This course examines the important figures, events, and themes in the history of the United States from 1800 until the end of World War One. It examines themes and events such as the formation of political parties, slavery, immigration, westward expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Industrial Revolution, urbanization, segregation, immigration, and imperialism. The course will highlight a number of issues widely debated in the 19th Century, especially after the Civil War, which remain relevant today.
Prerequisites
None
1. Identify important people, developments, and ideas that have shaped American history through the 19th century to the end of World War One and its aftermath.
2. Explain how ideas about democracy, freedom, and individualism found expression in the development of cultural values and institutions.
3. Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions and party systems developed and changed.
4. Explain how different labor systems developed, and explain their effects on worker’s lives and U.S. society.
5. Explain how different group identities, including racial, ethnic, class, region, and religion have emerged and changed over time.
6. Explain the causes of migration to the United States and analyze immigration’s effects on society.
7. Analyze the reasons for and results of U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military initiatives in North America and overseas.
8. Identify and articulate parallels between challenges of the past and the issues of today.
9. Analyze, synthesize, and present information and knowledge pertaining to American history.
10. Demonstrate communication skills, both written and oral, by employing primary evidence in support of carefully formed conclusions regarding the historical record of the American past.
PO4: Students will be able to recognize or articulate personal/interpersonal aspects of, or connections between, diverse cultural, social, or political contexts.
- 1st Presidents and the “Second American Revolution” (1796-1815)
- The Early American Marketplace and Early Immigration (1810—1840)
- Nationalism, Sectionalism, and the Rise of Jackson (1815-1840)
- Slavery and the South
- Native Americans and America in the Early 19th Century
- The Age of Reform, Anti-slavery, and Women’s Movements (1820-1860)
- The Westward Movement, Latino Americans, and Slave Politics (1840-1860)
- The Civil War (1861-1865)
- Reconstruction (1863-1877)
- The Gilded Age: the New West, Immigration, Populism, and the rise of Industry (1870-1896)
- The Progressive Era: Imperialism, Segregation, Reforms, and World War I (1900-1920)