HST 1014 - United States History II

• Associate the protection of African Americans with the presence of the federal government
• Examine the patterns of settlement on the advancing western frontier, involving both immigrants and Native Americans
• Explore how the frontier relaxed social norms and allowed women greater freedom and financial opportunities
• Identify how government is both partner to business and a protection from its capitalistic demands
• Describe the growth of cities and recognize the role of technological innovation in that growth
• Examine the immigrant experience: European, Asian, African, and Central and South American, in both urban and rural settings
• Identify the intentions behind U.S. involvement in war: imperialism, alliances, self-protection
• Connect the rise in social movements to changes in government and culture
• Interpret the impact of mass media
• Examine the rise of technology in personal communication, business, and medicine

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• The era of Reconstruction
• Westward expansion
• Industrialization and the rise of big business
• The growing pains of urbanization
• Politics in the gilded age
• The progressive movement
• Age of Empire: American foreign policy
• Americans and the Great War
• The Jazz Age: Redefining the nation
• The Great Depression
• Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal
• World War II
• Post-War prosperity and Cold War fears
• The civil rights movement
• Vietnam and the anti-war movement
• Watergate and the power of the presidency
• The Iranian Hostage Crisis and the rise of tensions in the Middle East
• Reaganomics
• The first Gulf War
• The rise of computer technology in business, medicine, and personal communication