Master
Course Outline
US
History Fall Semester - 2002
* 10 Birth of the US
* 15 Ethnicity and Race before 1945
* 10 - American Foreign Policy to 1945
* 14 Economic History of the US before 1945
* 10 The A-Bomb, the 1950s, and the Cold War
* 10 The Civil Rights Movements; 1960s & 70s
* 10 The Reagan Revolution and the World
Superpower in the 1980s and 1990s
* 4
Review and Final
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88 days
Geography of the US
Basics of Pre-Columbian Native American societies
City on a Hill as a foundation myth
The 3 colonial regions and basic colonial
lifestyles
Causes of the Revolution
Economics of colonialism
The Declaration of Independence
Military history of the war
The Spanish US
Economic and social history of slavery
Frontier expansion, geography and timeline
Indian cultures and wars
Immigration and the definition of White
Lead-up to the Civil War
Military history of the war, reverberating effects
The Emancipation Proclamation
Social and economic impact of the war
Post-Civil War Constitutional Amendments
African-American transitions in Reconstruction
The Slaves sold-out, rise of Jim Crow
American Foreign
Policy to 1945 10 days
Manifest Destiny as a foreign policy (remember the
Iroquois)
Doctrines and policies
History and geography of US imperialism
Anti-foreign-radicalism in the US
Pacifism in the US
WWI and the rise of a great power
The Mexican-American War
Mexican-Americans in the Southwest
The eradication of cowboys and Indians
Insecurity of world leadership and Wilsonianism
US foreign policy and Pearl Harbor
US military contribution to WWII
Japanese Internment
Economic change in the early US
Democracy in American and the Yeoman Farmer Myth
Carpet-bagging and Northern domination
The Industrial Revolution in the US
Taylorism and social history of factory life
Progressive political radicalism in the US
The Progressive movement
Booms and busts in US economic history
Rise of commercial culture
Urbanization of America
Overproduction, inventory control, and economic
clouds
The Great Depression
Dust Bowl and the social history of the Depression
Roosevelt and the New Deal
Rise of US labor
Cultural outpouring between the wars
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Burdens of a competitive super-power
Korea and anti-Soviet leadership
Space and arms races
Balance of Power, Cold War timeline
US anti-communism
Social conformism in the 50s
Ozzie and Harriet nation, rise of television
GI bill, economic growth, and Eisenhower
African American socio-economic surge
Tripping towards Viet Nam
The African-American freedom struggle (a unit of
its own?)
Rise of the counter-culture
Drug use in the US
The baby-boomers
Vietnam War and protest
Cultural Revolution
Nixon and Watergate
Oil Crisis, Carter, and Iran
The Reagan Revolution, rise of conservatism
Economic change in the 80s
End of the Cold War
Troubles of a uni-polar superpower