DIABLO VALLEY COLLEGE

 

 

HIST126-5555 SP07

History of the American West

 

Note: Online course

 

 

 

HIST-126 The American West - (SC) - 3 Units
Section Number: 5555

Click Here to Access Your Online Classroom
Recom: Eligibility for ENGL 122 or equivalent

Required Meeting: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 H107 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
For more information contact the instructor, M. Irwin

the_Irwinator@comcast.net

Office: F0 132

Hours: By appointment

 

GRADING

Cumulative Exam 1

50

points

381 - 292 points =  A

Cumulative Exam 2

60

points

291 - 271 points =  B

Cumulative Exam 3

69

points

270 - 250 points =  C  

Cumulative Exam 4

62

points

249 - 209 points =  D  

Week One Discussion Board 3 points

Essays

20

points

Essay Evaluations

12

points

 

Identification Quizzes

108

points

TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE

381

 

   

 

Page numbers refer to assigned text: Robert V. Hine & John Mack Faragher, The American West: A new interpretive history (Yale University Press, 2000). 

Recommended Readings are from Dee Garceau-Hagen, Portraits of Women in the American West (Routledge, 2005)

To read assigned documents, please follow links (below):

 

                    ONLINE SYLLABUS, DOCUMENTS, WEEKLY SCHEDULE

 

WEEK

DATE

THIS WEEK'S REQUIRED READINGS ("pp" refers to readings in the Hine and Faragher textbook)

ASSIGNMENTS

DUE DATES

1

Weds

1-17

MANDATORY CLASS MEETING TONIGHT, JANUARY 17, 2007 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Room H-107.

 

MANDATORY CLASS MEETING TONIGHT, JANUARY 17, 2007 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Room H-107

 

MANDATORY CLASS MEETING TONIGHT, JANUARY 17, 2007 from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in Room H-107

Wednesday January 17 to Friday January 19

pp 1-11 ; the Western Hemisphere ; Folsom points ; Paleo-Indian Cultures ; Native American "Culture Areas" ; Mound Builders ; Secota ; Southwestern Tribes ; Mimbres Bowls ; Petroglyphs ; A Chinook Tale

PowerPoint presentation: Lecture 1

pp 12-23 ; European Exploration ; Tainos ; the Spanish Empire ; Cortes ; La Malinche ; Codex Mendoza ; Sir Francis Drake Meets the Miwok

pp 23-38 ; Catholic Missionaries ; Berdache Disease ; Mestizaje ; Acoma Pueblo ; Catechism ; Cabeza de Vaca ; Ribault ; Coronado ; Onate ; Popé ; A Los Angeles Census ; A Decree on Seduction

Week 1 Discussion Board

 

ID EXAM 1, pp. 1-23. ID 1 is available on WEBCT now.

 

ID EXAM 2, pp. 23-38

Your Week 1 Discussion Board assignment is due by 11:00 a.m. Monday 1-22.

Friday 1-19

   

ID 2 will be available at 11:00 a.m. today. You must complete both ID 1 and ID2 by 11 a.m. Monday, 1-22. 

 

WEEK

DATE 

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

2

Monday January 22 to Friday January 26

pp 39-51 ;  Iroquois Women in Government ; New France ; René_Robert Cavalier de la Salle ; favorite trade goods ; Black Robes in New France ;

pp. 51-69 ; Roanoke ; Francis Drake ;  Carolina Algonquian Mother and Daughter, 1585 ; Powhatan territory ; Jamestown ;  Map of Virginia; Sky Blew Beads; Opechancanough ; Pocahantas ; Tobacco ; Nathaniel Bacon ; Chesapeake Expansion ; Powhatan today ; Massasoit ; Plymouth Plantation ; Miles Standish ; Roger Williams and the Narragansett ; Metacomet ; Massachusetts Bay Colony ; Mary Rowlandson ; Immigration ; Peter Minuit ; New Sweden ; Quakers ; the Walking Purchase 

pp. 71-82 ; European Claims, 1750 ; Queen Anne's War ; King George's War ; the French and Indian (Seven Year's) War ; MapScalping

pp. 82-95 ; the Six NationsParis Treaty, 1763 ; Map of English Colonies, 17th - 18th C ; Neolin ; Pontiac's Rebellion ; SmallpoxProclamation Line, 1763 ; British Indian Policy ; the Paxton Massacre ; Regulators ; Russian America ; Aleuts ; Sitka, 1805 ; Totems ;

pp. 95-99 ; the Spanish EmpireCalifornia Tribes ; Local Natives ; California Missions ; the Californios ; Russian California 

pp 100-104 ; Joseph BrandtGeorge Rogers Clark ; Gnadenhutten ; Battle of Blue Licks

 

PowerPoint presentation: Lecture 2

 

ID EXAM 3, pp. 38-57

 

ID EXAM 4, pp. 57-70

 

Weds 1-24

 

Essay #1 Discussion Board

Submit your Essay #1 Discussion Board to the WEBCT Essay 1 Discussion Board by 7:00 p.m. today

Fri 1-26

 

Essay Evaluation #1

Essay Evaluation #1 is due by 7 p.m. today, 1-26

 

ID 3 and ID 4 will be available on WEBCT at 11:00 a.m. today. You must complete them by 7:00 p.m. Monday, 1-29. 

 

WEEK

DATE 

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

3

Mon 1-29

CUMULATIVE EXAM 1 -- pp. 1 - 104 : multiple choice, 50 points

Next time you want to moan about how rough school is, consider this:

Today is the last day to ADD this course

and the last day to DROP this course and be eligible for a refund of fees.

CUMULATIVE EXAM 1  is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Wednesday, 1-31.

Monday January 29 to Friday February 2

pp. 104-116 ; Treaty of Fort Stanwix ; Confederation Congress ; Western Lands ; U.S. Indian Policy I ; Puritan settlement patterns ; Jefferson's Northwest ; Land Ordinance (1785) ; Metes and Bounds ; Ohio Company of Associates ; Yazoo Land Fraud ; Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

pp. 116-121 ; Kentucky ; the Legend of Daniel Boone ; Fort Detroit ; Spanish ClaimsIndian Intercourse Act (1790) ; Passamaquoddy lawsuit 

pp. 121-129 ; Little Turtle ; Ohio (Wabash) Confederacy ; Land Cessions ; Red Jacket and Cornplanter ; Tenskwatawa ; Tecumseh ; War of 1812 ; Battle sites ; Moraviantown ; Indian Land Cessions, 1795-1809 ; Land Sales 

ID EXAM 5 (pp. 104 to 118)

Multiple Choice Exam 2 (pp. 104-132)

 

 

Fri 2-2
 

 

Multiple Choice Exam 2 (pp. 104-132) is available today at 9:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday, March 5.

ID 5 is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday, Feb 5 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK

DATE 

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

 

4

Monday Feb 5 through Friday Feb 9

pp 129-131: Red Stick WarFort Mims Massacre ; Battle of Horsehoe Bend ; Sequoyah ; Cherokee Phoenix 

pp. 133-146 ; Louisiana Purchase ; Western Expansion and Indian Land Cessions to 1810 ; Smallpox ; Touissant Francois - Dominique L'Ouverture ; Sacagawea ; Plains Indians ; the North West Company ; HBC, 1821-1870

pp. 146-158 ; John Jacob AstorMarie DorionMadame Choteau ; William H. Ashley ; Jedediah Strong Smith ; Bent's Fort ; Kit Carson ; James Ohio Pattie ;

pp. 159-170 ; the Michigan frontier ; the Great American Desert ; Filibustering ; Stephen F. Austin ; Slave traders ; Black Texas ; Davy Crockett ; the Santa Fe Trail ;  Texians in conflict ; William Barret Travis ;

ID EXAM 6 (pp. 118 - 131)

ID EXAM 7 (pp. 133 - 158)

 

Weds 2-7

 

Essay #2 Discussion Board

 

Essay Evaluation #2

Essay #2 Discussion Board is due today at 7 p.m. today. Submit your essay to the WEBCT Essay 2 Discussion Board.

 

Essay Evaluation #2 is due by 7 p.m. Monday, 2-12.

 

ID 6 and ID 7 are available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete them by 7 p.m. Monday, Feb 12

Fri 2-9

Holiday – Lincoln’s Birthday - College Closed

 

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

  Monday Feb 12   Essay Evaluation #2 Essay Evaluation #2 is due by 7 p.m. today.

Multiple Choice Exam 3 (pp. 132-184) is available today at 9:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday, March 5.

5

Mon Feb 12 through Friday Feb 16

pp. 170-184 ; Texas Independence ; War with Mexico ; Georgia Gold Rush ; Indian Intercourse Act ; Indian Removal Act ; Elias Boudinot ; Trail of Tears ; Map ; Assassination ; Second Seminole War ; Adams-Onis Treaty ; Monroe DoctrineBlack Hawk War

pp. 184-189 ; Fort Ross; Marcus and Narcissa Whitman ; CayuseOregon Trail ; Mythic Trail ; Family ; Women on the Overland Trail ; the Flood  

pp. 189-194 ; John C. Fremont ; the Great PathfinderJoseph Smith ; Nauvoo ; Mormon Families ; the Mormon Trail and Map 

pp. 194-197; Missions in Alta California ; Mexican Independence ; Mexican L.A. ; California's Hispanic Elite ; John Sutter ; Fifty-Four or Fight!

Recommended Reading: "Rape Narratives" in Garceau-Hagen, pp. 37-62.

ID EXAM 8 (pp. 159-179)

 

Multiple Choice Exam 3 (pp. 132-184)

 

 

Fri 2-16

 

 

Today is the last day to DROP without a “W” appearing on your transcript

ID 8  is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Wednesday, 2-21.

 

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

6

Mon 2-19

Holiday – Washington’s Birthday

 

 

Monday Feb 19 through Friday Feb 23 

 

pp. 199-212 ; Missouri CompromiseDisputed Territory ; War with Mexico ; Monterey ; Bear Flag Revolt ; Mariano Vallejo ; Henry David Thoreau ; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

pp. 212-219 ; Joaquin Murrieta ; Texas Rangers ; Juan Cortina ; U.S., 1848 ; Military Presence on the Great Plains ;  Ft. Laramie [Northern Plains Indians] Treaty (1851) ; Fort Atkinson [Southern " " ] Treaty (183) ; Loss of Indian Lands

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

7

 

Monday Feb 26 to Friday March 2

pp. 219-223 ; Wilmot Proviso ; Missouri Compromise (1820) ;  Great Compromise (1850) ; Kansas-Nebraska Act ; Sack of Lawrence ; Bleeding Kansas ; John Brown ; Reorienting Trade ; Gadsen Purchase ; Secession ; Civil War in Indian Territory ; Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers 

pp. 223-232 ; Sharpshooters ; the Revolver ; Winchester Rifle ; Indian Resistance ; the Long Walk ; Sand Creek ; Buffalo Soldiers

 

 

 

Fri

3-2

 

Multiple Choice Exam 4 (pp. 184-233)

Multiple Choice Exam 4 (pp. 184-233) is available today 3-2 at 9:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7:00 p.m. Monday, March 5.

         

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

8

Monday March 5 to Friday March 9

pp. 234-247 ; New Helvetia ; Sutter's Mill ; the Rush ; Yerba BuenaMary Ballouplacer mining ; hydraulic mining ; anti-Mexican feeling ; Foreign Miner's License Tax (1852) ; Women in the Mines ; Chinese labor ; Anti-Chinese Violence ; People v. Hall ; Xin Jin's Contract ; a Bachelor Society ; Jewish pioneers 

pp. 247-251 ; Act for the Government and Protection of Indians (1850) ; Indian Miners ; California Indian Treaties (1851) ; Bounties ; California Genocide  

pp. 251-256 ; the Great Northern Pacific Railroad ; Buffalo ; Chief Powder Face (1869) ; George Armstrong Custer ; Western myth-making

Multiple Choice Exam 5 (pp. 234-256)

 

ID EXAM 9 ( pp. 234-251)

 

Friday 3-9

 

 

Multiple Choice Exam 5 (part of the exam formerly known as Cumulative Exam 3) is available at 11:00 a.m. today, Friday March 9. You must complete it by 7 p.m. on Monday April 30.

 

ID 9 is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday, March 12.

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

9

Monday March 12 to Friday March 16 

pp. 256-266 ; Seward's Icebox (1867) ; Eyak, Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples ; Juneau Gold Rush (1880) ; Yukon Gold Rush (1896) ;  the Comstock Lode (1859) ; Female Forty-Niners  

pp. 266-273 ; Mining Camp Law ; mining camp life ; the Hounds ; San Francisco Committees of Vigilance ; the Mining frontier ; Copper ; the Butte Workingmen's Union (1878) ; trade unionism ; Western Federation of Miners (1893) ;  Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1905)

ID EXAM 10 (pp. 251-268)

 

Friday 3-16

 

 

 

 

ID 10 is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday, March 19.

 

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

10

Monday March 19 to Friday March 23

pp. 274-280 ; Railroads, 1850-1860 ; Railroads, 1870-1890 ;  Great Strike ; access to the West, 1890 ; Red River CartsFort Sill ; Western Freighting ; Wells Fargo ; Ben Holladay

pp. 280-283 ; Manifest Destiny (Updated) ; the Second American Revolution ; Pacific Railway Act (1862, 1862) ; Homestead Act (1862) ; Life Among the Paiutes

pp. 283-285 ; the Big Four ; Credit Mobilier ; the Power of the Railroads ; Oakland (1906) as Terminus ; Henry George's Warning

 

 

Weds 3-21

 

Essay #3 Discussion Board

Essay #3 Discussion Board

is due by 7 p.m. today.

Friday 3-23

 

Essay Evaluation #3

Essay Evaluation #3 is due by 7 p.m. today

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

11

Monday March 26 to Friday March 30

pp. 285-290 ; Chinese railworkers ; the Frontier Index ; Land Grant map ; Promontory Point ; the Golden Spike ; the new Overland Trail

pp. 290-294 ; the Panic of 1873Geronimo

pp. 294-300 ; Jesse James ; Butch Cassidy ; Henry George and the Single Tax ; the Octopus ; the Great Railroad Strike (1877) ; Denis Kearney ; South-of-Market ; anti-Chinese sentiment in San Francisco ; Rock Springs Massacre ; "Kearney Must Go" ; Chinese Exclusion Act; the Pullman Strike ; Sacramento 

Recommended Reading: "Reclaiming Polly Bemis" in Garceau-Hagen, pp. 157-178.

 

ID EXAM 11 (pp. 268-283)

 

Weds 3-28

 

Multiple Choice Exam 6 (pp. 256-300), 24 points

Multiple Choice Exam 6 is available today at 11:00 a.m. and due by 7 p.m. Monday April 30.

 

ID 11 is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday, April 9.

Friday 3-30

Holiday - Cesar Chavez Day

 

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

12

Monday 4-2

 

Spring Recess

 

 

Weds 4-4

Friday 4-6

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

13

 

Monday April 9 Beginning this week, I am offering an extra credit assignment, watching several movies available through the DVC Library or in movie rental stores. Follow this link for more information.   Your deadline for submitting these extra credit activities is 7 p.m. Monday May 21.

Monday April 9 to Friday April 13

pp. 301-314 ; Cortes ; Vaqueros ; Cowboys ; Cattle Trails ; Cowboys and Cowtowns ; Meat Packing ; Entertainers ; brands

pp. 314-317 ; Elizabeth Collins ; Correr el Gallo ; Rodeo Queens 

pp. 317-320 ; Buffalo Hunters ; Slaughter ; Swan Land & Cattle Co. ; XIT Ranch ; the Cowboy Strike (1883) 

pp. 320-329 ;  Lincoln County Wars I ; William Bonney and Lincoln County Wars II ; Las Gorras Blancas ; the Great Die UpJohnson County War

pp. 330-334 ;  Log Cabin Bill ; Land Monopoly ; Homestead Act (1862) ; railroad land ; Free Soil ; A Dismal Success Rate

pp. 334-341 ; the California Redwood Company ; the Great American Desert ; development of the Great Plains ; Barbed Wire ; Soddies ; Turkey Red ; Windmills ; Defeat 

pp. 341-346  ; Harvesting Technology ; McCormick Reaper ; Bonanza Farming ; Miller & LuxWomen Homesteaders ; Elinore Pruitt Stewart 

Recommended Reading: "Curative Space of the American West," in Garceau-Hagen, pp. 209-232.

ID EXAM 12 (pp. 283-300)

 

ID EXAM 13 (pp. 301-325)

 

Friday 4-13

 

 

 

ID 12  and ID 13 are available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete them by 7 p.m. Monday, April 16. 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

14

Monday April 16 to Friday April 20

 

 

pp. 346-354 ; Falling Farm Pricesthe Power of the Railroads ; Monetary Politics ; the Greenback Party (1876) ; the Grange ; Farmers' Alliance songbook ; flag ; parade ; sub-treasury plan ; Mary Elizabeth Lease ; Woman Suffrage ; People's Party Platform (1896) ; Henry George and the Single Tax ; Elections of 1892 and 1896 ; Farmers' Unrest and American Imperialism 

pp. 354-361 ; sharecropping ; Black sharecroppers ; White sharecroppers; Southern Tenant Farmers Union ; California farm labor ; the Wheatland Riot ; Mexican immigration, 1910-1920

pp. 362-373 ; Hamlin Garland ; School Marms ; Cane Ridge 'Great Revival' (1801); Mormon Families ;  Deseret ; Mountain Meadows Massacre ; Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act ; Utah Statehood ; Exodusters

Recommended Reading: "Mining a Mythic Past," in Garceau-Hagen, pp. 21-36.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

15

Monday April 23 to Friday April 27

pp. 373-379 ; Plains Wars ; Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce ; Treaty of Medicine Lodge I ; Treaty of Medicine Lodge II ; Carlisle Indian Industrial School ; Americanization ; Dawes Severalty (Allotment) Act (1887) ; Practical Consequences of Allotment ; An Abysmal Success Rate 

pp. 379-383 ; the Ghost Dance ; Wounded Knee Massacre

pp.  383-387 ; Scandinavians ; A Norwegian in Wisconsin ; German St. Louis ; Imperial Valley Swiss ; Solvang ; Resisting Assimilation

pp. 387-395 ; Main Street U.S.A. ; Sinclair Lewis ; Jim Crow in California ; Lynch Law ; Anti-Immigrant Sentiment ; KKK ; Persecution ; Gentleman's Agreement ; Alien Land Law (1913) ; Picture Brides ; Cortez Colony ; WWI  

pp. 395-400; Texas Politics ; the Mexican Revolution and El Plan de San Diego ; Soldaderas ; the Zimmerman telegram ; Farm Labor Housing ; Organizing Farm Laborers ; Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union ; Braceros

 

 

Friday 4-27

 

Multiple Choice Exam 7, pp. 301-400, 28 points 

Multiple Choice Exam 7 is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday April 30.

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

16

Monday April 30 to Friday May 4

pp. 401-413 ; Frederick Jackson Turner ; Urban Imperialism ; "Porkopolis" ;  St. Louis and Wall Street  ; Rock Island Line ; the rise of Chicago ; the Commodities Exchange ; Regional Economies ; the Mormon Corridor ; Spindletop 

pp. 413-416 ; the rise of Los Angeles ; Imperial San Francisco ; the Fight for a Free Harbor ; the Land Grab ; the Owens Valley Aqueduct ; Collis P. Huntington's Red Cars

pp. 416-424 ; Needs of Farm Women ; Domestic Violence ; Mari Sandoz ; Amusements for the Working Class ; San Francisco Chinatown ; Mamie Tape v. S.F.

pp. 424-427 ; State Societies ; the So. Cal. Oil Industry ; Huntington Beach ; the Lakeview Gusher ; KKK in California ;  Restrictive Covenants ; Mexican L.A. ; Watts 

pp. 427-433 ; Mexican Repatriation, 1930s ; Repatriados ; L.A. Deportation Raids ; Mexicanos and WWII ; Pachucos ; Immigration Restriction Act (1924) ; Japanese American Citizens League ; Executive Order 9066

pp. 434-439 ; Extinct Species (just the Mammals), U.S.; Industrial Logging ; Hydraulic Mining ; Farmers v. Miners ; Mercury Contamination ; Oil Drilling ; 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill ; L.A. Discovers Smog 

ID EXAM 14 (pp. 401-417)

 

ID EXAM 15 (pp. 417-433)

 

Weds 5-2

 

Essay #4 Discussion Board

Essay #4 Discussion Board is due today by 7 p.m.

Friday 5-4

 

Essay Evaluation #4

Essay Evaluation #4 is due by 7 p.m. today

 

ID 14 and ID 15  are available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete them by 7 p.m. Monday, May 7. 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

17

 

 

 

 

Monday May 7 to Friday May 11

pp. 439-444 ; Sportsmen and Conservation ; Boone and Crockett Club ; George Catlin's Indians ; National Parks ; Yellowstone and Jay Cooke ; John Muir 

pp. 444-453 ; Timber Cutting Act (1878) ; the American Forestry Association (1875) ; George Perkins Marsh ; the Sierra Club (1892) ; Preservation vs. Conservation ; Weyerhaeuser Company ; Park Rangers 

pp. 453-457; Reclamation [Newlands] Act (1902) ; Act Text ; Damming the ColoradoHetch Hetchy ; Imperial Valley (Newlands Act Runs Amok) ; Colorado River Aqueduct ; Irrigated Farming

pp. 457-461 ; Agricultural Adjustment Act ; Bank Failures ; the Dust Bowl ; Mass Exodus ; "Okies" and "Arkies" ; Great Depression ; Lynching

pp. 461-464 ; Civilian Conservation Corps ; shelterbelts ; Executive Order No. 6910 ; the Tennessee Valley Authority ; Building the Hoover [Boulder] Dam ; Rural Electrification Act (1936) ; Henry J. Kaiser

464-470 ; Criticizing Assimilation ; the Merriam Report ; Indian Reorganization Act (1934) ; San Carlos Apaches ; "Back to the Blanket" ; Indian Citizenship Act (1924) ; Native Americans in WWINavajo vs. Hoover Dam

pp. 472-480 ; Telling the Stories of the West: Part I: the Legend of Daniel Boone ; Lawyers and Indians ; David Crockett ; Dime Novels ; Maleska ; Calamity Jane 

pp.  480-493 ; George Catlin's Indians ; Karl Bodmer ; George Caleb Bingham ; Palmer, "Westward the Course of Empire" ; Albert Bierstadt  ; Frederick Remington 

pp. 493-498 ; the Frontier and American Imperialism ; Teddy Roosevelt ; Owen Wister 

pp. 498-502 ;  Buffalo Bill's Wild West ; Annie Oakley

ID EXAM 16 (pp. 434-450)

 

ID EXAM 17 (pp. 450-464)

 

ID EXAM 18 (pp. 464-498)

 

Friday 5-11

 

 

 

ID 16, 17 and 18 are available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete them by 7 p.m. Monday, May 14. 

 

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

 

 

 

Mon May 14 to Friday May 18

pp. 502-508 ; The Great Train Robbery (1903) ; Grauman's Chinese ; Western movies ; Television 

pp. 508-510 ; Telling the Stories of the West, Part II: Steinbeck ; Destination Nowhere ; Stagecoach (1939)

pp. 512-520 ;  James A. Michener ; World War II's transformation of the West ; California's New Economic Frontier ; A. P. Giannini ; Howard Hughes ; J. Robert Oppenheimer ; Atomic Research ; Hewlett-Packard ; Carey McWilliams' "Factories in the Fields"

pp. 520-528 ; Suburbanization ; Culver City ; Lakewood ; Portland, Oregon ; Levittown ; racially restrictive covenants ; Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) 

pp. 528-536 ; Civil Rights ; Rumsford Fair Housing Act (1963) ; Prop 14 (1964) ; Ronald Reagan ; Manifest Destiny (an Update) ; Gunsmoke (1957-1975) ; Vietnamizing the Western ; The Searchers (1956) ; Cheyenne Autumn (1964) ; Little Big Man (1970) ; Unforgiven (1992) 

pp. 536-543 ; Navajo Code-Talkers ; National Council of American Indians (1944) ; Indian Claims Commission (1945) ; An Example: California's Washoe Indians ; The Federated Indians of California (1947) ; TerminationAmerican Indian Movement ; Indians of All Tribes holds Alcatraz ; Wounded Knee (1973) ; Taos Blue Lake ; Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (1988) ; Federally Recognized Tribes ; Cabazon Band of Mission Indians

pp. 543-548 ; Black CaliforniaPolite Racism ; War Jobs ; Lynch Law ; Mexican-American MobilizationVoting Restrictions ; Crystal City, Texas ;  Felix Longoria and the American G. I. Forum ; Segregated Schools ; Mendez v. Westminster (1947)

pp. 548-555 ; the "Oriental School" ; Brown v. Board of Education ; Segregated L.A. ; Watts ; the McCone Commission ; Black Panther Party for Self-Defense ; Huey P. Newton ; BPP Community Programs ; Brown Berets ; Cesar Chavez ; Illegal Immigration ; Prop 187 ; What does illegal immigration "cost"? ; Rodney King and Koreatown ; A Korean Perspective on the King Riots

pp. 555-560 ; Wilderness Act (1964) ;  National Parks and Forests ; Welfare Ranching ; Sagebrush Rebellion in Nevada ; SBR in Arizona ; Variations on the SRB ; Trans-Alaska Pipeline ; Dubya and Gale Norton

 

 

 

Fri 5-18

CUMULATIVE EXAM 4, pp. 401-560, 71 points 

CUMULATIVE EXAM 4

Today is the last day of instruction.

CUMULATIVE EXAM 4 is available today at 11:00 a.m. You must complete it by 7 p.m. Monday, 5-21.

 

WEEK

DATE

READ

ASSIGNMENTS 

DUE DATES

 

GRADING

Cumulative Exam 1

50

points

381 - 292 points =  A

Cumulative Exam 2

60

points

291 - 271 points =  B

Cumulative Exam 3

60

points

270 - 250 points =  C  

Cumulative Exam 4

71

points

249 - 209 points =  D  

Essays

20

points

Essay Evaluations

12

points

 

Identification Quizzes

108

points

TOTAL POINTS POSSIBLE

381

 

   

 

 

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