United States History History / Social Sciences | Grade 11 | Fulfills History Requirement
United States History introduces students to the history of the United States with an emphasis on the transformative events of cultural, economic, and political significance from the colonial period to the present. Questions for student exploration throughout the year include: How did cultural contact challenge the identities and value systems of people from the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe? Can political freedom exist without an economic foundation? Does equality in a democratic society depend upon government action? Students explore these and other enduring questions through the Revolutionary Era, the Constitutional Convention, Jacksonian Democracy, antebellum slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and the course concludes with an examination of the Great Depression and New Deal, the Cold War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Themes include the politics of race, class, and gender, and the social upheaval of migration and economic transformation. Over the course of the year, students develop the intellectual and analytical tools needed to structure an argument, write a paper, and deliver a presentation.
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