The Nation Divides and Reunites (1 quarter)

This course teaches history by encouraging students to walk in the shoes of a plantation owner, a slave, a freeman, a middle class northerner, and a very poor southerner.   How did the United States come to be a simmering pot of conflict which eventually erupted into the bloodiest American war.  Students are encouraged to learn from the past so they can realize how they themselves are also a part of history today. This course focuses on the causes or war, the war itself and the aftermath, known as “Reconstruction”.