Overview
* Definition of the Industrial Revolution * How the Industrial Revolution alters the class structure of societies * Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations* Free trade* Karl Marx’s two major works: The Communist Manifesto & Das Kapital * Friction between English- & French-speaking Canadians as an obstacle to unity * Trail of Tears * The Cotton Gin’s role in guaranteeing that slavery did not die out in the United States * The Mexican War as an example of Manifest Destiny * Role of slavery’s expansion into the West in bringing on the American Civil War * Impact of African-American soldiers on the Civil War & our understanding of the conflict * Document that ended slavery in the United States * Reconstruction * “Birthright citizenship” — its origins & meaning * Emblems or symbols of the myth of the “Lost Cause” * Creation of a common national narrative of the Civil War * Realpolitik * Origins of the International Red Cross * Otto von Bismarck’s strategy to unify Germany * Bismarck’s role in creating the first welfare state * Natural selection * Social Darwinism & eugenics * Reasons for the imperial expansion between 1871-1914 * “Scramble for Africa” * The Boer War as an example of the ruthlessness of Imperialism * How the Spanish-American War helped the United States expand in Asia & the Pacific * Main objective of the imperial expansion in Asia * Opponents of imperialism such as Roger Casement & Mark Twain * The Victorians’ “code of silence” about sex * Oscar Wilde * Narcotics use in the Victorian Age * Gilded Age * Origin of the term ghetto * Attitudes toward Asian immigration in the United States in the late 19 century *The impact of Margaret Sanger & Marie Stopes * Suffragists versus Suffragettes, including the Pankhursts *Four main causes of World War I * How the modern Middle East was shaped by Allied plans/deals made during World War I * The reason for the Great Migration & its impact on American culture & society * Anti-German hysteria in Allied countries during World War I* “Lost Generation” — who coined the term, who it was about * The Great Migration — why it happened & how it affected popular music* Zimmermann Telegram * America’s main contribution to the Allied victory in World War I