CP & LEP Course Description

United States History is a survey of historical data, themes, concepts, personalities, and interpretations necessary to a basic understanding of our nation’s past from the Progressive Era (1890s) to contemporary times. While the course does provide a short review of our nation’s beginnings and its development in the nineteenth century, this course is essentially a study of twentieth-century America. Students acquire, explore, and question central ideas and interpretations in American history and develop more effective writing and thinking skills. Major historical periods and topics include:

• The Progressive Era
• World War I
• The Jazz Age
• The Great Depression
• World War II
• The Cold War
• Hemispheric Relationships in the Postwar Era
• Civil Rights Movement
• Postwar American Society
• The United States in Recent Times

This course fulfills the district and state U.S. History requirement, and the U.S. History requirement for the universities.