Demography 145/History 139B Spring 2012

(Spring 2011 M-W-F 3-4PM in 110 Barrows)
Sections: W 2-3PM ; Th 4-5PM 2232 Piedmont Rm 101

		Lecture Topics		Lab and Exam Related Stuff
Week 1	Jan 116-20	Monday Holiday Introduction/Administrivia syllabus World Demographic History. slides The three humps of human history Sapolsky		General Information about Labs Everything about lab assignments in general Lab Manual Partners LAB 0 Assignment and Data
Week 2	Jan 23-27	Life in the Americas in 1491 Mann The Colonial Period Virginia: The first "successful" colony in British North America. slides English constitutionalism, society and population. Hakluyt American Unfreedom and "classical" republicanism. Morgan		Lab 0 Due Jan27
Week 3	Jan30- Feb3	New England: Puritan city on a hill...Yankees in the suburbs. slides English Reformation, religious settlements and Puritanism. Dedham town covenant Growth of New England's population and economy; development of "liberal" republicanism. Daniels Ch2		LAB 1 Assignment, Data The Westward Migration of Slavery slides
Week 4	Feb 6-10	The Rest of British North America. slides The enslaved majority in the Deep South; Diversity of a protestant sort in the Middle Colonies; and "Scotch Irish" on the frontier.Daniels Ch3-4 The Revolution and the Republic. slides The "asylum for mankind" ideology and citizenship CreveCouer		LAB 1 Discussion: Fogel and Engermann slides
Week 5	Feb 13-17	The Naturalization Act of 1790...1795..1798..1800. Anti-radical nativism. Jefferson, Hamilton and the first party system. Jefferson   Hamilton Daniels Ch5 The Pre-Industrial Period Population and immigration in the 19th Century slides Industrialization, Immigration and the Demographic Transition. Daniels Ch6 Industrialization, Immigration and the Demographic Transition. Pt-2 Daniels Ch6		Questions for Exam 1 DUE Feb14 LAB 1 DUE Feb17
Week 6	Feb 20-24	Monday Holiday		Exam 1:Feb 22 Lab 1 Presentations
Week 7	Feb27-Mar2	German and Irish migration: rural to rural vs rural to urban migration; Famine; the Radical Attempt to conserve vs Exile. slides Anti-Catholic Nativism and the Civil War slides The Abolitionists the Irish and the Democrats. Morse. Irish Address The Know-Nothings,the Republicans and the Civil War		LAB 2 Assignment, Data New Lab Partners
Week 8	Mar 5-9	Chinese immigrants in California slides Chinese immigration and Labor Unions: The mines; the railroads; the factories. Daniels Ch9 Chinese exclusion People vs Hall		LAB 2 Discussion Geographical and Occupational Isolation of Chinese in CA 1880 Meet with instructor to craft ingenious thesis sign up
Week 9	Mar 12-16	The Industrial Period The Second Industrial Revolution and the Guilded Age slides Big Industry: Big labor demand; "New" labor immigration. Daniels Chap 7-8 The Progressive Era: The reaction slides Immigration Restriction League and the Literacy Test Ward Walker Scientific Racism Grant, Ross, Box
Week 10	Mar19-23	World War I: Hysteria and Legal Restriction slides The Literacy Test again and again; The Gentlemen's Agreement; The Asian Barred Zone; WWI Neutrality and German-Americans. (audio)Gerhart The Sedition Act of 1918; The Red Scare; The Nationalities Act of 1924 and it's aftermath. Daniels Chap 10		LAB 2 Due Mar21 (Wed) LAB 3 Assignment New lab partners. Questions for Exam 2 due Mar25 LAB 2 Presentations
Mar 26-30 Spring Break
Week 11	Apr 2-6	Depression and Rising Tensions slides Effects of Nationalities Act, Interactions between race and law: Plessy vs Furgusen, Ozawa, Thind, Cardozian Ozawa Thind		LAB 3 Discussion: Hispanic Families Suro Chap 1-3 Exam 2:Apr 6
Week 12	Apr 9-13	Depression; Philippine Independence; Jewish refugees; Mexican repatriation. Daniels Chap 11 World War II slides Japanese internment; Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Act.		LAB 3 Discussion Hispanic Families and Data Suro Chap 4-18 Meet with instructor to craft ingenious thesis for Lab 3 sign up
Week 13	Apr 16-20	The Post-Industrial Period Cold War and Civil Rights Era slides Displaced Persons; Quotas; McCarran-Walter Act. Daniels Chap 13 The Hart Cellar Act(1965) The End of Nationalities Quotas.
Week 14	Apr23-27	Liberalization of Immigration in the 1980s and 90s. slides Refugees and Asylees: Cubans; Central Americans; Refugee Act of 1980;Mariel Boat Lift. Undocumented Aliens, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and its failure. Daniels Chap 16 Economic impacts of immigration slides The Value of Diversity		LAB 3 Due: Apr27
Week 15	Apr30-May4	Reading Review and Recitation Week Apr30 Exam Question Workshop May2 Lab Presentations		LAB 3 Presentations Questions for Exam 3 DUE May2
Finals Week	May 7-11	Final Exam Group 12: WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 7-10PM in GSPP 150