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The course of American history

The first discoveries of the Americas (including Columbus, Vespucci and Cartier) - The colonisation of America - The American revolution; Thomas Jefferson - John Adams - George Washington - The making of the constitution - The Spirit of Reform : women's rights, free public schools, the temperance movement, the abolitionist movement; The south and the north - Civil war - The abolition of slavery - Abraham Lincoln - American minorities and women (Negroes, Afro-Americans, Indians); Literature and Religion - Labour reform and industrialisation - Theodore Roosevelt - The United States and World Affairs (World war 1 & 2); The economic boom - The Depression - Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson - Civil Rights - Nixon - the US and Latin America - the Vietnam War.

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