Learning about history allows people to see how far we have come and what may await us on our path to the future. In this course, students explore the history of the United States and analyze the cause and effect in historical events. They investigate history by using the tools of a historian to examine the historical, geographic, political, economic, religious, and sociological events that influenced the development of the United States. Students imagine what it was like to live in the past by reading the stories from the people who experienced it.

This course begins with the engaging stories of what brought the earliest American colonists to the New World and ends with the struggles to repair the United States following the Civil War.