A guide to information that will be relevant to the U.S. History in high school. There are links and commentary on how to prepare for the experience

Information on citizenship from our classroom textbook

Using the Constitution and Bill of Rights to expand the new nation: politically, socially, economically, artistically, technologically, and geographically.

Electoral College, the Executive Branch, and the Judicial Branch

The first U.S. election of a president

The effects of Thomas Jefferson's election in 1800

Washington to Monroe (1788-1825)

There were several presidents that tried to tackle how to expand the United States. These of presidents that used projects to settle, expand, and homogenize the country. The result was not always ethical or moral though as populations clashes with indigenous peoples.

From the ending of Polk's presidency to the election and Civil War with Abraham Lincoln, there is policy, politics, social issues, and economics that play into the war between the states (north v. south/ blue v. grey)

Setting up a national banking system to support the growth the new nation

This Broadway production is phenom blend of history, action, and music about the life of... Alexander Hamilton!

The idea of Manifest Destiny and how it led to conflict with Native Americans as settlers headed west

Events leading up to, during, and immediately after the Civil War in the United States of America between the North and the South

This movie wonderfully encapsulates the other side of the 100 years between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement. Examine it for the history, the emotion, and of course the stereotypes of each character to answer if he/she overcomes it by the end of the narrative.