{"id":1322,"date":"2017-08-05T02:17:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T02:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1322"},"modified":"2018-01-23T22:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:03:46","slug":"course-contents-at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/rangercollege-ushistory2os\/chapter\/course-contents-at-a-glance\/","title":{"raw":"Course Contents at a Glance","rendered":"Course Contents at a Glance"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-220\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2025\/2017\/07\/01212659\/binoculars2.png\" alt=\"an icon of a pair of binoculars\" width=\"250\" height=\"142\" \/>\r\n\r\nThe following list shows the module-level topics and assignments for the course.\u00a0To see all of the course pages, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/\">Table of Contents<\/a>.\r\n<div class=\"first column\">\r\n<h4>Module 1: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Restoring the Union<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865\u20131866<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Radical Reconstruction, 1867\u20131872<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Collapse of Reconstruction<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 2: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Westward Spirit<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Homesteading: Dreams and Realities<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Making a Living in Gold and Cattle<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 3: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Inventors of the Age<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">From Invention to Industrial Growth<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">A New American Consumer Culture<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 4: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Urbanization and Its Challenges<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The African American \u201cGreat Migration\u201d and New European Immigration<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Change Reflected in Thought and Writing<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 5: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Political Corruption in Postbellum America<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 6: Leading the Way\u2014The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Progressivism at the Grassroots Level<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">New Voices for Women and African Americans<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Progressivism in the White House<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\" column\">\r\n<h4>Module 7: Age of Empire\u2014American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Economic Imperialism in East Asia<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Roosevelt\u2019s \u201cBig Stick\u201d Foreign Policy<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Taft\u2019s \u201cDollar Diplomacy\u201d<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 8: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">American Isolationism and the European Origins of War<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The United States Prepares for War<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">A New Home Front<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">From War to Peace<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 9: The Jazz Age\u2014Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Transformation and Backlash<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">A New Generation<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 10: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Stock Market Crash of 1929<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">President Hoover\u2019s Response<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Depths of the Great Depression<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 11: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The First New Deal<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Second New Deal<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 12: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Home Front<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Victory in the European Theater<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 13: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Challenges of Peacetime<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Cold War<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The American Dream<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Popular Culture and Mass Media<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The African American Struggle for Civil Rights<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 14: Contesting Futures\u2014America in the 1960s<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Kennedy Promise<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Civil Rights Movement Marches On<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Challenging the Status Quo<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 15: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Identity Politics in a Fractured Society<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Coming Apart, Coming Together<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Vietnam: The Downward Spiral<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Watergate: Nixon\u2019s Domestic Nightmare<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Jimmy Carter in the Aftermath of the Storm<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module 16: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1980-2000<\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Reagan Revolution<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Political and Cultural Fusions<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">A New World Order<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\">Bill Clinton and the New Economy<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h4>Module<strong> 17: The Challenges of the Twenty-First Century<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\"><strong>The War on Terror<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\"><strong>The Domestic Mission<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\"><strong>New Century, Old Disputes<\/strong><\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"chapter standard\"><strong>Hope and Change<\/strong><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-220\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2025\/2017\/07\/01212659\/binoculars2.png\" alt=\"an icon of a pair of binoculars\" width=\"250\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The following list shows the module-level topics and assignments for the course.\u00a0To see all of the course pages, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/ushistory2os\/\">Table of Contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"first column\">\n<h4>Module 1: The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Restoring the Union<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865\u20131866<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Radical Reconstruction, 1867\u20131872<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Collapse of Reconstruction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 2: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Westward Spirit<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Homesteading: Dreams and Realities<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Making a Living in Gold and Cattle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 3: Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Inventors of the Age<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">From Invention to Industrial Growth<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">A New American Consumer Culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 4: The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Urbanization and Its Challenges<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The African American \u201cGreat Migration\u201d and New European Immigration<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Change Reflected in Thought and Writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 5: Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Political Corruption in Postbellum America<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 6: Leading the Way\u2014The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Progressivism at the Grassroots Level<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">New Voices for Women and African Americans<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Progressivism in the White House<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h4>Module 7: Age of Empire\u2014American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Economic Imperialism in East Asia<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Roosevelt\u2019s \u201cBig Stick\u201d Foreign Policy<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Taft\u2019s \u201cDollar Diplomacy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 8: Americans and the Great War, 1914-1919<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">American Isolationism and the European Origins of War<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The United States Prepares for War<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">A New Home Front<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">From War to Peace<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Demobilization and Its Difficult Aftermath<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 9: The Jazz Age\u2014Redefining the Nation, 1919-1929<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Prosperity and the Production of Popular Entertainment<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Transformation and Backlash<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">A New Generation<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Republican Ascendancy: Politics in the 1920s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 10: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Great Depression, 1929-1932<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Stock Market Crash of 1929<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">President Hoover\u2019s Response<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Depths of the Great Depression<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Assessing the Hoover Years on the Eve of the New Deal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 11: Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1941<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Rise of Franklin Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The First New Deal<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Second New Deal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 12: Fighting the Good Fight in World War II, 1941-1945<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Origins of War: Europe, Asia, and the United States<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Home Front<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Victory in the European Theater<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Pacific Theater and the Atomic Bomb<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 13: Post-War Prosperity and Cold War Fears, 1945-1960<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Challenges of Peacetime<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Cold War<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The American Dream<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Popular Culture and Mass Media<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The African American Struggle for Civil Rights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 14: Contesting Futures\u2014America in the 1960s<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Kennedy Promise<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">The Civil Rights Movement Marches On<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Challenging the Status Quo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Module 15: Political Storms at Home and Abroad, 1968-1980<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Identity Politics in a Fractured Society<\/li>\n<li class=\"chapter standard\">Coming Apart, Coming 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