Description

This history program helps middle school students understand America’s past and its impact today. The topics covered include:

• America, Africa, and Europe before 1500
• New Empires in the Americas
• The English Colonies
• The American Revolution
• Forming a Government
• Citizenship and the Constitution
• Launching the Nation
• War and Expansion in the Americas
• A New National Identity
• The Age of Jackson
• Westward Expansion
• Expansion and Conflict
• The North
• The South
• Slavery in the United States
• Reform Movements in the United States
• A Divided Nation
• The Civil War
• Reconstruction
• The Industrial Age
• Immigrants and Urban Life
• The Progressive Spirit of Reform
• America as a World Power
• World War I
• The Roaring Twenties
• The Great Depression
• World War II
• The Cold War
• The Vietnam War Years
• The Civil Rights Movement
• Searching for Order
• The Twenty-First Century