Faculty Syllabus
HIST-1302 United States History II
Deborah Quinn
Credit Spring 2026
Section(s)
HIST-1302-122 (17197)
LEC TuTh 10:30am - 11:50am RRC RRC8 8304.00
HIST-1302-130 (28825)
LEC TuTh 9:00am - 10:20am RRC RRC8 8304.00
Course Requirements
- Punctual and regular attendance is required. Any student accumulating three (3) or more absences MAY be dropped from the course by the instructor. Any student that ceases to attend class MAY be formally dropped from the course by the instructor. Any student who ceases to attend classes after the official withdrawal date and therefore does not complete the course work WILL receive the grade of “F” for the course.
- High School and/or Austin Community College required student events must have documentation, on school letterhead, from a school official before a makeup exam and/or late papers will be accepted. College visits DO NOT APPLY TO THIS POLICY and are considered UNEXCUSED absences. Students will need to discuss with the Professor any college visit that conflicts with the important dates listed in the syllabus. The Testing deadline stated in the syllabus will still apply.
- The quality and quantity of the work done by the student determines his/her final grade.
- No cell phones, iPods, or tape recorders will be allowed in the classroom during the lectures. Charging of cell phones is forbidden in the classroom. Laptops are only allowed in the classroom for taking lecture notes. Any use of laptops other than class notes is forbidden and any student violating the classroom policy will not be allowed to use laptops during class lectures. All laptops must be charged before class, charging of laptops in class is forbidden. Any student violating any classroom policy will be asked to leave the classroom.
- The History Department does not allow for extra credit. All exams and assignments are graded once and there is no retest in this course.
- Tutoring is offered by this professor during office hours and/or by appointment. Tutoring is also offered by ACC online.
Course Subjects
U.S. History 1302 – Course Schedule
DATE ACTIVITY
Jan 21st Syllabus/Learning Objectives
26th The New South
28th The American West
Feb 2nd The Machine Age
4th Turmoil in Urban Life
9th Gilded Age Politics (Part I)
11th Gilded Age Politics (Part II)
16th The Spanish American War
18th The Progressive Era: 1895-1920 (Part I)
23rd The Progressive Era: 1895-1920 (Part II)
25th 1st EXAM (17-21) – DUE TODAY
Mar 2nd World War I (All Parts)
4th Americans in the Great War/Essay #1 Due
9th The New Era: 1920-1929
11th America in Color – 1920s
16th – 20th SPRING BREAK – NO CLASSES
23rd The Great Depression
25th America in Color – 1930s
30th Peaceseekers and Warmakers: 1920-1941
Apr 1st World War II: Home & Abroad
6th World War II: America: The Story of US
8th 2nd EXAM (22-26) – DUE TODAY
13th The Cold War:1945-1961 (Part I)
15th The Cold War: 1945-1960 (Part II)
20th America at Mid Century: 1945-1960
22nd America in Color – 1950s
27th The Sixties: 1960-1969 (Part I)
29th The Sixties: 1960-1969 (Part II)
May 4th America in Color – 1960s
6th Continuing Divisions: 1969-1980 /(2nd Essay Due)
11th Conservatism Revived:1980-1992
13th Final Exam (cpts 27-32)
Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives
HIST1302 - Learning Objectives
Chapter 17: The West: Exploiting an Empire
1. Know how most 19th century mapmakers referred to the Great Plains, beginning with Lewis and Clark.
2. Identify what the socioeconomic and religious life of the Plains tribes revolved around.
3. Name the most important animal to the Plains Indians, after the buffalo.
4. Know, in general terms, the ideology of the Plains tribes.
5. Identify the factors which led the United States government to abandon the policy of one large reservation after 1851.
6. Name the leader of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864.
7. Know the greatest Native American victory over the United States Army.
8. Identify the location(s) where the first migrations westward headed.
9. Identify the phrase that best describes the journey for most settlers westward.
10. Name the 1902 federal law setting aside the proceeds from land sales to finance irrigation projects out west.
11. Identify the first major industry to attract large numbers of people to the West.
12. Know what stimulated the western cattle industry.
13. Identify who 50% of cowboys driving the great herds from Texas to city markets in the 1870s were.
14. Know where late 19th century farmers on the Great Plains usually lived.
15. Name the inventor of barbed wire.
16. Identify the source(s) of discontent among farmers.
Chapter 18: The Industrial Society
1. Know how the American government affected industrial growth.
2. Identify the factors in American industrial development.
3. Identify where industrial growth was most concentrated.
4. Name the industry considered the nations "first big business".
5. Name the most important figure in American finance.
6. Know what attributed to Andrew Carnegie's success.
7. Name the individual most closely associated with innovations in photographic equipment.
8. Name the greatest inventor of late 19th and early 20th century America.
9. Name the leader of the Knights of Labor.
10. Identify the most important labor organization in the country by the 1890s
11. Know the outcome of the 1905 Supreme Court decision in Lochner v. New York.
Chapter 19: Toward an Urban Society: 1877-1900
1. Identify the invention needed in building the new skyscrapers.
2. Name the journalist who exposed How the Other Half Lives in urban tenements.
3. Identify where most immigrants arrived from by the end of the 19th century.
4. Identify the characteristic of new immigrants as they entered American society.
5. Identify a consequence of the urban growth of the late 19th century.
6. Name the most famous urban political machine boss in the late 19th century.
7. Name the urban political boss who defended "honest graft".
8. Know the ideology of the Victorian Code of Morality.
9. Know what the popularity of spectator sports indicated.
10. Name the most popular spectator sport in the 19th century.
11. Identify a characteristic of the New Woman.
12. Name a founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
13. Identify what gave large land grants to states to establish agricultural colleges.
14. Name the influential president of Harvard in the late 1800s.
15. Name the leading American advocate of Social Darwinism.
16. Name the author of Looking Backward, which looked forward to a future of socialism in America.
17. Know the beliefs of the Social Gospel minister.
Chapter 20: Political Realignment in the 1890s
1. Know why Americans were fascinated by politics during the Gilded Age.
2. Identify which group the Grandfather Clause waived for literacy requirements.
3. Know the Republican Party's platform in the post-Civil War period.
4. Know the purpose of the first state railroad commissions.
5. Name the case in which the Supreme Court upheld the right of states to regulate commerce.
6. Know the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
7. Name the president who entered the White House after the fraudulent election of 1876.
8. Identify a consequence of the case of United States v E.C. Knight.
9. Identify an outcome of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
10. Know the importance of the Republican-controlled Congress of 1890.
11. Name the Populist candidate for President in 1892.
12. Know a factor of the Panic of 1893.
13. Know why President Cleveland broke the Pullman Strike.
14. Know the consequences of the Pullman Strike.
15. Name the president of the United States during the Depression of 1893.
Chapter 21: Toward Empire
1. Know the position Theodore Roosevelt resigned from in order to organize the Rough Riders.
2. Name the country the United States purchased Alaska from in 1867.
3. Name the first territory outside the North American continent acquired by the United States was.
4. Identify the difficulties in annexing the Hawaiian Islands.
5. Know Grover Cleveland's response to the successful American revolt in Hawaii in 1893.
6. Identify President Cleveland and President McKinley's approaches to the Cuban rebellion against Spain.
7. Know the status of African Americans in the military during the Spanish American War.
8. Identify the actions of commodore Dewey in the Philippines.
9. Name the territory which caused the most debate about the merits of acquiring an empire for the United States.
10. Name an individual who favored the annexation of the Philippines.
11. Know the terms of the Taft Commission.
12. Name the territory where native inhabitants received U.S. citizenship in 1900.
13. Identify what document provided the terms for U.S. intervention in Cuba.
14. Know where the Boxer Rebellion took place.
Chapter 22: The Progressive Era
1. Name the author of The Jungle.
2. Identify the best example of a mass-produced consumer product in the early 1900s.
3. Know how Henry Ford showed enormous profits.
4. Identify where Henry Ford got the idea for the moving assembly line.
5. Name the leading financier in the United States in the early 1900s.
6. Know the consequence of the new industrial system on workers.
7. Name the disaster which forced state and national attention on working conditions in factories and stores.
8. Know the status of African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century.
9. Name the individual who took a gradualist approach to African American concerns.
10. Name the organization which led the fight for equal rights and education.
11. Identify the purpose of the American Federation of Labor in the first decade of the 20th century.
12. Name the leader of the American Federation of Labor.
13. Name the labor leader who advocated social revolution.
14. Know what led to greater leisure time for workers.
15. Identify which violent sport led to the establishment of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
16. Identify a popular form of entertainment that drew from the immigrant experience.
Chapter 23: From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism
1. Know the purpose of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
2. Know the purpose of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
3. Name the most effective proponent of "social jurisprudence".
4. Identify where the commission form of government was pioneered.
5. Know Progressives' attitudes toward the commissions they championed.
6. Name the most famous reform governor of the Progressive Era.
7. Name the individual Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House which angered southerners.
8. Know the response of President Theodore Roosevelt in the Great Coal Strike of 1902.
9. Identify the act passed in response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
10. Identify a reason Roosevelt pushed to regulate the food and drug industry.
11. Know Taft's greatest strength before becoming president.
12. Know the candidates for president of the United States in 1912.
13. Know the reason for Woodrow Wilson's victory in the election of 1912.
14. Name the political party Theodore Roosevelt was a candidate for in 1912.
15. Know the purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
16. Know the purpose of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914.
17. Name the agency established in 1914 to oversee business practices.
Chapter 24: The Nation at War
1. Know how Theodore Roosevelt saw his foreign policy.
2. Identify how Woodrow Wilson conducted foreign policy.
3. Know President Wilson's action in respect to Mexico.
4. Know the belief of Americans at the beginning of World War I.
5. Know how American Progressives viewed World War I.
6. Identify a consequence of the Sussex Pledge.
7. Name the candidate defeated by Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
8. Name the leader of the American Expeditionary Forces.
9. Know the makeup of the American Expeditionary Forces.
10. Know the purpose of the Committee of Public Information.
11. Identify what the United States government relied primarily on to finance the war effort.
12. Know President Wilson's reaction when Communist Bolsheviks gained control of the Russian government in 1917.
13. Know the purpose of the War Industries Board during World War I.
14. Name the head of the Food Administration during World War I.
15. Know the status of organized labor during World War I.
16. Name the head of the War Labor Board.
Chapter 25: Transition to Modern America
1. Identify where the American economy saw explosive growth in the 1920s.
2. Know the key to the new affluence of the 1920s.
3. Know the effect of the automobile in the 1920s.
4. Identify the weakest area of the American economy in the 1920s.
5. Identify the group which benefited most from the economic gains of the 1920s.
6. Know what the National Woman's Party campaigned for during the 1920s.
7. Name the American writer who had the greatest impact on other American writers.
8. Name the leading social critic of the 1920s.
9. Identify James Weldon Johnson.
10. Know the reason for the Red Scare of 1919.
11. Name a prominent political leader who spoke out against the Red Scare.
12. Know the result of Prohibition.
13. Name the famous female evangelist of the 1920s.
14. Name the biology teacher in the famous evolution trial of 1925.
15. Name the chief figure in the Tea Pot Dome Scandal.
16. Name the Democratic candidate in the 1928 presidential election.
Chapter 26: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
1. Know President Hoover's belief on unemployment relief.
2. Identify the programs of the Hoover administration to improve the Depression.
3. Know the best description of Hoover's response to the Depression.
4. Name the person Americans blamed for the Depression.
5. Identify the term "Hundred Days".
6. Know the purpose of Roosevelt's Hundred Days banking legislation.
7. Identify the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
8. Identify which agency used the Blue Eagle symbol.
9. Identify which New Deal program(s) the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional.
10. Know the actions of the federal government under the Agricultural Adjustment Act in respect to farmers.
11. Identify how Franklin Roosevelt's initial New Deal legislation was viewed.
12. Know the contents of Father Coughlin's radio sermons.
13. Identify the group Francis Townsend advocated that the federal government pay $200 a month to.
14. Know the ideology advocated by Huey Long.
15. Know the purpose of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act.
16. Name the organization founded by John L. Lewis in 1935.
17. Know the purpose of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Chapter 27: America and the World: 1921-1945
1. Know the purpose of the Clark Memorandum of 1930.
2. Identify the invasion which shattered the illusion of peace in 1931.
3. Identify which Washington Conference treaty pledged to uphold the Open Door Policy.
4. Name the Fascist dictator of Italy.
5. Identify the term used to collectively describe Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
6. Know how Britain and France responded to initial German aggression.
7. Know President Roosevelt's response to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939.
8. Identify the term used to describe Germany's use of tanks, armored columns, and dive bombers in close coordination.
9. Name the U.S. destroyer sunk by German U-boats in October 1941.
10. Know the reason the American fleet at Pearl Harbor was caught by surprise when Japan attacked.
11. Name the United States' closest ally during World War II.
12. Know the status of United States-Soviet relations during World War II.
13. Identify where the German invasion of the Soviet Union was turned back.
14. Name the battle which prevented the Japanese assault on Australia.
15. Name the commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet during World War II.
16. Name the turning point of the Pacific War for the United States
17. Name the African American who proposed the 1941 March on Washington to end discrimination in defense employment.
Chapter 28: The Onset of the Cold War
1. Name the conference in which the victorious Allied Powers decided to take reparations from their own occupation zones in Germany.
2. Identify the crucial issue discussed at the Potsdam Conference.
3. Know the cause of Soviet bitterness toward the U.S. immediately after World War II.
4. Identify how the Soviet Union first learned of the American atomic bomb.
5. Know the characteristic of George Kennan's ideology.
6. Know the reason for the development of the Truman Doctrine.
7. Know the purpose of the Marshall Plan.
8. Know President Truman's response when the Soviet Union sealed of the city of Berlin in 1948.
9. Identify an outcome of the National Security Act of 1947.
10. Know the status of North Korea at the beginning of the Korean War.
11. Know a reason for the threat of a massive Chinese invasion in Korea during the Korean War.
12. Name the leading figure of the Red Scare in the early 1950s.
13. Identify President Eisenhower's most serious foreign policy crisis.
14. Name Stalin's successor.
Chapter 29: Affluence and Anxiety
1. Name the individual who invented the concept of mass construction of suburban homes.
2. Identify what was critical to life in the suburbs in the 1950s.
3. Know American's attitudes toward organized religion in the 1950s.
4. Name the most important social critic of the 1950s.
5. Know the capabilities of Sputnik, the satellite put into orbit by the Soviet Union in 1957.
6. Know the best description of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's political perspective.
7. Name the congressional Democrat President Eisenhower had to work most closely with.
8. Identify the characterization of Eisenhower's legislative record.
9. Name the one significant legislative achievement of the Eisenhower years.
10. Name the first president to attempt seriously to alter the historic patters of racial discrimination in the United States.
11. Know how the Deep South responded to court-ordered desegregation.
12. Name the Arkansas governor who defined U.S. Supreme Court orders to integrate public schools.
13. Name the organization founded by Martin Luther King, Jr., to promote civil rights.
Chapter 30: The Turbulent Sixties
1. Know what was critical to John F. Kennedy's victory in the election of 1960.
2. Name the loser of the presidential election of 1960.
3. Identify the man selected to serve as Secretary of Defense by John F. Kennedy
4. Name the Soviet leader with whom both Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy had to deal with.
5. Identify President Kennedy's most controversial Cabinet appointment.
6. Know Kennedy's greatest domestic obstacle while president.
7. Identify the group that sponsored the "freedom rides".
8. Name the 1962 Supreme Court decision banning school prayer.
9. Identify the law which established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
10. Name the individual defeated by Lyndon Johnson in the election of 1964.
11. Identify a major critic of Lyndon Johnson's foreign policies.
12. Know an outcome of American bombing of North Vietnam.
13. Name Lyndon Johnson's advisor who opposed the Vietnam War.
14. Know American tactics in the Vietnam War.
15. Know the main premise of General William Westmoreland's strategy in Vietnam.
16. Identify where the first signs of student rebellion in the fall of 1964 occurred.
17. Name the civil rights leader who advocated Black Power.
Chapter 31: To a New Conservatism, 1969-1988
1. Identify the term used by Nixon in regard to shifting responsibility for many social programs from the federal to the state and local levels.
2. Name President Nixon's attorney general.
3. Identify the main focus of the Nixon presidency.
4. Name the national security advisor during Nixon's first term.
5. Identify Nixon's program to improve relations with the Soviet Union
6. Know the purpose of the SALT treaties.
7. Know Richard Nixon's view of anti-war demonstrators.
8. Know an outcome of the Watergate Scandal.
9. Identify the international organization most responsible for raising petroleum prices in the 1970s.
10. Identify an unique characteristic of Gerald Ford's political career.
*was the first president not elected to the office of president or vice president
11. Name the individual Gerald Ford appointed to the CIA to end the criticism of the agency.
12. Name the individual defeated by Jimmy Carter in the election of 1976.
13. Identify the country from which revolutionaries took U.S. diplomats hostage in 1979.
14. Identify the group on strike in 1981 that was crushed by the Reagan administration.
15. Identify the term used to define the Reagan administration's policies in the Middle East and Central America.
Chapter 32: To the Twenty-First Century, 1989-2006
1. Identify what took up most of President Bush's time.
2. Name the U.S. allied military campaign against Iraq in 1991.
3. Name the individual beaten by police which precipitated the Los Angeles riots in 1992.
4. Identify the individual who ran as a third party candidate in the elections of 1992 and 1996.
5. Name the new speaker of the House after the mid-term election of 1994.
6. Name the Republican candidate in the 1996 presidential election.
7. Identify a reason for President Clinton's impeachment.
8. Know the foreign policy problems for the Clinton administration.
9. Identify the state the 2000 presidential election hung on legal battles over vote counts.
10. Name the individual George W. Bush cultivated the support of to get his education bill through Congress.
11. Know the term President Bush used in 2002 to describe Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
12. Name the individual defeated by George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.
Office Hours
M W 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM RRC (Round Rock Campus) Room 2312
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