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High School Cambridge AICE United States History I AS Level

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Suggested Prerequisites

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Description

In this course, you will explore the people, events, and ideas that shaped the course of the United States from 1820-1941. Lesson content will cover political history, cultural history, economic history, and racial history through the key concepts of cause and consequence, change and continuity, interpretations, significance, and similarity and differences. You will achieve a level of mastery in U.S. History to help yourself on the exam and help be prepared to enter higher education.

Module One: Dawn of Sectionalism

-Differences between the North and the South

-Westward expansion

-Intro to Paper 1 exam


Module Two: Road to War

-Causes of the Civil War

-Intro to Paper 2 exam


Module Three: Brother versus Brother

-The Civil War

-Emancipation Proclamation

-Black life during the Civil War


Module Four: Rebuilding a Nation

-Presidential reconstruction

-Congressional reconstruction

-Black codes

-Grant's presidency

-End of reconstruction

Module Five: The Guilded Age

-Post-war industrialization

-Robber barons

-Tariffs

-Urbanization

-Rise of labor movement


Module Six: Path to Reform

-Progressive movement

-Progressive presidents

-Constitutional reforms


Module Seven: Decent into Depression

-The Great Crash

-The Great Depression

-Hoover and the depression


Module Eight: Economic Repair

-The New Deal

-The Second New Deal

-Opposition to the New Deal

-Legacy of the New Deal


Module Nine: AICE United States History Exam Review

-Review of the orgins of the Civil War

-Review of the Civil War and Reconstruction

-Review of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era

-Review of the Great Crash, the Depression, and the New Deal Policies

-Writing skills review