
All necessary reference material required to prepare for this course such as recommended
reference books and other study material will be available in your student's area.
To complete the program you will be required to pass an online exam for all following
topics covered in this course.
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Topics Covered in This Course: |
In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:  | When old worlds collide: contact, conquest, catastrophe. |
 | The challenge to spain and the settlement of north america. |
 | England discovers its colonies: empire, liberty, and expansion. |
 | Provincial america and the struggle for a continent. |
 | Reform, resistance, revolution. |
 | The revolutionary republic. |
| In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:  | The democratic republic, 1790 and ndash;1820. |
 | Completing the revolution, 1789 and ndash;1815. |
 | The market revolution, 1815 and ndash;1860. |
 | Toward an american culture. |
 | Society, culture, and politics, 1820s and ndash;1840s. |
 | Jacksonian democracy. |
| In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:  | Manifest destiny: an empire for liberty -- or slavery? |
 | The gathering tempest, 1853 and ndash;1860. |
 | Secession and civil war, 1860 and ndash;1862. |
 | A new birth of freedom, 1862 and ndash;1865. |
 | Reconstruction, 1863 and ndash;1877. |
 | Frontiers of change, politics of stalemate, 1865 and ndash;1890. |
| In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:  | Economic change and the crisis of the 1890s. |
 | An industrial society, 1890 and ndash;1920. |
 | Progressivism. |
 | Becoming a world power, 1898 and ndash;1917. |
 | War and society, 1914 and ndash;1920. |
 | The 1920s. |
| In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:  | The great depression and the new deal, 1929 and ndash;1939. |
 | America during the second world war. |
 | The age of containment, 1946 and ndash;1953. |
 | Affluence and its discontents, 1953 and ndash;1963. |
 | America during its longest war, 1963 and ndash;1974. |
 | Economic and social change in the late 20th century. |
 | Power and politics since 1974. |
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