HIST 120 - U.S. in the World to 1877

Examines history of North America and the United States from the arrival of humans to North America to the Civil War and Reconstruction to help us better understand the 21st century. Focuses on events, groups, and individuals that highlight roles that colonization, revolution, capitalism’s rise, slavery’s rise and fall, struggles for equality, and movement of people, goods, and ideas across borders played in remaking early North America and the early US, creating a foundation for our modern world.

Credits 4

Compass Attributes
Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality