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Course Description: U.S. History: To 1877
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Course Description: U.S. History: To 1877

U.S. History: To 1877

49-1601

Course examines main lines of American development from the seventeenth century to 1877. Instruction addresses transition from colony to nation, development of an American character, growing pains of industrialization and nationalism that culminated in the crisis of the Civil War and its aftermath, and problems of minority acculturation and treatment before Reconstruction.

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