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Additional Cost Description:

Students are responsible for acquiring the required textbook: Brinkley, Alan. American History Connecting with the Past, 15th Edition. Mcgraw Hill, 2017. Hardcover: ISBN-13: 9780076738304 Online Student Edition: ISBN-13 : 9780079032737.

Note: In addition to purchasing a textbook, students can sign up for a free online account for the following supplemental resource: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Sign up at: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/community/user/register.

Students will chronologically learn about the themes, events, and movements of the four distinct time periods from the end of the Civil War (1865) to present day. The Time periods are as follows:

• Period 6 (1865-1898)
• Period 7: (1890-1945)
• Period 8: (1945-1980)
• Period 9: (1980 - Present)

In addition, students will learn about and be able to identify specific examples of the following historical themes that repeatedly come up in American history. The themes are: Identity, Work, Exchange, and Technology, Peopling, Politics and Power, America in the World, Environment and Geography - physical and human, and Ideas, beliefs, and culture.

Finally, students will understand and use various historical thinking skills to comprehend course information and demonstrate their understanding of it. These thinking skills include: Historical Causation, Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time, Periodization, Comparison, Contextualization, Historical Argument, Appropriate Use of Historical Evidence, Interpretation, and Synthesis.

• Unit 6 1865 - 1898
  • The rights of freedmen and women;
  • Reconstruction;
  • freedmen’s bureau, and the 1877 Railroad strike;
  • rise of labor unions and the Populist Party;
  • general themes of industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and imperialism;
  • and Indian wars, the Spanish American War, and conquests in the Pacific.
• Unit 7 1890 - 1945
  • The formation of the Industrial Workers of the World and the AFL;
  • industrialization and technology, mass production and mass consumerism, and radio and movies;
  • Harlem Renaissance;
  • Native American culture and boarding schools;
  • political parties and the transition from classical liberalism to New Deal liberalism with the capitalist crisis of the 1930s;
  • and WW II, demographic shifts, the role of women and nonwhites, and battles for economic rights.
• Unit 8 1945 - 1980
  • The atomic age;
  • the affluent society and suburbs;
  • discrimination, the Other America, and the African American Civil Rights movement;
  • Vietnam and U.S. imperial policies in Latin America and Africa;
  • the Beats and the student, counterculture, antiwar, women’s, chicano, American Indian, and gay and lesbian movements;
  • summer riots and the occupation of Alcatraz; LBJ’s Great Society and the rise of the New Right;
  • Ronald Reagan and the rise of poverty;
  • and the Cold War and U.S. role in the world.
• Unit 9 1980 - Present
  • Summary of Reagan’s domestic and foreign policies;
  • Bush Sr. and the end of the Cold War;
  • Clinton as a New Democrat;
  • technology and economic bubbles and recessions, race relations, and the role of women;
  • changing demographics and the return of poverty;
  • rise of the prison industrial complex and the war on drugs;
  • 9/11 and the domestic and foreign policies that followed;
  • and Obama: change or continuity?

Please review the MVS Technology Requirements: http://www.mivhs.org/Support/Technical-Requirements

Students will need to be able to access www.youtube.com, www.gilderlehrman.org , and www.unitedstreaming.com for some instructional materials.