uNITED STATES HISTORY

US History explores in depth history, civics, geography, and economics themes in US History from Industrial Revolution to present. This course builds on skills which will include cause and effect relationships, analysis, evaluation, and the use of primary sources to prepare students for the 21st Century. The following three strands will be incorporated throughout the course:  Gather and analyze historical information, including contradictory data, from a variety of primary and secondary sources, to support or reject hypotheses and/or create a historical argument. Differentiate between facts and historical interpretations, recognizing that a historian’s narrative reflects his or her judgment about the significance of particular facts. Analyze ideas critical to the understanding of American history. Topics to include but not limited to populism, progressivism, isolationism, imperialism, anti-communism, environmentalism, liberalism, fundamentalism, and conservatism.