HIST 104 Presentation Notes

Note:  These are to provide you with a  basic guide for class presentations.  The actual class presentation may include different material from the presentations below.  As well, class presentations are much more detailed, complex and explanatory than these notes.  Also, these notes do not necessarily concur with specific class dates (there may be parts of these presented in different classes).
 
 Reconstruction

 The Gilded Age-Society & Politics
 
Industrialization: 1865-1900
 
Late 19th-C. labor organization

Urban America, 1865-1910: the middle class, immigrants & culture

Western expansion

Agrarian political discontent & organization, 1870-1896

Test 1 Review Sheet

Late 19th/Early 20th century foreign policy & repercussions (domestic & abroad)

The Progressive Era, 1890-1914

Early 20th C FP & beginning of World War I (note: some of these notes are already included in previous notes on late-19th C FP & reprecussions)

World War I

the 1920's

 the early depression & dust bowl

The New Deal & later depression

 

1930's foreign developments & the build-up to WWII

World War II

Test 2 - review sheet

early Cold War

"Pax Americana," 1950-1963

African-American Civil Rights, 1954-1968

New Frontier, & Great Society(?) - 1960's

 

the Vietnam era

Nixon years & early 1970's

American society & politics, 1976-1988

the US: 1988-1998 & what next?

Test 3: review sheet

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