HIST 276 - Democracy in America?: U.S. Capitalism and Continental Expansion, 1830-1890

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Tracing the economic, political, and social transformations of the nineteenth century United States, this course places the Civil War in the context of other U.S. nation-building projects, including industrialization, the Mexican-American War, and so-called “Indian Wars.” Key topics examined in the course include struggles over public policy in the Jacksonian era; rise of the Republican Party; sectional crisis and Civil War; Emancipation and national Reconstruction; the emergence of modern corporate capitalism; and expansion and conquest in the trans-Mississippi West. Comparisons with other nineteenth-century nations and empires will be made. Ms. Edwards.

Prerequisite(s): The prerequisite for courses at the 200-level is ordinarily 1 unit in history.

Two 75-minute periods.