Introduction to American History Volume 2. BVT Publishing. Brian Farmer

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1 Prof. Alvizo- Arrieta Office: ArtB320 Office Hrs: T.B.A.. History 102 United States History from 1877 to the Present Course Description This course is a chronological survey of American history from 1877 to the present, focusing on American social, intellectual, political, economic, and diplomatic institutions. Major topics include culture, ethnic and racial diversity and the role of the United States within the context of world history. Course Text: Introduction to American History Volume 2. BVT Publishing. Brian Farmer Handouts Course Measurements: 10 Summaries (10pts each summary) 100pts 2 Quizzes (50pts each quiz) 100pts 4 Video Responses (20pts each response) 100pts Final exam Total Points: 100pts 500pts Grade Scale: A= , B= , C= , D= , F= Please Note: Excessive absences will result in a lower grade. Three tardies constitute one absence. Students dropped by the instructor will not be reinstated. Your success also depends on your ability to complete your required reading assignments, historical/ community research projects, as well as the quizzes and final. No incomplete grade is given except under extenuating circumstances. No Cell-phones, (NO TEXTING IN CLASS) Ipod s or other instruments (such as laptops), which may disrupt lectures, are forbidden in the classroom. Please refer to the College s student code of conduct printed in your semester schedule of classes.

2 Course Objectives: 1. Describe and assess the process by which the United States was economically transformed and modernized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 2. Evaluate major American political, religious, and cultural values for the 1877 to 1914 period. 3. Compare and contrast the changing demography of America from 1877 to 1914 and from 1945 to the present. 4. Determine the processes of assimilation and acculturation expected of immigrants to the United States from 1900 to the present. 5. Discuss and evaluate the interaction of majority and minority groups during the 20th century. 6. Identify and analyze the causation, sequence of events, concepts, development, and impact of various American political reform movements, such as Populism, Progressivism, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, Civil Rights, and the Great Society. 7. Conceptualize and discuss the meaning of conservatism, liberalism, and radicalism in American history from the post-world War II era to the present. 8. Discuss the evolution of gender roles and evaluate the efforts and impact of feminists in the United States from 1877 through the contemporary period. 9. Summarize and analyze the development of American foreign policy since 1890, including imperial expansion and the rise of the United States as a world power and leader among a large community of nations. 10. Trace and evaluate United States diplomacy and armed conflict through isolationism, imperialism, and collective security policies of the 20th century. 11. Compare and contrast the core political and philosophical ideas and modes of expression in American culture in the 20th century. Student Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of United States History 1877 to the present, students will be able to develop and persuasively argue a historical thesis in a written assignment that identifies and explains major social, economic, political and/or cultural historical themes or patterns in United States history from 1877 to the present and apply appropriate historical methods to analyze and use primary and/or secondary sources as evidence to support the thesis. ADA Statement: El Camino College is committed to providing educational accommodations for students with disabilities upon the timely request by the student to the instructor. A student with a disability, who would like to request an academic accommodation, is responsible for identifying herself/himself to the instructor and to the Special Resources Center. To make arrangements for academic accommodations, contact the Special Resources Center.

3 Week 1 Introduction to Course and Historical Foundations Workshop: How to Summarize Primary and Secondary Sources What is Freedom? Reconstruction, Jim Crow in the South Group Activity: Reconstruction Plans 1 st Cooperative Learning Community: Group #1 Former slave seeks to reunite their families. Advertisements from the Christian recorder, Group #2 Black Codes enacted in the South. Mississippi black codes, November 1865 Group # 3 Klan Violence against Blacks. Elias Hill, testimony before Congressional committee investigating the Ku Klux Klan, 1871 Group # 4 Reconstruction by Frederick Douglas (Handout) 1 st Primary Source: Strange Fruit by Billy Holiday (Song) Poll Tax; Birmingham, Alabama 1896 (Document) Violence at the Polls (Image) Read: Ch. 15, Emancipation and Reconstruction Week 2 Western Expansion The Great Plains Indians (Clash between Americans and Natives) Southern Revitalization Farmers and the Populist movement 2 nd Cooperative Learning Community: Wizard of Oz and Populism 2 nd Primary source: Texas Rangers on the Mexican Border N.A. Jennings, A Texas Ranger, 1875

4 Week 3 Industry and Labor American s Gilded Age Big Business Emerges & Workers of the Nation unite The Expansion of American industry Read: Ch. 16, The Age of Big Business 1 st Summary: The Anatomy of Prejudice: Origins of the Robber Baron Legend by John Tipple. The Business History Review, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Winter,1959), pp rd Primary source: Group# 1 Jay Gould on Capital And Labor. Testimony before the U.S. Senate, 1883 Group# 2 Henry Demarest Lloyd Attacks Monopolies. Wealth against Commonwealth, 1894 Group# 3 Andrew Carnegie explains the Gospel of Wealth. Wealth, 1889 Group #4 Henry George explains why poverty is a crime. An analysis of the Crime of Poverty, 1885 Week 4 American Imperialism Spanish American War & America continues its Expansion 4 th Primary Source: Group# 1 Note of United States to Spain, September 23, Source: U.S. Department of State, Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1898 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1901), pp Group# 2 Emilio Aguinaldo criticizes American imperialism in the Philippines. Case against the United States, 1899 Read: Ch. 17, Life in the Gilded Age Week 5 The Progressive Era, Immigration at the turn of the Century Ellis Island, Culture Clash &Urbanization

5 3 rd Cooperative Learning Community: I will assign the images and readings for this week. (Oral History & Visual Media) Ellis Island Cultural and Social Experiences in American Read: Ch. 18, The Politics of Conservatism and Dissent, Ch. 19, Society and Culture in the Progressive Era Quiz #1 (Reconstruction to American Imperialism: Course text) Week 6 World War I Treaty of Versailles 5 th Primary Source: Group# 1 President Woodrow Wilson asks congress for a declaration of war. Speech to Congress, April 2, 1917 Group#2 A Doughboy s letter from the front. Anonymous Soldiers, Letter to Elmer J. Sutter, 1918 Group# 3 Wilson s speech, list examples of how President Wilson exclaims that we would be fighting to make the World Safe for Democracy. 4 th Cooperative Learning Community: WWI Posters (Images) I will assign images. Read & Discussion: Sargent Alvin York: Great Hero of the Great War Read: Ch. 20, The Forging of Modern Government, Ch. 21, The Rise of American as a World Power Week 7 The Twenties: Prohibition era Harding Administration & Prosperity of the 20s (Nativism Resurges) 2 nd Summary: Temperance Movements And Prohibition by Holland Webb. International Social Science Review, Vol. 74, No. 1/2 (1999), pp Read: Ch. 22, America and the Great War, Ch. 23, Prosperity and Depression 1 st Video: Prohibition

6 Week 8 The Great Depression, Devastation and Reaction. New Deal & Repatriation 5 th Cooperative Learning Community: Great Depression (I will assign the Images), "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," lyrics by Yip Harburg, music by Jay Gorney (Song) 6 th Primary Source Analysis: Group# 1 The New deal speech by F.D. Roosevelt (Speech) Group# 2 Conservatives criticize the New Deal. Group# 3 Herbert Hoover, Anti- New deal campaign speech, 1936 Group# 4 Minnie Hardin, Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 14, 1937 Read: Ch. 24, The Jazz Age and Beyond, Ch. 25, The Great Depression Quiz #2 (Progressive Era to New Deal) Week 9 Background to WWII (The Rise of Hitler) The U.S. enters the war (D- Day & the War in the Pacific) Dropping the Bomb Cooperative Learning Community: WWII discussion Primary Source: Franklin d. Roosevelt on the Four Freedoms (Speech) Soldiers send message home Sergeant Irving Strobing, Radio address from Corregidor, Philippines, May 5 or 6, 1942 John Conroy, Letter, December 24, 1942 Allen Spach, Letter, February 1943 James McMahon, Letter, March 10, 1944 David Mark Olds, Letter, July 12, 1945

7 Read: The Atomic Bomb by Edwin Borchard. The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Jan., 1946), pp Read: Ch. 26, World War II Week 10 War on the Home front Racial Tensions, Riots and Women s Impact on the War Primary Source The War between the sexes. Willard Waller, The Coming war on Women, 1945 Read: Ch. 27, The Price of Power Read: Los Angeles Zoot: Race "Riot," the Pachuco, and Black Music Culture by Douglas Henry Daniels. The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Spring, 1997), pp ( Video: Miracle at Saint Anna by Spike Lee Week 11 U.S. and Cold War Domestic Changes in the 1950s Primary Source: The Truman Doctrine 1947, (Document) Senator Joseph McCarthy Hunts Communist. Speech delivered in Wheeling, west Virginia, February 9, 1950 Read: U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, by Nancy E. Bernhard. Alan Nadel. The Business History Review, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp Read: Ch. 28, The Culture of Power Era Week 12 An Affluent Society, s Popular Culture & the Atomic age

8 Primary Source: Edith M. Stern attacks the domestic bondage of women. Women are household slaves, 1949 Vance Packard analyze the age of affluence. The status seekers, 1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns about the military industrial complex. Farewell address, January 1961 Mother's Little Helper (Jagger/Richards) (Song) Read: Televising Film Stardom in the 1950s. by Christine Becker. The Journal of Cinema and Media, Vol. 46, No. 2 (FALL 2005), pp Read: Ch. 29, The Price of Power Week 13 The Sixties (The Vietnam Conflict & its End) Civil Rights movements (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow Power & other Social Movements) Primary Source Martin Luther, King Jr. explains nonviolent resistcance. Letter from Birmingham city jail, 1963 Malcolm X, Be Any Means Necessary (Speech) Equal rights for women. National organization for women, statement of Purpose, October 29, 1966 Video: Road to Memphis Read: Ch. 30, Culture Shift Week 14 Triumph of Conservatism, The Radical civil rights (Women s liberation movement & Woodstock) The Watergate Scandal Primary source: An American soldier in Vietnam. Arthur E. Woodley Jr. Oral history of a Special Forces ranger A Vietcong guerrilla describes tunnel warfare. Tran Thi Gung, Interview, ca. 1998

9 Read: "What Can a Hippie Contribute to our Community?" Culture Wars, Moral Panics, and The Woodstock Festival by Ronald Helfrich. New York History, Vol. 91, No. 3 (SUMMER 2010), pp Week 15 Globalization Ronald Reagan & the End of the Cold War Primary Source: Ronald Reagan, Evil Empire March 8, 1983, (Speech) Video: Roger and Me Read: Ch. 31, Reagan s America, Ch. 32, America at the turn of the Century Week 16 War on Terror (Bush Administration) Obama (Yes We Can), Looking into the 21st century Primary Source: A captured 9/11 terrorist confesses. Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Confession, 2007 G.W. Bush, War on Terror (Speech) Recap & Final Examination