HIST 2010 Early United States History

3 (3 lecture hours) Credit Hour(s)

General Education Learning Outcomes (TBR Approved)

• Analyze historical facts and interpretations.
• Analyze and compare political, geographic, economic, social, cultural, religious, and intellectual institutions, structures, and processes across a range of historical periods and cultures.
• Recognize and articulate the diversity of human experience across a range of historical periods and the complexities of a global culture and society.
• Draw on a historical perspective to evaluate contemporary problems/issues.
• Analyze the contributions of past cultures/societies to the contemporary world.

• Students will be able to describe and analyze how the experiences of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans, in the aftermath of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the Western Hemisphere, affected and changed each group and how they influenced events in North America.
• Students can identify and analyze the social, technological, and political developments that shaped the nation’s founding and analyze how they shaped the nation’s history in the 19th century.
• Students can analyze the development and history of slavery in the United States and how it shaped American History in the 19th century.
• Students can explain how and why the North gradually won the Civil War between 1863 and 1865.
• Students will be able to analyze what African Americans in the South looked forward to now that they were free, and describe the actual conditions they encountered during the first years of Reconstruction.