AHIS 100

Last Day of Class!

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu

Office Hrs: W 10:30-11:30 & F 11:30-12:30

Social Science 60S


maevekane.net/ahis100/lecture-slides

December 9

coming up

  • last paper Dec 4
  • studyguide on Blackboard
  • final exam Tuesday December 15 3:30-5:30pm
  • exam in this room!
  • review sessions: Dec 10 12-3

I wanted to spend more time on:

(anonymous)

      A. the 17th century
      B. the 18th century
      C. the American Revolution
      D. the 19th century
      E. the Civil War

I wanted to spend more time on:

(anonymous)

      A. economic issues
      B. legal issues
      C. religious issues
      D. gender issues
      E. race issues

Another thing I wanted to spend more time on:

(anonymous)

      A. economic issues
      B. legal issues
      C. religious issues
      D. gender issues
      E. race issues

For the textbook I:

(anonymous)

      A. liked having a free electronic textbook
      B. would like the option to buy an electronic or physical textbook
      C. would prefer buying a physical textbook
    last time
  • consequences of war
  • federal occupation
  • expansion of rights

  • today
  • restriction of rights
  • abandonment of Reconstruction
  • why is this class a gen ed?

increasing racial violence 1866-1870

  • increasing black political power
  • individual: police and employer violence
  • political: mob violence and rejection of black political authority
  • terrorist: lynching, rise of the KKK

Enforcement Acts 1870-1871

  • states' rights vs federal powers
  • majority rule vs minority rights
  • broad vs strict construction of federal powers
  • a government of the people or by the people?

Election of 1876

  • widespread corruption under Pres. Grant turns many Republicans away from Reconstruction
  • Southern Democrats threaten to not recognize Pres. Hayes - another Civil War?
  • Compromise of 1877 - one more compromise?
  • federal troops withdrawn from South
  • Enforcement Acts no longer enforced

states' rights vs civil rights

  • what is the role of the federal government?
  • who protects individual rights from states?
  • do individual rights take precedence over states' rights?
  • pre-1865: what is the relationship between the state and the federal govt
  • post-1865: what is the relationship between the individual and the state

what's the big picture?

  • North America in 1500 is a big, complicated place and colonization doesn't happen smoothly
  • the most important war in American history doesn't happen in the US: English Civil War
  • slave labor and appropriation of Indian lands shape American identity
  • history is not a smooth narrative of progress

why is this class a gen ed?

  • historians are careful readers and careful writers
  • careful organization, argument and use of evidence
  • historians want to know why
  • what's the social and political context of your evidence?
  • what are the limits of your evidence?
  • how do you know what you know?

how does this relate to the present?

  • race, money and politics (everything!) are products of social and historical processes
  • modern political and social issues are the product of unresolved questions
  • our current conception of individual rights is a result of debates over states' rights