U.S. History: Pre-Colonial to the Civil War
History · 3 hrs Lecture
Offered: Every Second Year
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No prerequisites listed, you can take this course without prior coursework.
Description
This course is an introduction to the study of U.S. history from the pre-colonial period to the end of the Civil War in 1865. The course emphasizes struggles for power, land, freedom, and wealth among European settlers, enslaved and freed Black Americans, Indigenous nations, and other marginalized peoples. Topics may include: Indigenous societies, European colonialism, race and the institution of slavery, gender relations and womanhood, the American Revolution and early Republic, immigration and nativism, industrialization, westward expansion, religious reformism, the abolitionist and women's rights movements, sectional tensions, and the Civil War. This course can be taken independently from HIST- 2577.
Restrictions
Students may not hold credit for this course and HIST-2605 | HIST-2600.
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