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History of Great Britain & the USA syllabus, winter term 2008
Teacher Requalifying Programme
| Department of English & American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Matej Bel University | ||
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SESSION |
TOPIC | |
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(# classes) |
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| HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN | ||
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1 |
Prehistoric Britain (– 43 A.D.) | |
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(4 classes) |
An Island People. Neolithic Farmers. Megalithic Monuments. | |
| Roman Britain (43 A.D. – 410) | ||
| Caesar’s invasions. The Roman province. Romanization of Britain. | ||
| The Anglo-Saxon period (440-1066) | ||
| The Saxons, Angles and Jutes. The House of Wessex. The Normans. | ||
| The Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) | ||
| The Norman Conquest and the Rise of a Medieval State. Magna Carta and the Decline of Feudal Rule. The beginnings of Parliament. | ||
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2 |
The Late Middle Ages (1290-1485) | |
| (4 classes) | The Hundred Years’ War (1337 – 1453). The Peasants’ Revolt. The Wars of the Roses (1455 – 1485). | |
| The Tudor Age (1485-1603) | ||
| Towards a Nation State. The English Reformation. The New Foreign Policy and the Building of Britain’s Trade Empire. | ||
| The Stuarts (1603-1688) | ||
| Parliament Against the Crown. The English Revolution (1642 – 1649). The Restoration of Monarchy. The Glorious Revolution and Constitutional Monarchy. | ||
| The Eighteen Century (1688-1789) | ||
| A Century of Conflicts. The Era of Robert Walpole. The American Revolution. Pitt, Reform and Revolution. Napoleonic Wars. | ||
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3 |
The Age of Industrial Revolution | |
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(4 classes) |
The Origins of Industrial Revolution. Population Growth and Urbanisation. The Reforms of the 1830s. | |
| The Age of Liberalism (1851-1914) | ||
| Mid-Victorian Prosperity. The Gladstone-Disraeli Rivalry. The Late Victorian Empire. Women’s Suffrage. | ||
| TEST I (on topics 1 – 10, British History) | ||
| HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES | ||
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4 |
Colonial Period (1606 – 1774) | |
| (4 classes) | Amerindians. First European explorers. Early settlements. Virginia and New England. The Thirteen colonies. The French and Indian War (1756 -1763) | |
| Towards Independence (1775 -1783) | ||
| The Origins of Revolution. Britain's policy towards the colonies. The Continental Congress. Declaration of Independence. | ||
| The Formation of a National Government (1777 -1791) | ||
| The Articles of Confederation. The lack of central power. Constitutional Convention. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Federalists and Republicans. | ||
| Westward Expansion: Manifest Destiny | ||
| The Louisiana Purchase. The War of 1812. The Monroe Doctrine. The Missouri Compromise. Indian Removal. | ||
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5 |
The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861 - 1877) | |
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(4 classes) |
Sectionalism: North and South. Slavery issue: F. Douglas, the Underground Railway and Abolitionists. A. Lincoln. Civil War. Reconstruction. | |
| Years of Growth: American Empire | ||
| The Indian Wars and the American West. Industry and technology. Robber Barons. Immigration. The Spanish - American War. | ||
| Discontent and Reform | ||
| The Robber Barons. The farmers and populism. Labour movement. Reformers and progressives. T. Roosevelt. Jim Crow laws. | ||
| War and Prosperity (1917 - 1929) | ||
| World War I. Wilson's Fourteen Points. The Roaring twenties. Prohibition. The Suffragists. Big business. | ||
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6 |
Depression and the New Deal (1929 -1941) | |
| (4 classes) | Crash and depression. F. D. Roosevelt and the policy of New Deal. Isolationism and the outside world. | |
| From Isolationism to Hiroshima: World War II. | ||
| End of neutrality. War in the Pacific. War in Europe. The birth of Atomic age: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The post-war settlement. | ||
| TEST II (on topics 1 – 10, History of the United States) | ||