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HIST 201 - US History: Beginnings to 1877

(3,0) 3 Credits
General Education Course: Humanities-History
Prerequisite(s): and Corequisite:  Placement into ENGL 111 English Composition I  with ENGL 070 English Composition I Workshop  , or higher.
This class surveys American history beginning with its Pre-Columbian origins. It extends to the colonial period and then to the Atlantic World forces that caused revolution. The course continues with the tensions inherent in a nation divided by region and vision for the future. It ends with the climax of conflict that was the Civil War, and the Reconstruction in its wake that left unsettled the issue of civil rights. This course places U.S. history in a global context. In doing so, it examines the complex ways in which the contours of the American experience have been both shaped by global forces and conversely, how the United States has influenced the world. Moreover, the course investigates the expansion and contraction of democracy as part of the longer-term process of global revolutionary movements demanding freedom that began, but was not fully realized, with its own revolution. Finally, this course examines social movements and the social, political, cultural, and economic forces that have shaped the United States from the pre-colonial Indigenous North America through the post-Civil War period of Reconstruction.


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