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Transcript of History 135: American History through 1877 Introduction & Course Policies.
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History 135: American History through 1877
Introduction & Course Policies
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1. Review syllabus ASAP
2. Obtain the appropriate texts
3. Turn off all cell phones!
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I. Was America a Mistake?
An 18th Century Debate
300th Anniversary of Columbian Voyage
(1992 - how to remember this event?)
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A. Biological/natural inferiority
1. 1780s - Comte de Buffon
“It is a great and terrible spectacle to see one half of the globe disfavoredby nature that everything found thereis degenerate or monstrous.”
2. Animals were smaller
3. Natives illiterate, peaceful
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4. Jefferson’s response
1787 - Notes on the State of Virginia
* natural bounty
* justified slavery
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B. Cultural and racial degeneration
1. Slavery
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2. Warfare among nation-states (1550-1815)
1600s: 87 conflicts; 1700-1800s, world war
3. Individual brutality
Conquistadors
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4. Racial degeneration
coureurs de bois (French) mestizos (Spanish)
a. “mixed” couples
b. diluted religion
c. genocide
Fur Traders Descend the Missouri - Bingham
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C. Mob politics
1. Dangers of democratization how far should it go?
2. Dark side of people
“Age of Jackson”
- Indian Removal, religious persecution,
political/social repression, nativism,
ecological devastation
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D. Failure of the American Experiment
1. Enlightenment principles contract nationalism John Locke
2. The fall of the
United States
(version 1776)
“blood & iron”