Course curriculum

    1. How to use this course

    2. Before we begin...

    1. Video: The Articles of Confederation

    2. Let's Talk Articles of Confederation

    3. Video: Shays' Rebellion: Revolt Against the Revolution

    4. Why Start with a Congress?

    5. The Constitution: How did it Happen?

    1. Video: Differences Between Parliament and Congress

    2. Federalist v. Anti-Federalists

    3. Why a Bicameral Legislature?

    4. The Great Comprimise

    5. How is that Different from Parliament?

    6. Compare: Congress and Parliament

    7. Article: In the Mother of Parliaments, This Is How Democracy Dies

    1. Jeffersonian Era

    2. Video: Jacksonian Democracy

    3. Congress in the Civil War

    4. Article: The Civil War's Tragic Legacy

    1. Women's Suffrage

    2. Article: How FDR's New Deal changed the U.S.

    3. Congress and the Great Depression

    4. Article: FDR’s ‘New Deal’ Worsened and Prolonged the Great Depression

    5. Post WWII Congressional Expansion

    6. Civil Rights

    1. Video: History v. Richard Nixon

    2. Watergate Scandal

    3. 1970 Congressional Reform

    4. Post 9/11 Congress

    5. Financial Crisis of 2008

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