Precis based on Defending Slavery is due on September 22ndThe American Industrial Revolution or The Other Civil War· The influence of the British Industrial Revolution· Richard Arkwright and Samue

Precis based on Defending Slavery is due on September 22nd

The American Industrial Revolution or The Other Civil War

· The influence of the British Industrial Revolution

· Richard Arkwright and Samuel Slater

· Lowell Massachusetts and the exploitation of female labor

· The birth of labor unions and the growth of corporations

· Eli Whitney and the rebirth of “king cotton”

Required Readings

People's, chapters 10 and 11; US History chapters 5 and 6

Western Expansionism: Song of the Open Road Or We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God!

· “Manifest Destiny and Mission” and the Monroe Doctrine

· The War for Texas Independence

· Oregon and “ Fifty-four forty or fight”

· James Polk and the U.S./Mexican War

· The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the creation of Mexican Americans 

Required Readings

People's, chapters 7 and 8 (revisited); US History chapters 5 and 6

Defending Slavery

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

https://photos.state.gov/libraries/amgov/30145/publications-english/history_outline.pdf