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Courses » Social Studies » U.S. History
One Semester (Block); One Credit
Degree of Difficulty: Regular
Prerequisite: none Homework: Average
This is a high school course in American history meant to provide students with a baseline narrative of the nation’s course from early American civilization to the present. Subjects covered will include Discovery and Settlement of the New World 1492-1650, America and the British Empire 1650-1754, Colonial Society in the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Road to Revolution 1754-1775, The American Revolution 1775-1783, Constitution and New Republic 1776-1800, The Age of Jefferson 1800-1816, Nationalism and Economic Expansion, Sectionalism, Age of Jackson 1828-1848, Territorial Expansion and Sectional Crisis, Creating an American culture, The 1850’s, and Decade of crisis and Civil War, Reconstruction, the rise of industrialism, Western expansion, Populism and Progressivism, the rise of Jim Crow segregation, immigration, WW I, the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, WWI II, the Cold War and McCarthyism, the 60s and 70s, the rise of conservative Republican politics, and the Clinton Era. Text: The Americans, McDougall Files |  |
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