EXAM FOUR DUE