Course Notes: Us History: 1840 1877: Expansion and Slavery

John Green teaches you about relations between the early English colonists and the native people they encountered in the New World. In short, these relations were poor. As soon as they arrived, the English were in conflict with the...

Overview of life after slavery for African Americans.

The end of the Civil War, including Lee's surrender at Appomattox and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. [10:38]

Comprehensive U.S. History course learning module on the New Deal and WWII. Multi-media and interactive lessons, assignments, projects and tests.

This video lesson from Khan Academy covers Period 7: 1890-1945 in American History. The sinking of the Lusitania, and its connection to President Woodrow Wilson's declaration of war is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed...

The Kansas-Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, reopened the debate over the expansion of slavery in the United States.

Take this five question quiz over US history during the mid 1800s.

In which John Green teaches you about the end of the Cold War and the presidency of George H.W. Bush. On the domestic front, the first president Bush inherited the relative prosperity of the later Reagan years and watched that prosperity...

Unit explores, through a series of videos from notable scholars, the effects of the trade in slaves and of slavery itself on the new Americans of the time and helps students to understand how history, and the telling of history, affects...

South of New England, half of all immigrants arrived in various forms of unfreedom: as indentured servants, apprentices, tenants, convicts, or slaves. George Washington's namesake--a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses named George...