Demography 145/History 139B Spring 2013

(Spring 2013 Lecture: M-W-F 3-4PM in 110 Barrows)
Section: Tu 3-4PM 2232 Piedmont Rm 101

		Lecture Topics		Lab and Exam Related Stuff
Week 1	Jan 21-25	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 Record Group Members LAB 0 Assignment and Data
Week 2	Jan28-Feb1	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		Section Meets Lab 0 Due Feb1
Week 3	Feb4-Feb8	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	Feb11-Feb15	The Rest of British North America. slides The enslaved majority in the Deep South; Diversity of a protestant sort in the Middle Colonies; and "Scots-Irish" on the frontier. Dunn Daniels Ch3-4 The Revolution and the Republic. slides The "asylum for mankind" ideology and citizenship CreveCouer		LAB 1 Discussion: Fogel and Engermann slides Section Meets LAB 1 DUE Feb15
Week 5	Feb18-22	Monday Holiday The Naturalization Act of 1790...1795..1798..1800. Anti-radical nativism. Jefferson, Hamilton and the first party system. Jefferson   Hamilton Daniels Ch5		Lab 1 Presentations Section Meets Questions for Exam 1 DUE Feb22
Week 6	Feb25-Mar1	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		Exam 1:Mar1
Week 7	Mar4-8	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		LAB 2 Assignment, Data New Lab Partners LAB 2 Discussion: Geographical and Occupational Isolation of Chinese in CA 1880
Week 8	Mar 11-15	The Know-Nothings,the Republicans and the Civil War Chinese immigrants in California slides Chinese immigration and Labor Unions: The mines; the railroads; the factories. Daniels Ch9 Chinese exclusion People vs Hall		Meet with instructor to craft ingenious thesis sign up
Week 9	Mar18-22	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		Section Meets LAB 2 Due Mar22
Mar 25-29 Spring Break
Week 10	Apr1-5	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 Presentations Section Meets Extended Office Hours Questions for Exam 2 due Apr5 LAB 3 Assignment New lab partners.
Week 11	Apr8-12	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 12
Week 12	Apr15-19	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	Apr22-26	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.		Section Meets
Week 14	Apr29-May3	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 Economic value of diversity		LAB 3 Due: May3
Week 15	May6-10	Reading Review and Recitation Week May 6 Exam Question Workshop May 8 Lab Presentations		LAB 3 Presentations Questions for Exam 3 DUE May8
Finals Week	May 7-11	Final Exam Group 12: WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013 7-10PM