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Middle School Middle School US History

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Description

Learning about history allows people to see how far we have come and what awaits us on our path to the future. In this course, students will explore the history of the United States and analyze the cause and effect in historical events. They will investigate history by using the tools of a historian to examine the historical, geographic, political, economic, and sociological events that influenced the development of the United States. Students will 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. Engaging in this study allows students to recognize the themes of history that span across centuries and leads to a greater appreciation of the development of the United States and the resulting impact on world history.

Module One: Settlement

-America's geography

-Coming to America

-Colonial regions

-Economics and slavery

-How history is written


Module Two: Independence

-Impact of colonization

-French and Indian War

-Colonial unity

-American Revolution


Module Three: Nationalism

-Historical interpretation

-The Constitution

-Building U.S. identity and culture

-The common good

-Individual rights and responsibility


Module Four: Growth

-The early presidents and impact

-Territorial expansion and exploration

-War of 1812



Module Five: Movement

-Manifest Destiny

-Native Americans

-Political compromises related to slavery

-Expansion to the West Coast

-Economic and technological changes

-The Mexican-American War


Module Six: Advances

-Industrial growth

-Factory system

-Urbanization

-Southern plantation system

-Jacksonian democracy

-Power struggles between the federal and state governments


Module Seven: Ideas

-Second Great Awakening

-Experiences of enslaved persons

-Social reform movements

-Literary movements


Module Eight: Conflict

-The divided nation

-Perspectives

-The Civil War causes and course

-Emancipation

-Reconstruction