HISTORY 230 - Empire and Liberty:The United States in the 19th Century

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Reed College

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Full course for one semester. This course will ask to what extent 19th-century Americans shared in an expanding circle of freedom, the "empire of liberty" as Thomas Jefferson conceived of it. At the beginning of the 19th century, the United States was a tenuously united confederation of states bounded on the West by the Mississippi River. By the end of the century, the country had expanded westward to the Pacific Ocean, fought a civil war over slavery, and emerged on the other side with a powerful federal government, an ascendant industrial economy, a diverse population of native-born Americans and immigrants from all shores, and new imperial interests overseas. Tracing major political and social changes in the American republic, in this course we will consider the 19th century's most significant battles for freedom and rights fought by wageworkers, immigrants, African Americans, Indians, women, and farmers. Conference

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.reed.edu

Phone Number:

(503) 771-1112

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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