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Lecture One:

1 What Students Find Challenging About History
2 The Key to Mastering History
3 Periods in American History
4 Why America?
5 Organizing History
6 Pre-Columbian Period
7 Exploration (Columbian Period)
8 New Spain
9 New France
10 English Settlements
11 The Colonies
12 Economic System
13 Other immigrants
14 A Word About College Board Exams

Lecture Two:

1 Test-taking tips
2 Colonial History
3 The Salem Witch Trials
4 Salutary Neglect
5 The Zenger Trial
6 1730-1740: The Great Awakening
7 Migration and Conflict
8 George Washington
9 French and Indian War
10 King George III, and Debts
11 Tension Grows
12 Conflict Increases
13 Violence Begins
14 Causes of the Revolutionary War
15 The Revolutionary War

Lecture Three:

1 Review
2 State Constitutions
3 The "Founding Fathers"
4 The Articles of Confederation
5 The Constitutional Convention
6 George Washington's Presidency
7 The Supreme Court
8 The Two-Party System
9 The Presidency of John Adams

Lecture Four:

1 Tariffs
2 District of Columbia
3 Revolution of 1800
4 Jefferson Administration
5 The Marshall Court
6 The War of 1812 and Madison's Presidency
7 The Conservative President: James Monroe
8 The Election of 1814, also the Steamboat
9 Jacksonian Democracy
10 Whig Party
11 Slavery 1800-1840
12 Other Developments 1800-1840

Lecture Five:

1 The "Accidental Presidency"
2 The Alamo
3 1840s: Social Movements, Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion
4 James K. Polk and War with Mexico
5 Taylor, Fillmore and the Compromise of 1850
6 President Franklin Pierce and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
7 "Bleeding Kansas"
8 Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln: Irreconcilably Different
9 The Debate over Slavery
10 James Buchanan
11 The Election of 1860
12 The North and South: Strengths and Weaknesses
13 Antebellum (pre-Civil War) State Admissions

Lecture Six:

1 Secession
2 Civil War - 1861-1861
3 The Trent Affair
4 Civil War - 1863-1865
5 Surrender
6 President Andrew Johnson
7 Reconstruction
8 Other Happenings During the Civil War and Reconstruction Periods
9 Grant Administration

Lecture Seven:

1 Yankee Ingenuity
2 The Election of 1880
3 The Grange Movement
4 Big Business and Big Oil
5 The "Gilded Age"
6 Bimetallism
7 Unions and Immigrant Workers
8 Indians and the Frontier
9 Tariffs and an Income Tax
10 The Conservative Democrat
11 Preparing for the "Turn of the Century"

Lecture Eight: Review for the Midterm Exam.

Midterm Exam.

Lecture Nine:

1 Election of 1896
2 Imperialism
3 Spanish-American War
4 More Imperialism
5 Progressive Movement

Lecture Ten:

1 Teddy Roosevelt
2 Social trends and Court decisions
3 1909 to 1914
4 World War I
5 Post-World War I
6 Social Darwinism
7 Scopes Trial

Lecture Eleven:

1 The Roaring Twenties
2 The Great Depression
3 FDR, the New Deal, and Preparing for War
4 World War II
5 Cold War
6 Communist Infiltration
7 United Nations
8 Immigration

Lecture Twelve:

1 The Cold War (continued from last lecture)
2 The 80th Congress
3 The Korean War
4 Post World War II Culture
5 The Warren Court
6 Civil Rights
7 The "Great Society"
8 The Vietnam War
9 ERA and Abortion

Lecture Thirteen:

1 The 1970s
2 President Ronald Reagan
3 Gulf War
4 Clarence Thomas
5 Bill Clinton
6 21st Century
7 The Supreme Court
8 A Very Brief History of America
9 Review for Final Exam

Final Exam.