U.S. History I: Discovery through Reconstruction**

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This course focuses on the history of the United States from pre-European discovery, through settlement and growth, the American Revolution, the Young Republic, antebellum America, the Civil War and Reconstruction. Major events will be introduced and analyzed along with political, economic, social and cultural challenges that faced America. In addition, the roles of Native Americans, African slaves and their descendants and women will be explored in sections of the course.