Nov 21, 2024  
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Catalogue 2024-2025
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HIST 276 - Democracy in America? Parties, Politics and Grassroots Change, 1828-1912


1 unit(s)
Focusing on the nineteenth-century United States, this course traces political struggles over continental conquest, slavery, industrialization, and nation-building. Key topics include expansion and conflict in the trans-Mississippi West; the rise of the Republican Party and sectional conflict; Emancipation and post-Civil War struggles over the scope and role of government; and struggles that accompanied the emergence of modern corporate capitalism. The course explores relationships among formal politics (parties and elections), public policy, and grassroots movements for change, such as abolitionism, labor, and agrarian protest.  Rebecca Edwards.

Two 75-minute periods.

Not offered in 2024/25.

Course Format: CLS



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