Introduction: A Review of American History before 1877

Where did the United States come from?

1 | What made the colonies so different if they were all settled by people from the same country?
British Colonial America

2 | What is freedom?
Revolution & the New Government

3 | Was the spread of the United States across the continent destiny or design?
Westward Expansion

4 | Was the Civil War a righteous judgement for America’s embrace of slavery?
Slavery & the Civil War

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