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Before the Civil War
* Compare and contrast three colonies
* Puritanism
* Democracy in the colonial period
* Relationship between Great Britain and the colonies to 1763
* Changes in British policy between 1763 and 1776
* Changes in the states during the Revolutionary War
* Articles of Confederation - successes and failures
* Critical period and the writing of the Constitution
* Hamilton versus Jefferson
* Rise of political parties in the 1790's
* Jefferson and the Jeffersonians in power, 1800-1820
* Foreign affairs - 1789-1825 - France, Great Britain, Spain
* Forces for nationalism and sectionalism 1789-1835
* Jacksonianism - issues
* Compare Jefferson and Jackson
* Politics and political parties in the Jackson era, 1824-1840
* Reform
* Manifest Destiny
* Economic issues, 1830-1860
* Slavery and Abolition
* Sectional issues, 1830-1860
* Causes of the Civil War
After the Civil War
* Reconstruction - success or failure
* Black History, 1860-1912
* Regulation and philosophy of big business, 1860-1920
* Politics, characteristics, 1860-1920
* Urbanization, 1850-1920
* Labor organizations - leaders, goals, successes, strikes, issues
* Immigration
* Darwinism and the Social Gospel
* Populism and the money question
* Theodore Roosevelt vs. Woodrow Wilson
* Progressive Movement
* Intellectual critics, 1865-1915
* Foreign policy, 1860-1914
* US vs. Latin America
* Beginning of WWI and WWII, foreign policy
* Aftermath of WWI and WWII, foreign and domestic
* Twenties, characteristics
* New Deal
* Foreign policy, 1920's and 1930's
* Cold War, 1945-1990
* 1960's
* Women in the twentieth century
* Relations with the Far East in the twentieth century
* Black history, 1920-1980
* Presidency in the twentieth century
* Rise of the welfare state
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