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• The Nash digital textbook chapters below are in the Pearson REVEL website; the SC readings are also found there. • Only answer one forum topic; your choice. • Forum answers should be 100-150 words each. They do not require outside research (just your best thoughts); but, if you use outside information or data, it must be referenced. Week 1 24 – 30 August 2020 Read: Chapter 14: The Union Reconstructed (1863-1877) Read: SC 14.2: Marcus Hopkins, Freedmen’s Bureau Agent at Brentsville… . (1866) Read: SC 14.6: …Andrew Johnson Impeachment Ticket Topic 1: What were the major successes of Reconstruction? It’s major failures and why? Topic 2: What are some parallels between Reconstruction Era social-political issues and those in 2020? Topic 3: Why couldn’t President Andrew Johnson and Congress (e.g., Radical Republicans) get along on the issue of Reconstruction? Week 2 31 August – 06 September 2020 Read: Chapter 15: The Realities of Rural America Read: SC 15.1: Frederick Jackson Turner, Significance of the Frontier…History (1893) Topic 1: What were the major successes of American agricultural expansion? It’s failures – why? Topic 2: Where do you agree with the “Frontier Thesis”? Where do you disagree with it – why? Topic 3: What are some parallels between late 19th-century agriculture and farming issues today? Week 3 07 – 13 September 2020 Read: Chapter 16: The Rise of Smokestack America Read: SC 16.1: William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold Speech” (1896) Topic 1: What were the major successes of late 19th-century American industrial expansion? It’s failures – why? Topic 2: Regarding the “Cross of Gold” speech, where do you agree and disagree with Bryan – why? Topic 3: Do you see parallels between American workers in the 1890’s and those of today? Week 4 14 – 20 September 2020 Read: Chapter 17: The New Metropolis Read: SC 17.1: Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890) Read: SC 17.5: Lincoln Steffens, from The Shame of the Cities (1904) Topic 1: What were the benefits of the large cities like New York and Chicago? Topic 2: What were the problems of the large cities like New York and Chicago? Topic 3: Do you see parallels between new metropolises of 1900 America and megacities of today? ********** Week 5 21 – 27 September 2020 TEST 1 (Chapters 14, 15, 16, 17) Read: Chapter 18: Becoming a World Power Read: SC 18.1: Josiah Strong, from Our Country (1885) Read: SC 18.3: Roosevelt Defends His Acquisition of the Panama Canal Zone (1913) Topic 1: Discuss the "United States as a model society" and how it affected American foreign policy in the late 19th-century. Topic 2: How did "profits, piety, and politics" affect American foreign policy in the late 19th-century? Topic 3: Discuss President Theodore Roosevelt's belief the United States should seek national glory and greatness in world affairs. Week 6 28 September – 04 October 2020 Read: Chapter 19: Progressives Confront Industrial Capitalism Read: SC 19.2: Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle (1905) Read: SC 19.3: Frederick Taylor, Scientific Management (1911) Topic 1: What were some success/failures of the Progressives prior to World War I? Topic 2: Contrast the progressive styles of Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Topic 3: What were working conditions like for the average laborer—American and immigrant? Week 7 05 – 11 October 2020 Read: Chapter 20: The Great War Read: SC 20.2: The Zimmermann Telegram (1917) Read: SC 20.3: Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points (1918) Read: SC 20.5: Drafting Committee, Key Provisions of the Versailles Peace Treaty (1919) Topic 1: Why was America initially neutral in World War I? Why did it become a belligerent? Topic 2: How did World War I significantly affect American society, economy, and government? Topic 3: What were President Wilson's successes/failures vis-à-vis the Versailles Treaty? Week 8 12 – 18 October 2020 Read: Chapter 21: Affluence & Anxiety Read: SC 21.1: Mitchell Palmer on The Menace of Communism (1920) Read: SC 21.3: Parish & McClintic, Debating Immigration Restriction (1921) Read: SC 21.5: Marcus Garvey Calls for Black Separatism (1921) Topic 1: What were the major American fears—public & government—during the 1920's? Topic 2: What were some of the business and technology advances during the 1920's? Topic 3: How did the lives of women change during the 1920's? ********** Week 9 19 – 25 October 2020 TEST 2 (Chapters 18, 19, 20, 21) Read: Chapter 22: The Great Depression & the Effort to Survive Read: SC 22.2: Huey Long, "Share Our Wealth" (1935) Read: SC 22.4: Franklin Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address (1933) Read: SC 22.5: Frances Perkins and the Social Security Act (1935) Topic 1: Why did the Bonus Army march on Washington (May 1932)? What was the result? Topic 2: How was the New Deal successful (or not) in solving the problems of the Great Depression? Topic 3: What were the programs passed during the First, Second, and Third New Deals? Week 10 26 October – 01 November 2020 Read: Chapter 23: Another Global War [World War II] Read: SC 23.1: Franklin Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" (1941) Read: SC 23.2: Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066: Relocation of Japanese Americans (1942) Read: SC 23.3: Virginia Wilkinson, "From Housewife to Shipfitter" (1943) Topic 1: What were the major events (1930's) leading to World War II in Europe? Topic 2: What were the major events (1920's/1930's) leading to war between America and Japan? Topic 3: What were President Roosevelt's major concerns at the Yalta Conference (1945)? Week 11 02 – 08 November [open 10/15, close 11/25] Read: Chapter 24: Cold War Confrontation, 1945 - 1960 Read: SC 24.1: George Kennan, The Long Telegram (1946) Read: SC 24.3: George Marshall, The Marshall Plan (1947) Read: SC 24.4: Harry S. Truman, The Truman Doctrine (1947) Read: SC 24.5: NSC-68 (1950) Topic 1: Contrast the American and Soviet worldviews at the end of World War II. Topic 2: How did the American position on aid after WWII contribute to the development of the Cold War (1947-1989) with the Soviet Union? Topic 3: How did the United States react to the 1959 Castro revolution in Cuba? Week 12 09 – 15 November [open 10/16, close 11/26] Read: Chapter 25: Postwar America at Home, 1945-1960 Read: SC 25.1: Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell to the Nation (01/17/1961) Read: SC 25.4: Harry Truman, E.O. 9981: Desegregation…Armed Forces (1948) Read: SC 25.5: President Eisenhower Uses National Guard…Desegregate Central HS (1957) Topic 1: Discuss the general economic conditions in America from 1945-1960. Topic 2: Describe life for the typical white, middle-class, white-collar family from 1950-1960. ********** Week 13 16 – 22 November [open 10/26, close 12/11] TEST 3 (Chapters 22, 23, 24, 25) Read: Chapter 26: Reform & Rebellion in the Turbulent Sixties, 1960 - 1969 Read: SC 26.1: Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) Read: SC 26.2: John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (1961) Read: SC 26.4: Lyndon Johnson, The War on Poverty (1964) Topic 1: Discuss the leadership styles of Presidents John Kennedy (New Frontier) and Lyndon Johnson (Great Society). Topic 2: Comment on the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. Week 14 23 – 29 November [open 10/27, close 12/12] Read: Chapter 27: Disorder & Discontent, 1969-1980 Read: SC 27.3: Roe v. Wade (1973) Read: SC 27.4: Ione Malloy Describes the Conflict Over Busing in Boston (1965) Read: SC 27.5: House Judiciary Committee's Conclusion on [Nixon] Impeachment (1974) Topic 1: Discuss Nixon as a political leader and evaluate his programs. Topic 2: Discuss President Nixon's success in achieving his foreign policy objectives. Topic 3: Discuss President Nixon's administration and the Civil Rights Movement. Topic 4: Discuss the Watergate incident and Nixon's removal from office. Week 15 Read: Chapter 28: Conservatism and a Shift in Course, 1980 - 2016 Read: SC 28.1: George Bush, Allied Military Action in the Persian Gulf (1991) Read: SC 28.2: George W. Bush, [9/11] Address to Congress (09/20/2001) Read: SC 28.3: Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address (1981) Topic 1: Discuss the domestic conservative agenda of the Reagan–Bush eras (1980-1992). Topic 2: Under Reagan-Bush, summarize US foreign relations with the Soviet Union, the Middle East, and Latin America. Topic 3: What did you learn in this class? Week 16 Test 4 (Chapters 26, 27, 28) 04 - 10 MTSU Finals Week 10 Fall Semester Ends 13 Course Grades Due to Registrar (Sunday!)