College Prep American History

Description:
A thematic approach to the history of our nation, with themes drawn from the social science disciplines, providing an understanding of how past events affect us today. Additional skills learned throughout the course will culminate in one final research project. College Prep Program requirement

This High School Course is also offered as part of the College Prep Correspondence Diploma program.

Credits: 1 Unit

Course ID: SS06

Course Area: Social Studies

Course Type: College Prep

Study Method: Correspondence

Key Topics:
What Europeans found in America; the first colonies; forming a new nation; Jefferson in power; struggles of a young nation; the Jacksonian era; the Industrial Revolution; the failure of politicians; the Civil War; to punish or to forgive? the passing of the Frontier; the nation transformed; the challenge of cities; politics in the guilded age; the U.S. and the world; the progressive era; WWI; return to normalcy; the Great Depression; "nothing to fear but fear itself"; reshaping American life; clouds of war; WWII; Truman: neither war nor peace; Eisenhower, moderate Republican; mobile people and magic machines; the Kennedy era; LBJ: from the great society to Vietnam; the rise and fall of Richard Nixon; the Civil Rights era; the Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton presidencies; the emergence of a new world.

Text:
A History of the United States, Pearson Custom Publishing