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The Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties: The Emergence of Modern America (Canvas.net)

Offered by Seattle Central Community College,
The Gilded Age to the Roaring Twenties: The Emergence of Modern America (Canvas.net)

This course will explore government policies dealing with African-Americans and Native Americans; the rise of big business and urbanization; the second industrial revolution and immigration; U.S. overseas expansion and participation in the First World War; as well as progressivism and the modernist cultures of the 1920s.

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