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'''''Next week: the final exam.  The homework is to prepare for it'''''.

'''''Next week: the final exam.  The homework is to prepare for it'''''.

This is the final lecture of the course, covering history through the [[9/11]] terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (typically the stopping point for American history), and then even up to 2013.

This is the final lecture of the course, covering history through the [[9/11]] terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (typically the stopping point for American history), and then even up to the election of Donald Trump as president.

Be able to identify overall trends in our history.  One trend is ever-increasing federal power.  Another trend is inflation.  A third trend is increased democracy.  A fourth trend is increasing American power in the world.  A fifth trend is the Supreme Court pushing us away from our religious roots.  In ''Engel v. Vitale'' (1962), the Supreme Court banned prayer in public schools.  Many consider this to be one of the Supreme Court's worst decisions ever.

Be able to identify overall trends in our history.  One trend is ever-increasing federal power.  Another trend is inflation.  A third trend is increased democracy.  A fourth trend is increasing American power in the world.  A fifth trend is the Supreme Court pushing us away from our religious roots.  In ''Engel v. Vitale'' (1962), the Supreme Court banned prayer in public schools.  Many consider this to be one of the Supreme Court's worst decisions ever.