US History

Term: Year

Prerequisites: None

Credit: 1

Fee: None

Grade: 10

This course examines the history of the United States of America from 1877 to the present. The federal republic has

withstood challenges to its national security and expanded the rights and roles of its citizens. The episodes of its past

have shaped the nature of the country today and prepared it to attend to the challenges of tomorrow. Understanding how

these events came to pass and their meaning for today’s citizens is the purpose of this course. The concepts of historical

thinking introduced in earlier grades continue to build with students locating and analyzing primary and secondary

sources from multiple perspectives to draw conclusions.