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Take U.S. History II at your own pace

The focus of this self-paced, online course is the post-Civil War period through the present day. Log in anytime, anywhere and get the support you need with Sophia Learning’s smart, user-friendly platform.

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This is a pass/fail course. You must complete 17 Challenges (formative assessments), 5 Milestones (summative assessments), and 2 Touchstones (project-based or written assessment) with an overall score of 70% or better.

Learning outcomes

<p>At the end of the course, you'll be able to:<br></p> <ul><li>Recognize the causes and effects of urbanization, industrialization, and westward expansion in the late 19th century and the tools and analytical lenses that historians use to research and interpret the past.</li><li>Explain the political, social, and economic forces behind the emergence of the modern U.S. state and contextualize historical events by tracing continuity and change over time.</li><li>Analyze how World War II, the Cold War, and the civil rights revolution transformed the United States in the mid-20th century by considering causation, context, and complexity.</li><li>Interpret recent U.S. history by connecting past debates over government, economy, and culture to contemporary domestic and foreign policy conflicts.</li></ul>
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