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Details	1850-1890 marked the period when the fundamental issues of conflict among the founding fathers exploded over the question of states' rights and the slavery issue. This course examines the political party system, slavery question and social reform, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the frontier and the emergence of the American Empire.(Sp, alternate years)