United States History II

SPRING 2011

JANUARY 18^th Introduction to Class

The End of the Civil War

JANUARY 25^th Chapter 15

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

FEBRUARY 1^st 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)

FEBRUARY 8^th NO CLASS

FEBRUARY 15^th Chapter 16

[Special Lecture – The Economy]

FEBRUARY 22^nd EXAM ONE DUE

Chapter 17

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

MARCH 1^st 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]

MARCH 8^th Life in the West - the Grange and the Populists election of 1892]

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

MARCH 15^th Chapter 19 and 20

[National Scandal, the presidents, the “Billion Dollar Congress”, Big city bosses and the bust of the 1890’s]

MARCH 22^nd NO CLASS – SPING BREAK

MARCH 29^th Finish Chapter 20

Chapter 21

[Imperialism, the “Open Door Notes”, The Spanish - American War, Teddy Roosevelt, and the rise of Japan]

EXAM TWO DUE

APRIL 5^th Chapter 22

Chapter 23

[Reform, “The End” of the Republicans, “]

APRIL 12^th “Peace Without Victory” and Article X”, The Roaring Twenties]

APRIL 19^th Chapter 24

[The plight of the farmer, the German war debt, Japan and the treaties, and the “beginning of the end”]

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

APRIL 26^th EXAM THREE DUE

Chapter 28

[Truman, the “Marshall Plan”, Russia vs the USA]

MAY 3^rd Chapter 25, 26 and 27

[Hoover, the “big mistake”, FDR, 1932, Pearl Harbor, WWII and the atomic bomb]

MAY 10^th Europe and the world – US DOMESTIC POLICY

Chapter 29

End of material for Exam Four

MAY 13^th EXAM FOUR DUE