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)

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