Dates
Assignments and Activities
Week One: August 31-September 4, 2009
Monday
Introduction
Wednesday
Primary Source Assignment No. 1
Is the Past a Foreign Country?
Friday

Text Assignment No 1: Foner, ch. 1
Freedom Questions

Week Two: September 9 & 11, 2009
 
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 2: Foner, ch. 2
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 2
European Visions of the New World
Week Three: 14-18, 2009
 
Monday
Diversity and Freedom in the New America
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 3 : Foner, ch. 3
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 3
Europeans in the New World
Week Four: September 21-25, 2009
 
Monday
The Atlantic World
Wednesday

Text Assignment No.4: Foner, ch. 4
Freedom Questions

Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 4
Parallel Worlds:
Slave and Slave Owner
Week Five: September 28 - October 2, 2009
 
Monday
The Declaration of Independence
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 5: Foner, ch. 5
Freedom Questions
Friday

Primary Source Assignment No. 5
Parallel Worlds: Patriot and Loyalist
Post Exam Questions to Blackboard

Week Six: October 5-9, 2009
 
Monday
First Exam
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 6: Foner, ch. 6
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 6
Parallel Worlds: Women and Freedmen
Week Seven: October 12-16, 2009
 
Monday
Institutionalizing Freedom: Constitutions and Liberty
Wednesday

Text Assignment No. 7: Foner, ch. 7
Freedom Questions

Friday

Primary Source Assignment No. 7
On Human Nature

Week Eight: October 19-23, 2009
 
Monday
Political Parties in the New Nation
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 8: Foner, ch. 8
Freedom Questions
Friday

Primary Source Assignment No. 8
George Washington's Legacy

Week Nine: October 26-30, 2009
 
Monday
No Guts, No Glory: Economic Development in Antebellum America
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 9: Foner, ch. 9
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 9
Individual Freedom
Week Ten: November 2 - 6, 2009
 
Monday
Jacksonian America
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 10: Foner, ch. 10
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 10
Liberty and Power

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Week Eleven: November 9-13, 2009
 
Monday
Second Exam
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 11: Foner, ch. 11
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 11
Slavery
Week Twelve: November 16 - 20, 2009
 
Monday
Antebellum Reform
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 12: Foner, ch. 12
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 12
Reform
Week Thirteen: November 23 -25, 2009
 
Monday
Text Assignment No. 13: Foner, ch. 13
Freedom Questions
Wednesday
Primary Source Assignment No. 13
Freedom in Crisis
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Week Fourteen: November 30 - December 4, 2009
 
Monday
The Election of 1860
Wednesday
Text Assignment No. 14: Foner, ch. 14
Freedom Questions
Friday
Primary Source Assignment No. 14
Freedom Challenged and Redefined
Week Fifteen: December 7 - 9, 2009
 
Monday
Text Assignment No. 15: Foner, ch. 15
Freedom Questions
Wednesday
Examination Review
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