HST 202 United States History: 1840 to 1900

1. Describe the major political, social, economic, and cultural transformations in United States history from 1840 to 1900. 
2. Compare the racial, economic, and ethnic groups in American society from 1840 to 1900 to those in the present day. 
3. Analyze the ways in which an unequal distribution of economic and political power shaped American history between 1840 and 1900. 
4. Analyze how an unequal distribution of power in the past has shaped the modern American nation. 
5. Analyze how other historical issues and ideas have also affected the development of the modern American nation. 
6. Prepare a written analysis of historical documents, issues or ideas. 
7. Analyze primary historical documents. 
8. Evaluate historians’ arguments and different methods of historical inquiry about an issue or time period. 

Statewide General Education Outcomes:

1. Apply analytical skills to social phenomena in order to understand human behavior. 
2. Apply knowledge and experience to foster personal growth and better appreciate the diverse social world in which we live. 

Additional Cultural Literacy (DPR) Outcome

1. Identify and analyze complex practices, values, and beliefs and the culturally and historically defined meanings of difference. 

• Introduction to the Historical Profession and Historiography 
• Racism and Slavery in the U.S., 1800-1860 
• Market Revolution, Immigration, and Class Divisions in the U.S., 1800-1860 
• “Cult of Domesticity” and the transformation of Gender Roles in the 1800s 
• Religious Revival and Reform Movements in the early 1800s 
• Indian Removal and Westward Expansion in the early 1800s 
• Sectional Conflict, 1820-1860 
• Civil War 
• Sectional and Racial Conflict in Reconstruction, 1865-1877 
• Native Defeat and American Dreams in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1860-1900 
• Industrialization, Immigration, and Class Conflict in the late 1800s 
• American Imperialism at Home and Abroad