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2024-2025 Catalog

HIST 2018 - The New Nation: 1800-1860

Credits: 3

This course emphasizes change in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century. It spans the time preoccupied with Thomas Jefferson’s Administration, the War of 1812, the Era of Good Feelings, the Age of Jackson, and the expansion of the United States into the American West. It also examines such topics as the growth of democracy, the development of political parties, American slavery, sectionalism, and social reform.