HU 444 - United States History

• Have an understanding of the development of sectional communities in its early colonial history
• Have an understanding of the sectional rivalry that erupts in the American Civil War
• Have an understanding of the expansion of federal power domestically since the end of the Civil War
• Have an understanding of the growing international role the United States has played since the end of the Civil War
• Have an understanding of the causes and effects of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and the two World Wars

• None 

• Origins of American colonial communities (3 classes)
• Colonial society in the 18th century (1 class)
• American Revolution (1 class)
• Constitution and Early Republic (3 classes)
• Origins and consequences of sectional issues (3 classes)
• Development of the Second America Party System (1 class)
• Civil War (1 class)
• Reconstruction (1 class)
• Gilded Age (1 class)
• International events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (2 classes)
• Progressive Age (1 class)
• New Deal (1 class)
• America in World War II (1 class)
• The Early Cold War (1 class)
• The 1960s and Vietnam (1 class)
• America since the 1970s (1 class)