STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 Upon completion of this course, the student should demonstrate knowledge and/or skill in the following areas.

 

 I. Four general goals integrate history with workplace skills:

 A. Acquire information from many sources.

 B. Break complex and multiple sources of information down into parts to create clearer understanding.

 C. Understand the impact of time and space on perspective.

 D. Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.

 

 II. Throughout the survey course, students should be introduced to course content, practice using course content, and demonstrate they can:

 A. Identify trends, events, peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions covered in this course.

 B. Communicate orally and in writing about the content.

 C. Use library resources for historical research.

 D. Demonstrate that they can analyze secondary sources and recognize differences in historical interpretation.

 E. Identify the perspective of primary sources.

 F. Construct historical narratives by identifying patterns of continuity and change and referring to specific primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.

 G. Demonstrate the ability to select and apply contemporary forms of technology to solve problems or compile information.

 

 III. After successfully completing HIS203: The Civil War Era in American History you will be able to

 

 A. Describe the basic outline of the history of the Civil War Era, with a focus on key historical events and personages.

 B. Analyze the impact of Civil War political, cultural, economic and intellectual developments on American contemporary civilization.

 C. Analyze the impact of cultural intersections during the Civil War Era in the development of the modern American civilizations.

 D. Respond critically to Civil War Era primary sources, demonstrating an understanding of their importance both to their own time and to the modern era.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 

 I. Slavery and the American Republic

 II. The Mexican War: the lessons taught and learned

 III. Political Collapse, 1848-1860

 IV. Secession

 V. Fort Sumter and Lincoln’s 11 week “dictatorship”

 VI. Slavery vs. Freedom The Emancipation Proclamation

 VII. The “Other” War: The War in North and South

 VIII. At the home front and the battle’s front: Women and the Civil War

 IX. The war and civil liberties

 X. Lincoln and His Generals

 XI. The Naval War

 XII. Gettysburg and Vicksburg

 XIII. A War of Exhaustion --- Sherman’s March through Georgia; Lincoln’s Re-election

 XIV. The collapse of the Confederacy and Lincoln’s Assassination

 XV. Reconstruction: Putting the country back together again during the war

 XVI. Destroying Reconstruction

 XVII. Trying to remember and trying to forget the Civil War

 XVIII        The Second Reconstruction