This course provides students the opportunity to explore and study the era from 1492 through 1877 the Reconstruction. This course provides the students with the opportunity to explore historical thinking, colonization to independence, a new nation, expansion of territory, Civil War and Reconstruction. Geography: accessing, reading, interpreting and creating maps and other geographic representations for tools of analysis, Studying geographic factors that promote or impede movement and products, and learning the roles and systems of government and how individuals can influence their government.