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History 2020, 1st unit

General Topics

• 1. The West
• 2. The “New South” and “Jim Crow”
• 3. “Big business” and the reactions against it
• 4. Growth of cities, urban problems, immigration
• 5. Cultural developments in the “Gilded Age”
• 6. The nature of politics, 1877-1896
• 7. The rise and fall of the Populist movement
• 8. The development of American imperialism
• 9. Progressivism

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