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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Locate on maps the different regions of the US and areas of the world where the US intervenes during this time period.
2. Recognize the unique contributions and experiences of women, African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants during this time period.
3. Analyze how race, gender, class, and ethnicity have been factors in the United States at this time.
4. Compare and contrast differing opinions on critical historical developments and distinguish between fact and myth.
5. Demonstrate critical thinking through analysis of historical events and a variety of primary and secondary sources.
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I. Reconstruction
A. Presidential Reconstruction
B. Radical Reconstruction
1. Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
2. Freedmens' Bureau
3. Election of 1877 and the End of Reconstruction
C. Segregation Re-instated
1. Violence
2. Legal segregation: Plessy v. Ferguson
3. Sharecropping and Disenfranchisement
II. The West
A. Reservations
1. Forced Removal
2. Assimilation
B. Chinese Immigration
III. Industrialization and the Corporation
A. Gilded Age
B. European Immigration
C. Unionization
D. Populism
IV. Imperialism
A. Hawaii
B. Spanish American War
V. Progressivism - Challenge to Social Darwinism
A. Women's challenges
1. Settlement houses
2. Women's clubs
3. Suffrage
B. African American Challenges
1. Anti-lynching Movement
2. DuBois and Washington
VI. World War I
A. Competition in Europe and the Balance of Power
B. US Involvement
1. Committee for Public Information (CPI)
2. Armistice
3. Treaty of Versailles
C. U.S. Post-war isolation
VII. 1920s
A. Economic Boom
B. Jazz Age
C. Red Scare
D. Causes of the Great Depression
VIII. The Great Depression
A. Immediate Effects
B. Hoover's Response
IX. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal
A. Relief
B. Reform
X. World War II
A. Rise of Fascism in Europe and Asia
B. US Role in Europe and Asia
XI.Cold War
A. Growing Tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union
B. Containment
C. Domestic Policies
XII. The Fifties
A. Economic Growth
B. The Suburbs
C. Consumerism
XIII. Civil Rights Movement
A. Effects of WW II
B. Brown v. Board of Education
C. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committeee (SNCC)
D. Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965
E. Radical Voices
F. Other Liberation Movements
1. Women
2. Latinos
3. Native Americans
4. Gay Rights
XIV. Cold War in the 1960s
A. Cuba
1. Bay of Pigs Crisis
2. Cuban Missile Crisis
B. Vietnam
1. France's Role
2. Gulf of Tonkin
3. Credibility Gap
4. Counterculture and Anti-War Movement
5. Backlash of 1968
6. Nixon and the Silent Majority
XV. 1970s
A. Watergate
B. Energy Crisis
C. Environmentalism
D. Iranian Hostage Crisis
XVI. 1980s
A. Reagan and Reaganomics
B. The Rise of the Religious Right
C. Fall of Soviet Union
XVII. 1990s and Beyond
A. Gulf War I
B. Rodney King Riots
C. Clinton Administration
D. Third Wave of Feminism
E. Latino Immigration
F. 9/11
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1. Regular attendance and extensive notetaking in class is expected
2. Read 1-2 chapters in text and anthologies per week
3. 6-10 pages of out-of-class writing will be assigned over the semester. These assignments
may be reaction papers, analytical essays, or research papers. The assignments
will critically and historically interpret primary and secondary sources.
4. 0-3 quizzes
5. An in-class blue book midterm and final
6. Participation in discussion as directed by instructor
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
30 - 50% |
| Analytical, expository essays, reviews, research papers including primary and secondary sources | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 0% |
| None | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
40 - 70% |
| Essay and multple-choice exams | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 10% |
| Attendance and participation | |
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America: A Concise History, vol. 2, 4th ed. Henretta, James A., et al. Bedford St.Martins: 2010
American Passages, 4th ed. Ayers, Edward L., et al. Harcourt College Publishers: 2006
Unfinished Nation, vol. 2, 5th ed. Brinkley, Alan. McGraw Hill: 2008
The Feminine Mystique. Betty Frieden. Norton & Co: 2001 (classic)
A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynchings in the United States, 1892-1893-1894. Wells, Ida B. Chicago: 1895 (Classic)
