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Colonial America and the Creation of the United States (HIS 103)

Term: 2023-2024 Academic Year Fall

Faculty

Margaret L. BrownShow MyInfo popup for Margaret L. Brown
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Schedule

Tue-Fri, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM (8/22/2023 - 12/15/2023) Location: MAIN MG 113

Description

This course examines the social, cultural, economic, and political development of the United States to 1865. Through reading, writing, and discussion, students appreciate major movements, such as the Great Awakening, the American Revolution, the Market Revolution, and Jacksonian Democracy
and how they shaped the new nation. They also become familiar with major figures, including Pocahontas, John Winthrop, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Dorothea Dix, Frederick Douglas, and Abraham Lincoln, from the colonial period through the Civil War. Meets General Education
Distribution Area III.A.