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**THEMATIC REVIEW OF AMERICAN HISTORY**   **American Diversity ** The diversity of the American people and the relationships among different groups. The roles of race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the history of the United States. **American Identity ** Views of the American national character and ideas about American exceptionalism. Recognizing regional differences within the context of what it means to be an American. **Culture ** Diverse individual and collective expressions through literature, art, philosophy, music, theater, and film throughout U.S. history. Popular culture and the dimensions of cultural conflict within American society. **Demographic Changes ** Changes in birth, marriage, and death rates; life expectancy and family patterns; <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">population size and density. The economic, social, and political effects of immigration, <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">internal migration, and migration networks. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Economic Transformations ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Changes in trade, commerce, and technology across time. The effects of capitalist <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">development, labor and unions, and consumerism. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Environment ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Ideas about the consumption and conservation of natural resources. The impact of <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">population growth, industrialization, pollution, and urban and suburban expansion. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Globalization ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Engagement with the rest of the world from the fifteenth century to the present: <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">colonialism, mercantilism, global hegemony, development of markets, imperialism, <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">and cultural exchange. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Politics and Citizenship ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Colonial and revolutionary legacies, American political traditions, growth of democracy, <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">and the development of the modern state. Defining citizenship; struggles for <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">civil rights. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Reform ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Diverse movements focusing on a broad range of issues, including anti-slavery, <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">education, labor, temperance, women’s rights, civil rights, gay rights, war, public <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">health, and government. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Religion ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The variety of religious beliefs and practices in America from prehistory to the twentyfirst <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">century; influence of religion on politics, economics, and society. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">Slavery and Its Legacies in North America ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Systems of slave labor and other forms of unfree labor (e.g., indentured servitude, <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">contract labor) in American Indian societies, the Atlantic World, and the American <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">South and West. The economics of slavery and its racial dimensions. Patterns of <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">resistance and the long-term economic, political, and social effects of slavery. **<span style="font-family: 'SerifaStd-Bold','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt;">War and Diplomacy ** <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Armed conflict from the precolonial period to the twenty-first century; impact of war <span style="font-family: 'CenturyOldStyleStd-Regular','serif'; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">on American foreign policy and on politics, economy, and society.