US History SNC 1876 Topics
- American Experiment: Confederation vs. Federation
Creation of the New Government, 1781-1789
Failure of the Constitution, 1800-1865
Abraham Lincoln, [September 16-17, 1859] (Notes for Speech in Kansas and Ohio)
Jefferson Davis’ Farewell Address Senate Chamber, U.S. Capitol, January 21, 1861
Alexander H. Stephens, “Corner Stone” Speech, Savannah, Georgia, March 21, 1861
Reconstruction, 1865-1876
- How the West was Won
Indian Wars
Transcontinental Railroads
Farming
- Urban Economic Change
Second Industrial Revolution
New Corporate Work Place
Scientific Management
- Urbanization
Electricity
Urban Population
Responses to Urbanization
- What is the Proper Role of Government in the Economy
Laissez-Faire
Populism
Progressivism
- Imperialism: America’s Transformation into a Great Power
Caribbean
Pacific
Latin America
Exam 1
- “Negro Problem”: Homer Plessy, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois
Homer Plessy
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
- The US Role in World War One
A European War
American Response to War in Europe
US Involvement
- The Return to “Normalcy” in the 1920s
Foreign Policy
Government
Cosmology
- The New Deal and the Transformation of American Government
The Election of 1932
First New Deal
Second New Deal
- US Foreign Policy between the Wars, 1930s
European Totalitarianism
Events in Europe
Events in Asia
Exam 2
- Cold War
Post War Settlement
Domestic Ramifications
Proxy Wars
- The Post-War Boom And The “Great Society”, 1945-1969
Post-War Boom
Consensus Politics
“Great Society”
- The “Negro Problem” Revisited
Thurgood Marshall
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
- The Destruction of Consensus Politics and the Conservative Revolution
Richard Nixon
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
- Blowback: The Origins of 9-11
Afghanistan
Iraq
Saudi Arabia