HIS121 - United States History II

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will examine American History from Reconstruction to the present.  3 credits.

TOPICS COVERED:

• Reconstruction & The New South

• The West, 1865-1900

• Industrial Expansion & Social Change

• Gilded Age Politics & Populism

• The Progressive Era

• World War I

• The 1920s-The New Era

• The Great Depression & New Deal

• World War II

• The Cold War & Vietnam

• Suburbia

• The Civil Rights Movement

• From the Great Society to Reagan