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| | Syllabus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Through multi-media lectures, readings, group activities, and non-print media (film, posters, music), this course will survey the political, social, racial, and institutional history of the United States from colonial times to 1865. |
 | | History 17A is a survey of the political, economic, social and cultural history of the United States from the pre-colonial period through the Civil War. |
 | | Topics covered include indigenous and European influence on the development of the colonies, the causes and consequences of the War of Independence, the origin and principles of the U.S. Constitution, early industrialization, westward expansion, foreign policy, slavery and its impact on race relations, abolition and other reform movements, and the Civil War and Reconstruction years. |
| timmer.org /HISTORY_17A/Syllabus_Hist17A.htm (963 words) |
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