Transfers ToNot transferableDescriptionThis course is a historical survey of the United States, from Indigenous North America to the end of Reconstruction. The course also introduces students to historical reasoning skills. It surveys United States history from its European, African, and Native American origins to 1877. It analyzes many of America's political, social, economic, and intellectual institutions as they impact ethnic, racial, gender, and class relations, and how these influence American contemporary life. These analyses also emphasize such historical concepts as cause and effect, multiple causation, and historical interpretation.