Since its beginning, America has undergone drastic changes that have impacted its political and social landscape. This part of America’s story begins with the Gilded Age and concludes with the Obama administration. Over this time period, America’s resolve has been tested through war, economic hardships, and social injustice. However, in the end America emerges as an industrial superpower.

This class explores significant events in American history, starting with the Gilded Age and the Age of Imperialism. This was followed by World War I. After the war, the US experienced the Roaring Twenties and Prohibition. The journey continues through the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. You will complete the journey by examining the office of the presidency through President Barak Obama’s first term.

Transcript: Course Introduction

Course Objectives

• Analyze America's immigration history and relate it to current political debates. 
• Analyze periods of government corruption and other unethical practices, as well as the actions taken against them. 
• Analyze the causes and effects of imperialism, both within and outside of America. 
• Analyze the impact of mass and popular media on American society. 
• Analyze the purpose of primary sources. 
• Explain the impact and evolution of social, political, and civil rights issues in the United States. 
• Identify key individuals, events, conflicts, and outcomes of the Cold War. 
• Identify major economic crises in American history, their causes, and the government responses to them. 
• Identify major events and political ideas that led to World War II. Course:
• Identify the causes, events, and aftermath of World War II. 
• Identify the foreign and domestic policies of US administrations since the 1960s.

Explain the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s by discussing the breaking of baseball’s color barrier, Brown v. Board of Education, religion in schools, desegregation, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and Vietnam War protests. 

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