This course is offered on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30 pm (Eastern)/ 1:30 (Pacific) to 5:15 (Eastern)/ 2:15 (Pacific) time starting on August 21.

It is also available asynchronously/ on demand with pre-recorded lessons.

Semester 2 is also available live and asynchronously starting in mid January 2025

The course outline with topics of coverage is below. Classes are 45 minutes in length and meet twice per week. While each class will be varied in the delivery of instruction, the instructor will utilize presentations that are guided by a daily focus, discussion questions/prompts that encourage higher-level thinking and discussion.  Additionally, there will be video clips, review games, and quizzes (using MS Forms to submit for grading, which doesn't require signing up, just a name will be entered.)  

Learners are strongly encouraged to ask and answer questions, as well as to respond to each others' discussion points.

NOTE: Teacher will take special care in acknowledging and presenting multiple viewpoints that exist on the many social, political, and historical issues in the nation's history.  Many groups have been marginalized; coverage of those instances will be presented/discussed using factual and historical evidence. 

Course Outline with Topics

UNIT 1 – Civil War (causes, events, effects) and Reconstruction: African slave trade, popular sovereignty, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Underground  Railroad, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, Harper’s Ferry,  states’ rights, secession, Confederate States of America, Fort Sumter, Robert E. Lee,  Anaconda Plan, conscription, habeas corpus, income tax, Emancipation Proclamation,  Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Clara Barton, Gettysburg Address, Thirteenth Amendment,  Reconstruction, Radical Republicans, Freedman’s Bureau, Black codes, Fourteenth Amendment, Fifteenth Amendment, carpetbaggers, Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, debt  peonage, Ku Klux Klan 

UNIT 2 – Westward Expansion: open-range system, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Homestead Act, sodbusters, Manifest  Destiny, Frederick Jackson Turner, Red Cloud, Sand Creek Massacre, Battle of  Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull, Wounded Knee, Dawes Act (1887) 

UNIT 3 – Industrial Revolution and Populism: laissez-faire, Bessemer process, market economy, African-American inventors, business  monopolies, John D. Rockefeller, horizontal integration, trust, Andrew Carnegie, vertical  integration, Social Darwinism, Interstate Commerce Act (1887), Sherman Antitrust Act,  sweatshop, company town, collective bargaining, labor unions, Knights of Labor, Samuel  Gompers, American Federation of Labor, Haymarket Riot (1886), Henry Flagler,  Everglades, Homestead Strike (1892), Ida Tarbell, Eugene Debs, Pullman Strike (1894),  socialism, “old” vs. “new” immigrants, nativism, Chinese Exclusion Act, Gentlemen’s  Agreement, urbanization, tenements, Gilded Age, spoils system, Gilded Age, Pendleton Civil  Service Act, railroad monopolies, Homestead Act (1862), Farmers Alliance, The Grange, populism, William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold” speech, Sherman Silver Purchase Act  (1894) 

UNIT 4 – The Progressive Movement: Muckrakers, Carrie Chapman Catt, National Woman Suffrage Association, Gilded Age,  political machines, Jane Addams, settlement houses, Social Gospel Movement, direct primary, Seventeenth Amendment, Eighteenth Amendment, Nineteenth Amendment,  initiative, referendum, recall, Alice Paul, Margaret Sanger, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du  Bois, Niagara Movement, NAACP, Upton Sinclair, Meat Inspection Act, John Muir, “Bull  Moose” Party 

UNIT 5 – Imperialism and World War I: imperialism, Social Darwinism, Queen Liliuokalani, Jose Marti, William Randolph Hearst,  yellow journalism, jingoism, Teller Amendment, U.S.S. Maine, Spanish-American War,  Treaty of Paris, Emilio Aguinaldo, Platt Amendment, sphere of influence, Boxer Rebellion,  Open Door Policy, Treaty of Portsmouth (1905), “big stick” diplomacy, Roosevelt Corollary,  dollar diplomacy, militarism, alliance system, Big Four, Zimmerman note, Sussex Pledge,  Lusitania, contraband, unrestricted submarine warfare, World War I, new weaponry,  Selective Service Act, trench warfare, Espionage Act, war bonds, women in WWI, Great  Migration, home front, propaganda, League of Nations, Fourteen Points, Versailles Treaty,  reparations, Red Scare, Palmer Raids  

UNIT 6 – The 1920’s: inflation, Sacco and Vanzetti, anarchist, tariffs, Fordney-McCumber Act, speculation, bull  market, buying on margin, Emergency Quota Act of 1921, isolationism, Washington Naval  Conference, Teapot Dome, National Origins Act, Kellogg-Briand Pact, 18th Amendment,  Volstead Act, Prohibition, Roaring Twenties, flapper, fundamentalism, Scopes Monkey Trial,  ACLU, Harlem Renaissance, Marcus Garvey, NAACP, Rosewood Incident, Seminole Indians,  Women’s International League for Peace and FreedomUNIT 7 – The Great Depression and The New Deal: Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Dust Bowl, buying on margin, Black Tuesday, trickle-down  economics, Great Depression, Boulder Dam, Bonus Army, Hooverville, New Deal, Relief Recovery-Reform, Brain Trust, bank holiday, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation  (FDIC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA),  Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Works Progress  Administration (WPA), Social Security, National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), Gross  National Product (GNP), pump-priming, Black Cabinet, Indian New Deal, welfare state