Advanced American History

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    When old worlds collide: contact, conquest, catastrophe.
    The challenge to spain and the settlement of north america.
    England discovers its colonies: empire, liberty, and expansion.
    Provincial america and the struggle for a continent.
    Reform, resistance, revolution.
    The revolutionary republic.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The democratic republic, 1790 and ndash;1820.
    Completing the revolution, 1789 and ndash;1815.
    The market revolution, 1815 and ndash;1860.
    Toward an american culture.
    Society, culture, and politics, 1820s and ndash;1840s.
    Jacksonian democracy.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Manifest destiny: an empire for liberty -- or slavery?
    The gathering tempest, 1853 and ndash;1860.
    Secession and civil war, 1860 and ndash;1862.
    A new birth of freedom, 1862 and ndash;1865.
    Reconstruction, 1863 and ndash;1877.
    Frontiers of change, politics of stalemate, 1865 and ndash;1890.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Economic change and the crisis of the 1890s.
    An industrial society, 1890 and ndash;1920.
    Progressivism.
    Becoming a world power, 1898 and ndash;1917.
    War and society, 1914 and ndash;1920.
    The 1920s.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    The great depression and the new deal, 1929 and ndash;1939.
    America during the second world war.
    The age of containment, 1946 and ndash;1953.
    Affluence and its discontents, 1953 and ndash;1963.
    America during its longest war, 1963 and ndash;1974.
    Economic and social change in the late 20th century.
    Power and politics since 1974.