HIST& 146: US History I

1. Identify important people, developments, and ideas that have shaped American history from colonization to the War of 1812, including ways historical events and processes have been organized into definable but often tenuous chronological periods.  

2. Explain how ideas about democracy, freedom, and individualism found expression in the development of cultural values and institutions.

3. Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions and party systems developed and changed.

4. Explain how different labor systems developed, and explain their effects on worker’s lives and U.S. society.

5. Explain how different group identities, including racial, ethnic, class, region, and religion have emerged and changed over time.

6. Explain the causes of migration to colonial North American, and later, the United States, and analyze immigration’s effects on society.

7. Identify and articulate parallels between challenges of the past and the issues of today.

8. Analyze, synthesize, and present information and knowledge pertaining to American history.

9. Demonstrate communication skills, both written and oral, by employing primary evidence in support of carefully formed conclusions regarding the historical record of the American past.