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HIS 256
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Title: | History of Denver |
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Long Title: | History of Denver |
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Course Description: | Introduces students to the history of Denver. Incorporates academic and popular perspectives with emphasis on historically important facts and analysis as well as on the more colorful historical issues, events and personalities. Focuses primarily on the history of Denver from its founding during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush to the present time. Features the colorful people and the major events by which Denver established itself as the `Queen City of the High Plains.`~ |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
I. Gold-Rush Denver
A. Explain Denver¿s origins in the Gold Rush
B. Discuss the tragic high-plains Indian wars
C. Summarize Denver¿s early development as a city.
II. Economic Mushroom
A. Discuss how Denver emerged as the ¿Queen City¿
B. Summarize the crucial role of transportation systems in the urban area.
C. Summarize the role of the pioneer elite.
III. Social Fabrics.
A. Summarize early education and social services
B. Discuss the lifestyles of the ¿upper crust¿
C. Discuss the women¿s suffrage movement.
D. Summarize the economic collapse of the 1890s.
IV. Progressive Impulse
A. Discuss the more diversified economy of the 1900s
B. Analyze the goals of progressive reformers.
C. Evaluate the career of Mayor Speer and the City Beautiful movement.
V. Good Times/Bad Times
A. Generalize about the pastimes of Denver¿s people
B. Discuss the struggles of working class people
C. Summarize Denver¿s role as a melting pot.
VI. Troubled Times
A. Assess the rise and demise of the Ku Klux Klan
B. Discuss the devastation caused by the Depression
VII. City at War
A. Summarize the impact of rearmament and war
B. Discuss the causes of the postwar boom
VIII. Cars and Counties
A. Analyze the dramatic impact of the automobile
B. Discuss Araphoe County¿s role in the metroplex
IX. High-Plains Suburbia
A. Discuss Jefferson County¿s role in the metroplex
B. Discuss Boulder County¿s role in the metroplex.
C. Discuss Adams County¿s role in the metroplex.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Gold-Rush Denver
A. Explain Denver¿s origins in the Gold Rush
B. Discuss the tragic high-plains Indian wars
C. Summarize Denver¿s early development as a city.
II. Economic Mushroom
A. Discuss how Denver emerged as the ¿Queen City¿
B. Summarize the crucial role of transportation systems in the urban area.
C. Summarize the role of the pioneer elite.
III. Social Fabrics.
A. Summarize early education and social services
B. Discuss the lifestyles of the ¿upper crust¿
C. Discuss the women¿s suffrage movement.
D. Summarize the economic collapse of the 1890s.
IV. Progressive Impulse
A. Discuss the more diversified economy of the 1900s
B. Analyze the goals of progressive reformers.
C. Evaluate the career of Mayor Speer and the City Beautiful movement.
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