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Course Information

• Course Overview
• Rules and Expectations
• Grading Policies

c. 1492-1783

Colonization

• ​Early Colonization
• Southern Colonies
• New England Colonies
• Middle Colonies
• Old-New World Relations

​​Revolution

• Towards Independence
• The War of Independence

c. 1783-1815

Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation
• The US Constitution

The Federalist Period

• Washington
• Adams
• Jefferson
• Madison

c. 1815-1849

Expansion and Reform

• Industrial Revolution
• Era of Good Feelings
• Jacksonian Democracy
• Reform Movements
• Westward Expansion

c. 1850-1877

Civil War

• Civil Crisis
• Civil War

Reconstruction

• Reconstruction

c. 1865-1890

The Western Frontier

• Native Americans
• Western Settlers
• Populism

​​The Gilded Age

• ​Industrial Growth
• Labor Movements
• Urban Growth
• Political Corruption
• Jim Crow
• The Start of the 20th Century

c. 1890-1920

Progressivism

• Muckrakers
• ​The Progressive Movement

​​Imperialism & the First World War

• Becoming a Pacific Power
• The Spanish-American War
• Big Stick Diplomacy
• The Great War Before US Entry
• America in the Great War
• The Treaty of Versailles

c. 1920-1941

The Roaring Twenties​

• Politics of the 1920s
• Society of the 1920s
• ​The Harlem Renaissance

The Great Depression

• The Great Depression
• The New Deal

c. 1941-1961

The Second World War​​

• WWII Before American Entry
• After Pearl Harbor​

​The Early Cold War 

• The Truman Doctrine
• Brinkmanship
• Duck and Cover
• The Suburbs

c. 1950-1975

The Great Society​

• JFK and LBJ
• ​The Civil Rights Movement

​​The Vietnam War Era

• The Vietnam War
• Vietnamization
• ​The Counterculture

c. 1968-1991

The Late Cold War​

• The Nixon and Ford Eras
• The Carter Era
• ​The Reagan Era

Pop Culture

• ​Pop Culture of the 1960s-1990s

c. 1991-NOW

The Culture Wars​

• Bush 41
• The Clinton Era
• The Bush 43 and Obama Eras
• ​American Carnage

​​The War on Terror

• ​The War on Terror