I. General Information

1. Course Title:
United States History to 1865

2. Course Prefix & Number:
HIST 1472

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 3

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

This course will acquaint students with the basic chronological narrative and themes of America's past from native North America through the Civil War. Social, political, economic and cultural developments will be covered.  A multi-cultural perspective will be incorporated into the course; taking into account those Americans denied access to positions of political and economic power in the past. Analytical skills focusing on reading, writing and use of primary documents will be emphasized.

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

Reading College Level CLC or Reading College Level

Score:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:

St. Cloud State University, HIST 140 U.S. History to 1865, 3 credits
Bemidji State University, HST 1114 U.S. History to 1877, 3 credits

III. Course Purpose

2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:

• Goal 5 – History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Goal 7 – Human Diversity

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate written communication skills	Successfully complete written homework assignments, written papers and essay exam questions.
Demonstrate reading and listening skills	Successfully complete objective and essay exam questions based on assigned reading and class lectures.
Discuss/compare characteristics of diverse cultures and environments	Demonstrate an understanding of the multi-cultural perspective of U.S. history , including African-American, American Indian, women, and other groups typically excluded from power.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Demonstrate a broad understanding of U.S. History from pre-contact through the Civil War Era. MnTC Goal 5
• Make use of historical thinking. MnTC Goal 5
• Analyze historical sources, distinguishing primary from secondary sources. MnTC Goal 5
• Communicate effectively using historical evidence and methods. MnTC Goal 5
• Analyze and understand the diversity of peoples within their distinctive historical contexts. MnTC Goal 7
• Describe and discuss the experience and contributions of many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion including African-Americans and Native-Americans. MnTC Goal 7
• Demonstrate an understanding of the development of and the changing nature of group identities in United States history and cultures. MnTC Goal 7
• Employ the methods and data that historians and social and behavioral scientists use to investigate the human condition. MnTC Goal 5
• Develop historical explanations for contemporary social issues. MnTC Goal 5

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1.         Colonial America

• Native Americans before Columbus
• European Expansion
• Contact
• Spanish, French and Dutch Exploration

2.         Beginnings of English Colonies 1607-1660

• Chesapeake society
• New England society
• Indian-White Relations
• Religious tensions

3.         Colonial Society

• English expansion
• Origins of American Slavery
• Growing ethnic and religious diversity
• Social classes in the English colonies
• Regional differences

4.         Struggle for Empire

• Expansion of slavery, slave culture and slave resistance
• The Great Awakening
• British/French rivalry and the Seven Years War

5.         The American Revolution

• Consequences of the Seven Years War/ escalating crisis
• Outbreak of war and military conflict
• Changes within American society: democratization, religious toleration, role of women
• The revolution and slavery
• The revolution and American Indians

6.         Creating a Nation

• Articles of Confederation
• Land and the West
• New Constitution, Bill of Rights
• Slavery and Indians in the new republic

7.         The Early Republic

• Politics/French Revolution
• Adams Presidency and the emergence of political parties
• Revolution of “1800”
• Jefferson, the West and American Indians’
• War of 1812

8.         The Market Revolution

• Transportation
• Westward movement
• Cotton kingdom
• Immigration/Nativism
• Labor, Women and industrialization

9.         Democracy

• Growth of political democracy
• Jackson Presidency
• Indian removal
• Economic nationalism: Bank War, American system, economic panics

10.       Slavery and the Old South

• Old South
• Life under slavery
• Slave Culture and resistance

11.       Age of Reform

• Utopian communities
• Crusade against slavery
  • Anti-slavery
  • Abolitionism
  • Origins of Feminism

12.       The Union in Peril

• Westward Expansion
• War with Mexico
• Slavery in the territories
• Rise of the Republican Party
• Emergence of Lincoln
• Secession movement

13.       Civil War

• First Modern War
• Emancipation
• Transformation on government and society
• Confederacy
• Military conduct and victory for the North