Day 1 National:  Historiography and the American Identity, Jeffersonian Republicanism and the Era of Good

Feelings: “The Revolution of 1800,” changing political philosophies: Republicans vs. Federalists, Louisiana Purchase, diplomatic and domestic issues, War of 1812, foreign diplomacy: Monroe Doctrine, domestic issues: slavery and Missouri Compromise, early cases of Supreme Court.

Chautauqua County Historical Society

Chautauqua County Historian, Michelle Henry

Fenton History Center

SUNY Fredonia History Department:  Dr. John Staples, Dr. Mary Beth Sievens

Local: Pioneer Letters, Survey Maps, Native American Issues, Holland Land Company Maps, Earliest Legal and Court Records, Formation of Towns: Names, Products and Settlers, War of 1812, Roads, Canals, Railroads, Erie Canal, Mills & Transportation, Manufacturing & Agricultural Crops, Immigration, Ethnicity & Poor Farms, Burnt Over District: Rise of Religious Movements, Abolitionist Movement, Underground Railroad, Women’s Suffrage, Utopian Communities.

Day 2  Local Travel Day: Chautauqua County Sites.  Architecture, U.G.R.R., Chautauqua Institution, Lily Dale, A. Lincoln site Westfield, Harmonia Religious Community, French Pioneer Site Sherman, Poor Farm, First Grange Hall, WCTU Site, and Fenton History Center.

Chautauqua County Historical Society

Chautauqua County Historian, District Archivist Pam Brown

Day 3  Jacksonian America: The election of 1824 and the corrupt bargain, the creation of Jackson’s Democratic Party, Nullification Crisis and states’ rights, battle with the Supreme Court: Cherokee Indian Removal, the Bank of the United States, Jackson’s economic policies, Martin Van Buren’s domestic policies, the panic of 1837, and the election of 1840: Hard Cider and Log Cabin Campaign

Chautauqua County Historical Society

Chautauqua County Historian, Michelle Henry, Fenton History Center, SUNY Fredonia History Department: Dr. Nancy L. Hagedorn

Incorporating local resources cited in Day One.

PM groups summarizing key links between National & Local events.

Day 4  Manifest Destiny, Sectionalism, and Suffrage: Revolution in Texas, Mexican–American War, development of third parties, popular sovereignty, Compromise of 1850, Kansas–Nebraska Act, Election of 1856, Dred Scott, John Brown, Lincoln–Douglas debates, Harper’s Ferry, Election of 1860, secession & the beginnings of the Civil War.

Chautauqua County Historian, Fenton History Center, SUNY Fredonia History Department  Dr. Nancy L. Hagedorn and Dr. Allida Black, George Washington University

Incorporating local resources cited in Day One.

Afternoon group work summarizing links between National and Local events.

Day 5  The American Civil War and Reforging the Union: Social mores of the Old South, economic development in the Old South; advantages and disadvantages of the U.S. and the Confederacy; military technology; social aspects of the Civil War, Reconstruction Amendments; mobilization and domestic issues and policies during the war; social, economic, and political impact of the war; Reconstruction plans economic development of the “New South”; home rule; Compromise of 1877; Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. DuBois; sharecropping and tenant farming.

Dr. Paul Finkleman, Albany Law School

Chautauqua County Historical Society

Chautauqua County Historian, Michelle Henry,

SUNY Fredonia History Department Dr. Mary Beth Sievens

Incorporating local resources cited in Day One.

PM groups summarizing links between National & Local events.

Day 6  The Trans-Mississippi West, American Industrialization, the Gilded Age, and the Advent of Urban and Rural America during the Gilded Age: American wars, Dawes Act, Reservation System, the Robber Barons: methods, accomplishments, and philosophies, the rise of labor unions the Pendleton Act, the GAR, William Jennings Bryan, Populist Party, the Grange, gold standard vs. silver standard.

Chautauqua County Historical Society

Chautauqua County Historian, Michelle Henry, Fenton History Center, SUNY Fredonia History Department Dr. Ellen Litwicki

Incorporating local resources cited in Day One.

PM groups summarizing links between National & Local events.

Day 7  American Progressives and American Foreign Policy: Local and state progressive reforms, national progressivism plans and programs; The Square Deal, New Freedom, muckrakers, women’s issues, consumer protection, political corruption, environmental protection, business and labor issues, American imperialism, long-term causes for American imperialism, causes and results of the Spanish-American War, neutrality during World War I, causes of American entry into WWI, Wilson’s 14 points, negotiations of the Treaty of Versailles, conflict between Wilson and Congress over the treaty, and the League of Nations. 

Chautauqua County Historical Society

Chautauqua County Historian, Michelle Henry

Fenton History Center

SUNY Fredonia History Department:  Dr. A. Jacqueline Swansinger, Dr. Philip Payne St. Bonaventure

Final product for the day a classroom vignette using a piece of local history related to a national event.  The end result will be published to OER outlets.