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- U.S. HISTORY COURSEU.S. HISTORY COURSE
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- The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492The Americas, Europe, and Africa Before 1492
- Locate on a map the major American civilizations before the arrival of the Spanish
- Discuss the cultural achievements of these civilizations
- Discuss the differences and similarities between lifestyles, religious practices, and customs among the native peoples
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- Describe the European societies that engaged in conversion, conquest, and commerce
- Discuss the motives for and mechanisms of early European exploration
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- Locate the major West African empires on a map
- Discuss the roles of Islam and Europe in the slave trade
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- The Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492 - Final AssessmentThe Americas, Europe, and Africa before 1492 - Final Assessment
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- Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650Early Globalization: The Atlantic World, 1492–1650
2.1. Portuguese Exploration and Spanish Conquest2.2. Religious Upheavals in the Developing Atlantic World2.3. Challenges to Spain’s Supremacy2.4. New Worlds in the Americas: Labor, Commerce, and the Columbian ExchangeFinal Assessment - Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700Creating New Social Orders: Colonial Societies, 1500–1700
3.1. Spanish Exploration and Colonial Society
3.2. Colonial Rivalries: Dutch and French Colonial Ambitions
3.3. English Settlements in America
3.4. The Impact of ColonizationFinal Assessment
- Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763Rule Britannia! The English Empire, 1660–1763
4.1. Charles II and the Restoration Colonies
4.2. The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire
4.3. An Empire of Slavery and the Consumer Revolution
4.4. Great Awakening and Enlightenment
4.5. Wars for EmpireFinal Assessment
- Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774Imperial Reforms and Colonial Protests, 1763-1774
5.1. Confronting the National Debt: The Aftermath of the French and Indian War
5.2. The Stamp Act and the Sons and Daughters of Liberty
5.3. The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
5.4. The Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts
5.5. Disaffection: The First Continental Congress and American Identity
Final Assessment - America's War for Independence, 1775-1783America's War for Independence, 1775-1783
6.1. Britain’s Law-and-Order Strategy and Its Consequences
6.2. The Early Years of the Revolution
6.3. War in the South
6.4. Identity during the American Revolution
Final Assessment - Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790Creating Republican Governments, 1776–1790
7.1. Common Sense: From Monarchy to an American Republic
7.2. How Much Revolutionary Change?
7.3. Debating Democracy
7.4. The Constitutional Convention and Federal Constitution
Final Assessment - Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790–1820
8.1. Competing Visions: Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
8.2. The New American Republic
8.3. Partisan Politics
8.4. The United States Goes Back to War
Final Assessment - Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850Industrial Transformation in the North, 1800–1850
9.1. Early Industrialization in the Northeast
9.2. A Vibrant Capitalist Republic
9.3. On the Move: The Transportation Revolution
9.4. A New Social Order: Class Divisions
Final Assessment - Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840Jacksonian Democracy, 1820–1840
10.1. A New Political Style: From John Quincy Adams to Andrew Jackson
10.2. The Rise of American Democracy
10.3. The Nullification Crisis and the Bank War
10.4. Indian Removal
10.5. The Tyranny and Triumph of the Majority
Final Assessment - A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860A Nation on the Move: Westward Expansion, 1800–1860
11.1. Lewis and Clark
11.2. The Missouri Crisis
11.3. Independence for Texas
11.4. The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848
11.5. Free Soil or Slave? The Dilemma of the West
Final Assessment - Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800–1860
12.1. The Economics of Cotton
12.2. African Americans in the Antebellum United States
12.3. Wealth and Culture in the South
12.4. The Filibuster and the Quest for New Slave States
Final Assessment - Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses, 1820–1860
13.1. An Awakening of Religion and Individualism
13.2. Antebellum Communal Experiments
13.3. Reforms to Human Health
13.4. Addressing Slavery
13.5. Women’s Rights
Final Assessment - Troubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850sTroubled Times: the Tumultuous 1850s
14.1. The Compromise of 1850
14.2. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Republican Party
14.3. The Dred Scott Decision and Sectional Strife
14.4. John Brown and the Election of 1860
Final Assessment - The Civil War, 1860–1865The Civil War, 1860–1865
15.1. The Origins and Outbreak of the Civil War
15.2. Early Mobilization and War
15.3. 1863: The Changing Nature of the War
15.4. The Union Triumphant
Final Assessment - The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877
16.1. Restoring the Union
16.2. Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866
16.3. Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872
16.4. The Collapse of Reconstruction
Final Assessment - Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900
17.1. The Westward Spirit
17.2. Homesteading: Dreams and Realities
17.3. Making a Living in Gold and Cattle
17.4. The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture
17.5. The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
Final Assessment - Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
18.1. Inventors of the Age
18.2. From Invention to Industrial Growth
18.3. Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
18.4. A New American Consumer Culture
Final Assessment - The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900
19.1. Urbanization and Its Challenges
19.2. The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
19.3. Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
19.4. Change Reflected in Thought and Writing
Final Assessment - Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900
20.1. Political Corruption in Postbellum America
20.2. The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
20.3. Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era
20.4. Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s
Final Assessment - Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920
21.1. The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America
21.2. Progressivism at the Grassroots Level
21.3. New Voices for Women and African Americans
21.4. Progressivism in the White House
Final Assessment - Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914
22.1. Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire
22.2. The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire
22.3. Economic Imperialism in East Asia
22.4. Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” Foreign Policy
22.5. Taft’s “Dollar Diplomacy”
Final Assessment - Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919
23.1. American Isolationism and the European Origins of War
23.2. The United States Prepares for War
23.3. A New Home Front
23.4. From War to Peace
23.5. Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath
Final Assessment - The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929The Jazz Age: Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929
24.1. Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment
24.2. Transformation and Backlash
24.3. A New Generation
24.4. Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s
Final Assessment - Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932
25.1. The Stock Market Crash of 1929
25.2. President Hoover’s Response
25.3. The Depths of the Great Depression
25.4. Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal
Final Assessment - Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941
26.1. The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt
26.2. The First New Deal
26.3. The Second New Deal
Final Assessment - Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945
27.1. The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States
27.2. The Home Front
27.3. Victory in the European Theater
27.4. The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb
Final Assessment - Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960
28.1. The Challenges of Peacetime
28.2. The Cold War
28.3. The American Dream
28.4. Popular Culture and Mass Media
28.5. The African American Struggle for Civil Rights
Final Assessment - Contesting Futures: America in the 1960sContesting Futures: America in the 1960s
29.1. The Kennedy Promise
29.2. Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
29.3. The Civil Rights Movement Marches On
29.4. Challenging the Status Quo
Final Assessment - Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980
30.1. Identity Politics in a Fractured Society
30.2. Coming Apart, Coming Together
30.3. Vietnam: The Downward Spiral
30.4. Watergate: Nixon’s Domestic Nightmare
30.5. Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm
Final Assessment - From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000
31.1. The Reagan Revolution
31.2. Political and Cultural Fusions
31.3. A New World Order
31.4. Bill Clinton and the New Economy
Final Assessment - The Challenges of the Twenty-First CenturyThe Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
32.1. The War on Terror
32.2. The Domestic Mission
32.3. New Century, Old Disputes
32.4. Hope and Change
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