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U. S. HISTORY SINCE 1865
HIST 203
Spring 2017
United States History is filled with vivid images. These are just four images of United States History since the
ending of the Civil War: racist whites lynching 3 African American circus workers in Duluth, Minnesota, in
1920; the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the a young “warrior” in the venomous culture
war exercising first amendment rights, and a recent means of "sanitizing" war.
Edward R. Crowther, Ph. D.
MCD 374
Office Hours: 10:00 MW; 9:30:11:00TTH and by appointment
719-587-7466
Course Description: This course examines the major thrusts, events, peoples, and phenomena
that have shaped the United States since the end of the Civil War.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Student Learning Outcomes
Relevant Program Goals
Assessment Measures
Define and analyze key terms,
ideas, and concepts of United
1,2, 3, 4
Identification items and essay
questions on formal tests.
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States History from the end of
the Civil War to the present.
Demonstrate an understanding
of the interplay of terms,
ideas, and concepts relating to
United States History from the
end of the Civil War to the
Present.
Examine, appraise, and
contribute to selected
scholarly debate about key
terms, ideas, and/or concepts
in United States History from
Pre-Colombian times to 1865.
1,2, 3, 4
1,2, 3, 4
(click here to view unit essay
questions.)
Formal exams and monograph
essays.
Formal Exams and monograph
essays.
In addition, the professor expects that each student will attend all class meetings and, having read thoroughly the
assigned readings, participate actively in the class discussion. Students will be introduced to dyads, resolana groups,
and class reflections. Students are expected to participate in these activities and to be respectful of one another's
points-of-views, ideas, and feelings. To facilitate discussion, students should bring the text under discussion to class.
HAPPSS Program Goals:
Students may be taking this course for a variety of reasons. Majors and minors are taking the
course, most likely, to fulfill program requirements. Below are the program goals for the
HAPPSS department.
Goal 1. To provide effective educational programs in degree area and disciplines represented
by the department
Goal 2. To promote student learning in discrete courses, minor, emphasis, and degree programs.
Goal 3. To produce graduates who attain employment as Social Studies Teachers or other
professional employment and/or gain admission to Law and Graduate Schools.
Goal 4. To support the general studies program with effective general studies offerings
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but I would encourage you to do so.
Course Syllabus:
Base Text: Tindall, Shi, America: A Narrative History, 8th edition. Additional Texts: Moye, Ella
Baker; Strum, Menendez v. Westminster.
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Unit One: Emergence of the United States as a Global Power: Reconstruction,
Industrialization, Urbanization, Populism, U. S. ascent to a world power, Progressivism, WWI
Readings: Tindall chapters 17-24. (Reconstruction powerpoint) (Big Business/Organized Labor)
(New South/New West powerpoint) (Urban U. S.) (Gilded Age Politics) (American Empire)
(Progressivism) (World War I)
UNIT ONE TEST: February 16
Unit Two: Crises both Domestic and Foreign: the Twenties, the Depression and New Deal,
WWII. Cold War, Truman.;
Readings: Tindall chapters 25-29. (1920s powerpoint), (Politics of Normalcy) (New Deal )
(1930s Foreign Policy) (WW II powerpoint) (Truman and the Crisis of Peace)
UNIT TWO TEST: March 30
Unit Three: Stresses and Strains of Hegemony and "Progress": Eisenhower, Civil Rights
Movement, Vietnam, the Age of Limits, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Terrorism.
Readings: Davidson chapters 30-34 (Post War Society and Culture) (Eisenhower Years) (1960s
Politics and Social Change) (Rebellion and Reaction) (Reagan and Bush) (The Best of Times)
COMPREHENSIVE FINAL EXAMINATION: Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at 3:00 p. m.
GRADE SCALE:
Test One
Test Two
Final
Monograph 1
Monograph 2
50 pts.
50 pts.
100 pts.
25 pts.
25 pts.
A
B
C
D
F
250-225
224-200
199-175
175-150
Below 150
To assist you in your reading, I have attached a list of key terms from the chapters in the text. You will see these
again. You can access the menu for the possible essay questions by clicking here.
Terms:
Chapter 17. Reconstruction. Martin Delaney, Freedman’s Bureau, Lincoln’s Proclamation of
Amnesty and Reconstruction, Wade-Davis Bill, John Wilkes Booth, Andrew Johnson, Johnson’s
Proclamation of Amnesty [Presidential Reconstruction], black codes, Radical Republicans, Civil
Rights Act of 1866, Fourteenth Amendment, Congressional Reconstruction, Military
Reconstruction Act, Fifteenth Amendment, Mary McLeod Bethune, African American Political
Participation, “apostles of forgiveness”, Grant’s Presidency, Credit Mobilier Scanda, KKK,
Liberal Republicans, Panic of 1873, Compromise of 1877.
Chapter 18. Second Industrial Revolution, Pacific Railway Act, Jay Gould, Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Alva Edison, George Westinghouse, John David
Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan, Richard Sears, Alva Roebuck, Molly
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Maguires, Dennnis Kearney, Geary Act, Knights of Labor, Samuel Gompers, Pullman Strike,
Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones, IWW, Western Federation of Miners.
Chapter 19. New South. Henry Grady, Sharecroppers, Redeemers, Exodusters, Mining and the
Environment, Sand Creek Massacre, Great Sioux War, Ghost Dance, Dawes Severalty Act,
Joseph Glidden, Range Wars, James Oliver, Frederick Jackson Turner.
Chapter 20. Otis Elevator Company, “streetcar suburbs”, “sanitary reformers”, New
Immigration, Ellis Island, American Protective Association, Chinese Exclusion Act, Vaudeville,
Saloon Culture, Frederick Law Olmsted, Spectator Sports, Public Education, Charles Darwin,
Social Darwinism, Pragmatism, Reform Darwinism.
Chapter 21. Gilded Age, political machine, Tammany Hall, National Politics during the Gilded
Age, Rutherford B. Hayes, Stalwarts, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Mugwups, Grover
Cleveland, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Currency Issue, Granger Movement, Farmer’s Alliance,
People’s Party, Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1892 Populist Party Platform, 1892 Election, Coxey’s
Army, 1896 Presidential Election, William Jennings Bryan, William McKinley, Jim Crow Laws,
Mississippi Plan, Plessey v. Ferguson, Wilmington Insurrection, Ida B. Wells, Booker T.
Washington, W. E. B. DuBois.
Chapter 22. New Imperialism, Alfred Thayer Mahan, John Fiske, Acquisition of Alaska,
Liliuokalani, Hawaii Annexation, Spanish American War, Yellow Journalism, Teller
Amendment, George Dewey, Emilio Aguinaldo, American Anti-Imperialist League, Albert J.
Beveridge, Open Door policy, Big Stick Diplomacy, Panama Canal, Roosevelt Corollary to the
Monroe Doctrine, Root-Takahira Agreement, Algeciras Conference.
Chapter 23. Progressivism. Social Gospel, Jane Addams, WCTU, NWSA, “substantive due
process”, muckrakers, Direct Primaries, Initiative, Referendum, Recall, 17th Amendment,
Taylorism, Francis Elizabeth Willard, Florence Kelley, Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire,
Prohibition, Meat Inspection Act, Pure Foot and Drug Act, Gifford Pinchot, Pinchot-Ballinger
Affair, 16th Amendment, 1912 Election, Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Croly, UnderwoodSimmons Tariff, Federal Reserve Act, Progressivism for Whites Only, Alice Paul, 19th
Amendment, Margaret Sanger, Keating-Owen Act.
Chapter 24. Francisco Pancho Villa, Dollar Diplomacy, “freedom of the seas”, Lusitania,
Election of 1916, Zimmerman telegram, Food Administration, War Industries Board, Great
Migration, George Creel, Espionage Act, Sedition Act, Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Bolsheviks,
Fourteen Points, League of Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge, reparation, Spanish flu, Red Summer,
First Red Scare.
Chapter 25. Nativism, Sacco and Vanzetti, Immigration Act of 1924, Ku Klux Klan,
Fundamentalism, Scopes Trial, Prohibition, Jazz Age, Sigmund Freud, “new woman”, Great
Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Alain Locke, Marcus Garvey, NAACP, Consumer Culture,
Henry Ford, Babe Ruth, Harold “Red” Grange, Jack Dempsey, Albert Einstein, Modernism,
Amory Show, Gertrude Stein, “Lost Generation”.
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Chapter 26. Warren G. Harding, Andrew W. Mellon, Washington Naval Armaments Conference,
Kellog-Briand Pact, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, McNary-Haugen bill, open shop, welfare
capitalism, 1928 Election, buy stock “on margin”, stock market crash, Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Bonus Expeditionary Force, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Chapter 27. Hundred Days, First New Deal, AAA, “dust bowl”, NIRA, TVA, Okies, Minorities
and the New Deal, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, the Marx Brothers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Huey
P. Long, “sick chicken” case, Second New Deal, WPA, Wagner Act, Social Security Act,
Revenue Act of 1935, Court-Packing Plan, CIO, Fair Labor Standards Act, Martin Dies, Legacy
of the New Deal.
Chapter 28. Good Neighbor Policy, Neutrality Act of 1935, Neutrality Act of 1937, Ludlow
Amendment, Neutrality Act of 1939, National Defense Research Committee, America First
Committee, Arsenal of Democracy, Lend-Lease, Pearl Harbor, Atlantic Charter, Midway, War
Powers Act, War Production Board, Revenue Act of 1942, Office of Price Administration,
Women’s Army Corps, [Presidential Order 8802], Tuskegee Airmen, Double V, zoot-suit riots,
“code talkers”, Executive order 9066, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Casablanca Conference, Battle of
the Atlantic, Tehran Conference, Operation Overlord, Island Hopping, Battle of Leyte Gulf,
Bastogne, Yalta Conference, “final solution”, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima.
Chapter 29. Harry Truman, Serviceman’s Readjustment Act, Taft-Hartley Labor Act, National
Security Act, Cold War, George F. Kennan, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO, Jackie
Robinson, Dixiecrats, Fair Deal, NSC-68, Korean War, HUAC, Alger Hiss, Joseph R. McCarthy.
Chapter 30. Consumer Culture, GI Bill of Rights, Baby Boom, Willis Haviland Carrier,
Levittown, “white flight”, Great Migration, Bracero Program, women’s “place”, Norman
Vincent Peale, John Kenneth Galbraith, J. D. Salinger, Ralph Ellison, Jackson Pollack, the Beats,
Rock and Roll, Elvis Aaron Presley, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dynamic Conservatism, FederalAid Highway Act, Red Scare, Earl Warren, Brown v. Board of Education, Massive Resistance,
Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Elizabeth Eckford, John Foster Dulles, Massive Retaliation,
Brinksmanship, Mohammed Mossadegh, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, Ho Chi Minh, Dien Dien Phu,
Ngo Dinh Diem, Sputnik, U-2 Summit, Fidel Castro, “military-industrial complex”.
Chapter 31. John F. Kennedy, New Frontier, Lyndon B. Johnson, Warren Court, SNCC, freedom
riders, James Meredith, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile
Crisis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Barry Goldwater, Great Society, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting
Rights Act of 1965, Immigration Act of 1965, Freedom Summer, Robert Moses, Fannie Lou
Hamer, Black Power, Malcolm X, Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Tet Offensive, Richard M. Nixon.
Chapter 32. New Left, Students for a Democratic Society, the counterculture, Woodstock, Betty
Friedan, NOW, the pill, Cesar Chavez, AIM, Stonewall Riots, Henry Kissinger, Southern
Strategy, Milliken v. Bradley, Rachel Carson, EPA, stagflation, Vietnamization, My Lai
Massicare, Kent State, Pentagon Papers, détente, shuttle diplomacy, Watergate, Gerald Ford.
Chapter 33. Jimmy Carter, Camp David Accords, Salt II, Iranian Crisis, Ronald Reagan,
“Reaganomics”, New Right, Moral Majority, Phyllis Schlafly, SDI, Contras. Iran-Contra affair,
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Bill Gates, personal debt, HIV/AIDS, Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. W. Bush, [collapse of the
Soviet Union], Manuel Noriega, Operation Desert Storm, Cultural Conservatism.
Chapter 34. Demographic Shifts, William Jefferson Clinton, NAFTA, Contract with America,
PRWOA, New Economy, [Adarand and Hopwood cases], Wye River Accords, Kosovo, Bush v.
Gore, George W. Bush, No Child Left Behind, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Bush Doctrine,
Hurricane Katrina, the “surge”, TARP, Barak Obama, American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act, PPACA, Dodd-Frank, Arab Awakening, the “Tea Party”, Dream Act, Occupy Wall Street.
Writing Assignment:
Read Strum, Mendez v. Westminster. In a four page (minimum) doubles-spaced essay, respond
to the following: how did the saga of the Méndez family illustrate the peculiar way in which
“race” and cultural privilege operated in the mid-Twentieth Century and, according and in a
four-page (minimum), double-spaced essay, respond to the following: What made the U. S.
invasion of western Europe a "boy's crusade?" What specific experiences did these young men
have in training and in combat? What circumstances seemed to make the horrors of war
worthwhile? Due March 16.
Read Moye, Ella Baker. In a four-page (minimum), double-spaced essay, respond to the
following: How does the career of Ella Baker illustrate the challenges of race and gender in the
20th Century United States and within organizations like the NAACP, the SCLC, and SNCC?
Due April 6.
You will submit your book essays by submitting an electronic copy in the assignments function
in Blackboard and by posting an electronic copy at turnitin.com on or before the due date. You
must submit your work as a .doc or .docx. You are responsible for creating your user account
(it's easy). The instructions are posted at turnitin.com. You might find the library's site, "How to
avoid plagiarism," to be useful. http://www.adams.edu/library/how-to/plagiarism.php
Turnitin Stuff: class ID: 14350279 -- enrollment password: amhist
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