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.