United States History to 1876

This course is a survey of American history from the pre-Columbian era to the end of Reconstruction. Among the topics to be explored are: pre-Columbian Americans, European exploration and colonization of the Americas, African slavery and the Atlantic trade, British Colonial America, the American move to Independence and the establishment of the United States, the Early Republic and the Age of Jackson, Westward Expansion and Sectionalism, and lastly the Civil War and Reconstruction.