HISTORY150B - 19th-Century America

(Same as HISTORY 50B. History majors and others taking 5 units, register for 150B.) Territorial expansion, social change, and economic transformation. The causes  and consequences of the Civil War.  Topics include: urbanization and the market revolution; slavery and the Old South; sectional conflict; successes and failures of Reconstruction; and late 19th-century society and culture. Meets Writing-in-the-Major requirement. GERs: DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul