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Monday and Wednesday Lecture Topics |
FridayLab Related Stuff |
Daniels Chap 1-5 |
| Week 1 |
Jan 18-22 |
- Monday Holiday
- Introduction/Administrivia
- World Demographic History,
Sapolsky slides
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The Colonial Period |
| Week 2 |
Jan 25-29 |
- Europe in the "Early Modern" period: The Renaissance; The birth
of nation
states; The rise of the Atlantic economy; The Protestant
Reformation.
- Britain and British North America: Overpopulation; War,
Failure of absolutism; War; The success of constitutionalism; War
English Protestantism; War;
Glorious Revolution.
Hakluyt
slides
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General Information about Labs
LAB 1 Assignment, Data
additional readings
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| Week 3 |
Feb 1-5 |
- Virginia: Greed, Starvation, Tobacco, Slavery.
slides
- New England: Puritans... then Yankees.
Winthrop
slides
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LAB 1 Discussion
Fogel and Engermann
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| Week 4 |
Feb 8-12 |
- Deep South: Enslaved Majority; Mid-Atlantic: Diversity.
slides
- Revolution and Republic: The Enlightenment and the Declaration of
Independence; Jefferson and Hamilton, Immigration and the first
party system; Naturalization Act of 1790, Alien and Sedition Acts
of 1798.
Jefferson
Hamilton
slides
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LAB 1 Due Feb 11
Presentations Feb 12
LAB 2
Assignment, Data
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The Pre-industrial Period |
| Week 5 |
Feb 15-19 |
- Monday Holiday
- The 19th Century: Optimism, Growth, Industrialization and The
Demographic Transition.
- Immigration in the 19th Century
slides
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| Week 6 |
Feb 22-26 |
- German and Irish migration: rural to rural vs rural to urban
migration; Famine; the Radical Attempt to conserve
slides
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LAB 2 Discussion
Geographical and Occupational Isolation of Chinese in CA 1880
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Exam 1 (Feb 26)
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| Week 7 |
Mar 1-5 |
- Nativism and Slavery: Anti-Catholicism; Know-Nothings; Slavery
in the Territories; the run up to the Civil War.
Morse.
slides
- The Civil War
slides
- Chinese immigration and Labor Unions: The mines; the railroads;
the factories.
People vs Hall
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Takaki Chap 1-3 ; Daniels Chap 6-8 |
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The Industrial Period |
| Week 8 |
Mar 8-12 |
- Chinese migration and exclusion (continued) slides
- Big Industry: Big labor demand; "New" labor immigration.
slides
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LAB 2: Due Mar 11
Presentations Mar 12
LAB 3
Assignment, Data,
additional reading
New lab partners.
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| Week 9 |
Mar 15-19 |
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LAB 3 Discussion
Pre-industrial family values in industrial America, 1910
slides
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Daniels Chap 10-11
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Mar 22-26 Spring Break
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| Week 10 |
Mar 29 -
Apr 2 |
- World War I: Demonization of German America; Red Scare; Xenophobia;
Legal developments in Free Speech.slides
- Era of Legal Restriction: Gentlemen's Agreement; Asian Barred
Zone; Nationalities Act 1924 slides
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LAB 3 Due: Apr 1
Presentations: Apr 2
LAB 4 Assigned
Assignment,
data, additional reading
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| Week 11 |
Apr 5-9 |
- The interwar period: Depression, Effects of Nationalities Act,
Interactions between race and law: Plessy vs Furusen, Ozawa, Thind, Cardozian
Ozawa
Thind
- Philippine Independence; Jewish refugees; Mexican repatriation.
slides
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Exam 2 (Apr 9) |
| Week 12 |
Apr 12-16 |
- World War II: Japanese internment; Repeal of Chinese Exclusion
Act.
slides
- Cold War: Displaced Persons; Quotas; McCarran-Walter Act.
- Civil Rights Era:Fear of Communists vs US image abroad; The Hart
Cellar Act(1965) repeals nationalities quotas.
slides
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LAB 4 Discussion
Hispanic Families in 21st Century America
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Takaki Chap 8-10
Daniels Chap 15-16
Suro Chap 1-18 |
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The Post-industrial Period |
| Week 13 |
Apr 19-23 |
- The
liberalization of immigration in the 1980s and 90s.
- 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.
slides
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| Week 14 |
Apr 26-30 |
- Economic impacts of immigration and the value of diversity.
- Fiscal impacts of immigration slides
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LAB 4: Due: Apr 29
Presentations: Apr 30
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| Week 15 |
May 3-7 |
Reading Review and Recitation Week
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| Finals Week |
May 10-14 |
- Exam 3: Final Exam Group: 12: WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010 7-10P
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