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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)

Declaration Of The Immediate Causes Which Induce And Justify The Secession Of South Carolina From The Federal Union

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