Course Outline

• Introduction- Day One
• Welcome
• Course Outline
• Rules and expectations 
• Get To Know You
• Project outline
• Key Terms
• Fast Facts
• Where and What
• Getting Started On My Project
• Pre-Colonial & Colonial Period
• Primary source: 
• Saltville Style Gorget 
• Fast Facts
• Pre-historic Indians
• Spanish exploration
• Walker Expedition
• Digging Deeper
• Pre-historic Indians
• Following animal herds to salt marshes
• Spanish exploration into area around Saltville
• Exploring for “Three G’s”: Gold, God Glory
• Walker Expedition
• Exploring for resources: Timber, Salt
• Early settling
• Idea: Look for independence from debt, for religious freedom, (early Methodist)
• Homework: 
• Switching perspectives

• Frontier Life and The Overmountain Men- Day Two
• Homework Review
• Primary Source: 
• The Killing Of Chief Benge And The Recapture of White Captives
• Early Appalachians Video
• Structure of Cherokee Indians
• Superstructure of Cherokee Indians
• Infrastructure of Cherokee Indians
• Fast Facts 
• Tobias Smyth Cabin and Early Frontier Cabins
• Design, purpose, dangers
• Frontier Life
• Basic needs, diet
• Frontier Forts
• Protection from Indian attacks
• The Overmountain Men and The Battle Of King's Mountain
• Abingdon Muster
• Day Two Assessment 
• 3,2,1
• Homework: 
• Compare and contrast your life to settler's
• Time to work on group project

• Civil War Period- Day Three
• Review
• Fast Facts
• Slavery in Southwest Virginia
• Impact of war on Emory & Henry College
• The Battle of Saltville
• Civil War Medicine
• Digging Deeper
• Slavery in Southwest Virginia
• Most slaverholders had small holdings
• Rented slaves out to larger holders
• Non-agriculture uses
• Worked beside slaves in used on farm
• Impact of war on Emory & Henry College
• Brother against Brother: Campus split in half: 
• J.E.B Stuart-  E&H alumni
• The Battle of Saltville
• Brother against Brother: Kentucky units from same area
• Champ Ferguson
• Photo study on Civil War Medicine
• Highlighting use of Emory & Henry Campus as a hospital
• Time to work on group projects

• Industrial Period- Day Four
• Primary source reading on industrial Saltville
• Tennessee Erinie Ford- “Owe My Soul to the Company Store” Questions and discussion
• Fast Facts 
• Person: Hob Smith- musician and factory worker
• Brief assessment of Civil War Period
• Time to complete group project

• Presentations of Group Projects- Day Five