History: 012 - Montano - U.S. History II (1876 - present)

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• 19th Century Reconstruction and Westward Expansion (1860-80)
• U.S. territorial expansion
• Civil War
• North vs South
• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
•  Reconstruction Policies of A. Lincoln, A. Johnson, and the Radical Republicans
• Emancipation on African Americans, including sharecropping 
• Reconstruction governments
• 1877 Compromise
• 19th Century Westward
• Transcontinental railroad
• Admission of western states into the Union
• 19th Century westward expansion on the environment and on Native American populations
• America’s Age of Industry & Reform (1880-1920)
• U.S. corporate development
• Capitalism
• Socialism
• Anarchism
• Union movement
• Governmental determinants of laissez-faire
• Immigrants into the U.S. and discuss their contribution to the growth of urban culture and American culture at large
• Urban tensions based on status, ethnicity, and race
• American constitutional development in light of Populism and Progressivism
• Progressivism’s effect on women and African Americans 

Conservative and liberal sides of Progressivism on the local, state and national levels Global Involvements, the Great Depression, a New Deal (1890-1945) 1- Describe the relationship between corporate capitalism and global imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific 2- Compare European interests leading to World War I with U.S. interests 3- Evaluate the impact of World War I on American society and its economy 4- Identify the resurgence of conservatism in the 1920s in terms of religion, ethnicity and race 5- Examine the causes of the Great Depression, the effectiveness of the New Deal and modern government today The U.S. as Superpower (1945 – present) 1- How does World War II transform the United States? 2- The Cold War and mini ‘hot’ wars 3- The Cold War & Its Aftermath 4- Liberalism Reborn and the Civil Rights Era 5- Presidential Power in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries…Imperial Power? 6- American Conservatism Reborn 6- The 21st Century, a Warmongering Nation, Terrorism, and a New Realignment 7- ‘Hope & Change’ Via Barack Obama 8- The Trump Years