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UNITED STATES HISTORY II

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES
Date Lecture
First Session Introduction and Objectives/Course Requirements
Reconstruction after the Civil War
Second Session The Rise of Big Business
Origins and Early Development of the American Labor Movement
Third Session Urbanization and Its Impact
Constructing the American Mosaic--Immigration
"Jim Crow" in the South
Fourth Session Politics in the Gilded Age
Agrarian Unrest and Populism's Politics of Protest
The Election of 1896
Fifth Session FIRST EXAMINATION
America's Emergence as a World Power
Sixth Session Adjustment and Response to Change--The Progressive Era
Seventh Session The Progressive Era (cont'd.)
America and World War I
Eighth Session Woodrow Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
Return to "Normalcy"
Ninth Session The "Roaring Twenties"
Tenth Session SECOND EXAMINATION
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Eleventh Session FDR and the New Deal (cont'd.)
Twelfth Session ESSAY DUE
Interwar Foreign Policy and America in World War II
Thirteenth Session Postwar Liberalism and the Origins of the Cold War
The 1950s--Eisenhower and Modern Republicanism
Fourteenth Session America and Vietnam
The Civil Rights Movement
Promises, Frustration and Change--The 1960s
Fifteenth Session FINAL EXAMINATION


SCHEDULE OF READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Date Readings/Assignments
First Session Chapter 16
Second Session Chapter 18
Chapter 22 (pp.658-679)
Third Session Chapter 19
Fourth Session Chapter 17
Chapter 20
Fifth Session FIRST EXAMINATION
Chapter 21
Sixth Session Chapter 23
Seventh Session Chapter 24
Eighth Session Chapter 22 (pp.679-687)
Chapter 25
Ninth Session Review Chapter 25
Chapter 26 (pp.778-792)
Tenth Session SECOND EXAMINATION
Chapter 26 (pp.792-816)
Eleventh Session Chapter 27
Twelfth Session ESSAY DUE
Thirteenth Session Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Fourteenth Session Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Fifteenth Session FINAL EXAMINATION

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