Course Description:  This course will take you from the Atlantic World c.700 B.C. through the Civil War and all the way to the present day.  Along the way several topics and events that have shaped U.S.  History will be covered.

 

Text/Technology:  Discovering our Past:  A History of the United States.

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Course Outline:  We will get through as much as possible. Students will continue their talk about American History in 9th grade.

 
    • Prehistory through 1607
    • European Colonization of America
    • The Road to Independence
    • The Constitution of the United States
    • Growth and Westward Expansion
    • Coming of the Civil War, Civil War, Reconstruction
    • Reshaping Modern America
    • World Wars
    • Post World War Era
    • Contemporary America
    • Present day America