U.S. History 

Course Description 

United States History is a semester long class and you are required to pass in order to graduate from Mauldin High. The course will begin with a brief chronological overview of the Colonial Era, the American Revolution, the Constitution, the rise of nationalism and sectionalism, westward expansion, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Industrial and Gilded Age, Immigration and Urbanization, the Populist and Labor Movement. The second quarter will focus on Imperialism and Progressivism leading into WWI and the decades which include the Great Depression, New Deal, WWII, Cold War, JFK and LBJ, Civil Rights and Women’s Rights, Korea and Vietnam, and moving right into the 21st Century. 

REQUIRED MATERIALS