American history
Colony-to-superpower chronicle
American history is the study of events, people, and developments in what is now the United States, from pre-Columbian times through the present.
The phrase often implies the standard narrative taught in schools—colonization, revolution, westward expansion, civil war, world wars, civil rights.
Someone who says I slept through American history means the class, not the subject itself.
- Thirteen ColoniesBritish North American territories
- AbolitionismMovement to end slavery
- ConstitutionGoverning principles document
- Constitutional ConventionDocument-drafting assembly of founders
- Bill of RightsInitial constitutional amendments guaranteeing freedoms
Civil War · Founding Fathers · Emancipation Proclamation · Reconstruction Era · War of 1812 · Vietnam War · Jamestown · historian · Voting Rights Act · World War II · Great Depression · Jim Crow · Declaration of Independence · Cold War · Trail of Tears · Wounded Knee · patriots · scholar
- History Bookstextbook, biography, memoir, chronicle, anthology
- Americas StudiesAmerican studies, American culture, American literature, American politics
- social studies literatureatlases, timelines, historical accounts, primary sources, government documents
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- social studiescivics, social studies, maps, economics, community
- school subjectsmath, English, science, reading, art
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