Duration
10 Months
Prerequisites
None
Requirements
None
Course Summary
This course explores key events in early American history, including historical thinking skills, colonial America, the American Revolution, the U.S. Constitution, and early presidencies. It also covers the Louisiana Purchase, industrialization, westward expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Students will analyze the causes, effects, and lasting impact of these events on the nation.
By the end of this course, you will be able to do the following:
• Assess primary and secondary sources.
• Analyze historical data and events to interpret the past.
• Understand the development of colonial America.
• Examine the causes and effects of the American Revolution.
• Explain the creation of the US Constitution.
• Analyze the views of Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
• Explain the administrations of George Washington and John Adams.
• Analyze the importance of the election of 1800
· Analyze the importance of the Louisiana Purchase.
· Identify the causes and effects of the War of 1812.
· Analyze the importance of the Louisiana Purchase.
· Identify the causes and effects of the War of 1812.
· Analyze the impact of industrialization on the United States in the early 1800s.
· Explain the growth of the Monroe era.
· Analyze Andrew Jackson’s actions as president.
· Explain the effects of westward expansion.
· Describe reform movements of the 1800s.
· Explain the differences between the North and the South before the Civil War.
· Trace the origins of the abolitionist movement in the United States.
· Examine the causes, major events, and impact of the Civil War.
· Analyze the Reconstruction period after the Civil War.