American Settlement: Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Constitutional Convention

Reading/Discussion Day: Thomas Paine, "Common Sense," and John Adams, "What do We Mean by the American Revolution?' Group Work: Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Statute of Religious Freedom

Andrew Jackson and the Election of 1828: "Jacksonian Democracy"

Reading/Discussion Day: Jefferson and Adams, "Letters on Aristocracy" and Jackson, "The Majority is to Govern"

Westward Settlement and Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" --Writing Project #1 Due

Reading/Discussion Day: Washington's "Farewell Address," the Monroe Doctrine, and "The Great Nation of Futurity"

The 1840s: "Manifest Destiny," "Oregon Fever," Mormon Exodus, and the California Gold Rush

Reading/Discussion Day: Henry David Thoreau, Walden, JacksonŐs "First Annual Message to Congress," and Memorial of the Cherokee Nation

Sectional Differences and Spokesmen: North and South Attempts at Compromise: Missouri Compromise, Nullification Crisis, and the Compromise of 1850

Slavery Concerns and Problems

Reading/Discussion Day: "The Peculiar Institution", Grayson's "The Hireling and the Slave," and Garrison's "The Liberator"

The Civil War and the Settlement of Sectionalism --Hand out Writing Project #2, Set Conference Times