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College Prep United States History (Period 6)

Course Description

United States History is a full year, two-semester course that is centered on a full-scale, focused analysis of United States history through various scopes of study.  The course begins with a review of the founding of the United States through colonization and Enlightenment ideals and philosophies, revolution and independence, the establishment and maturization of our constitutional government, westward expansion, growing political theorization, regional conflicts and the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the growth of America as an industrial power.  During the first semester, the course will examine the nation’s founding, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, westward expansion, regional differences and the conflict of the Civil War, Reconstruction, populism and the Progressive Era, Big Stick Diplomacy and the Imperialistic Age, and the American role in World War I and its aftermath.  The course will conclude in the second semester, with a focus on the Jazz Age, the Great Depression, America’s role in WWII, the Cold War and its effect of America's foreign policy, the civil rights movement in the post war era, and changes in American society with an emphasis on social, political, and economic trends.

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