M05 Learning Objectives and Content

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • Describe the ongoing development of an urban industrial society and a corporate-capitalist economy out of a rural, agrarian past. 
    • List ways in which rural America responded to economic and technological changes.
    • Compare and contrast changes in demographic patterns and explain its impact on U.S. American society.
  • Trace and analyze the ride of reform and social movements. 
    • Explain the major influences that contributed to reform impulses since 1865.
    • Identify the nation's struggle to maintain democratic order in an urban and industrial age.
    • Recall the milestone events of the reform and social movements.
    • Describe the key parts of the civil rights movement for African Americans, women, Latinos, Native Americans, immigrants, and others.
  • Evaluate the expanding role of the United States in global affairs, from the Civil War to the present.
    • Compare and contrast the major foreign policy pronouncements that influenced U.S. policies.
    • Evaluate the extent to which the U.S. continues to experience dilemmas in its international relationships.
  • Trace the expanding role of government in U.S. American society from the Civil War to the present.
    • Describe the debate over the appropriate role of government.
    • Identify how ideological shifts have affected government policies in dealing with economic, political, and social needs of the American people.
    • Describe the different political, economic, and social perspectives of they key political parties.
    • Analyze the goals, styles, achievements, and limitations of presidential administrations.
  • Define the transformation of the patterns of everyday life: the emergence of mass culture, religious, intellectual, artistic, and scientific developments, and a pluralistic national culture.
    • Describe efforts to whip up patriotic feelings during times of war and assess the effectiveness and consequences of such actions.
    • List and briefly describe the key movements and individuals contributing to the transformation of U.S. American society.
  • Analyze the emergence of the United States as a world power.
    • Identify the ways the U.S. emerged from World War II as the most prosperous and powerful nation in the world.
  • Reflect on U.S. American historical issues and themes and form coherent, defensible interpretations about their domestic and global impact.
    • Explain how the nation coped with the needs and demands of diverse groups in the quest for a better society.
    • Describe how diverse peoples have come together due to the tension they faced
    • Identity economic, political, religious, and social change and how these have shaped the country.
    • Explain how global events and trends have shaped the United States and the impact America had on the rest of the world.
  • Locate and analyze primary sources and secondary sources related to an event or issue of the past; discover possible limitations in various kinds of historical evidence and differing secondary opinions.

Here is the content for this module:

  • Go over everything in Learning Materials
    • Read: The New Deal (1932-1941)
    • Read: World War II (1941-1945)
  • Read and Participate in the Discussion 5 activities
  • Submit Graded Assignments
    • M05: Discussion 5 - (be sure to respond to the discussion prompt(s) and respond to at least 1 (one) classmate's discussion response)
    • M05: Quiz The New Deal (1932-1941)
    • M05: Quiz  World War II (1941-1945)

The content in each module is sequenced in the suggested order you should complete it.  When you are ready to get started on this module, click the Picture of a button with the text next on it. button below.