HST/165
U. S. History 1865 to 1945
Online
Format
$1194
Estimated Tuition
3 credits
Total credits
5 weeks
Course length
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Course level: Undergraduate
This course provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and global events affecting U.S. history from the Civil War through World War II.
Prerequisites
None
What you'll learn
Course skills and outcomes
Reconstruction and the West
- Evaluate the outcomes of Reconstruction.
- Summarize the economic, political, and social characteristics of the New South.
- Describe the effect of western expansion and development on Native Americans.
- Explain the populist response to late 19th-century development.
Industrialization and Progressivism
- Describe the economic, political, and social influence of industrialization on America.
- Explain the rise of Labor in response to factory conditions.
- Connect industrialization to urbanization and immigration during the Gilded Age and
- Progressive Era.
- Describe the effects of Progressivism on American society in the early 20th century.
Imperialism and the Great War
- Summarize American imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Identify the relationship between military events and outcomes of the Spanish-American War.
- Examine the causes and results of American involvement in World War I.
The Jazz Age, Great Depression, and New Deal
- Trace the rise of consumerism in America during the 1920s.
- Identify social trends of the 1920s and their contributions to modern America.
- Explain the underlying causes of the Great Depression.
- Compare the responses of Hoover and Roosevelt to the economic crisis.
- Summarize the economic, political, and social characteristics of the New Deal.
World War II
- Identify the causes for American involvement in WW II.
- Discuss the economic, political and social characteristics of the American home front during WW II.
- Describe the military course of WW II across both Europe and the Pacific.
- Analyze Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb.
