HIST& 147: US History II

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Class Program

History

Credits

Weekly Contact Hours

Course ID

091683

Meets Degree Requirements For

Diversity,

Social Science

Description

A survey of American history from the Reconstruction Era until the present. This course will emphasize the role of institutional racism, socio-economics, social and culture divergence, social trends, imperialism, demographics, and political transformations that have shaped the history of United States since 1865 to the present.

Grading Basis

Graded

Course Learning Outcomes

Learn critical thinking skills through reading and analyzing historical texts, literature, and sources.

Become familiar with the methods, terminology, and perspectives that historians use to approach the study of history

Demonstrate knowledge of important historical events, movements, ideas, and concepts.

Express and defend historical positions based upon primary or secondary research.

Identify the ways in which racism was institutionalized into the legislative, economic, and societal functions of the United States.

Become critical thinkers in terms of race, gender, socioeconomics, and political ideology.

Understand that history is not simply a matter of preventing mistakes from the past, but is a qualitative study that encompasses empathy, analysis, creativity, and cultural awareness.

Core Topics

Reconstruction
1. Definition of Freedom
2. Black codes (introduce KKK)
3. Republican Reconstruction
Imperialism
1. Continued Native American decimation
2. Broken Treaties
3. Indian Schools
4. Dawes Act
5. Wounded Knee
6. Mexicans—Creation of illegal
7. Chinese—Page and Chinese Exclusion Act
Titans of Industry
1. Steel, Railroads, Oil
2. Systemic inequality
3. Social Darwinism
4. Monopolies
Systemic Racism
1. Jim Crow Evolution (ante-bellum—to Black Codes)
2. Plessy vs. Ferguson (Legal Racial Segregation
3. Segregation from education to housing
4. Birth and institutionalization of KKK
Workers begin a movement
1. Farmers Alliance—Grange Movement-Populists
2. Labor Wars (socio-economic)
3. Laisse-Faire
4. Economic Depression
5. Individualism
6. Progressivism
7. Feminist Activism (Hull House & WTUL)
8. Prohibition
1920s
1. Jazz Music
2. Organized Crime
3. Flapper
4. Xenophobia and Nativism (Johnson-Reed)
5. Sacco and Vanzetti (nativism)
6. Second wave KKK
7. Science vs. Creationism
8. Economy (Margin Trading)
Great Depression
1. Scapegoating Mexicans—rationalizing mass deportation.
2. New Deal
3. Second New Deal
4. CCC—segregation within
Isolationism and WWII
1. Nazi thinking/ideology based on U.S. theorists/”intellectuals”
Post-WWII Capitalism vs. Communism
1. Effects on the Third World (Iran, Guatemala, Korea, Vietnam, and Cuba)
Movement Decade
1. Kennedy and the Best and Brightest
2. New Frontier/New Generation
3. Foreign Policy with Russia—Cuba and Southeast Asia
4. Participatory Democracy
5. African American Movement
6. SDS & Free Speech Movement
7. Chicano/a Movement
8. Feminine Mystique
9. Stone Wall (Gay and Lesbian Movement)
10. American Indian Movement
Nixon
1. An appeal to racism: Silent Majority
2. Cambodia and Laos (Kent State)
3. Vietnamization
4. Plumbers/CREEP
5. Oil Embargo
6. Caught