REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

 1.  Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.

 2.  De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.

 3.  Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space in United States History to Reconstruction.

 4.  Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.

 5.  Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in United States History to Reconstruction.

 6.  Analyze events in United States History to Reconstruction in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.

 7.  Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.

 8.  Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.

 9.  Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.

 10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.

 11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.

 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 I.    Native North America

 II.   Colonial North America, 1607-1763

 III.  Slavery in North America, 1619-1865

 IV.   North America at 1750

 V.    The American Revolution, 1763-1790

 VI.   The New Republic, 1790-1834

 VII.  Antebellum North America, 1820-1860

 VIII. Sectionalism and the American Civil War, 1854-1865