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Thus there is a tendency throughout the country to place the formal history of the United States in Grade V. Many school systems, however, continue to teach it in Grades IV or VI.

US History I curriculum topics should include: Voyages of Columbus and the relationship between the explorers and the American Indians. Colonization, the different colonies, and colonial life. The Declaration of Independence, the Revolutionary war, the constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

United States History II provides an overview of the history of the U.S. and its effects on American society from Reconstruction following the Civil War to the post-9/11 era.

The History of the United States I exam covers U.S. history from early European colonization to the end of Reconstruction.

Key topics include early globalization and European exploration, colonial societies, the English Empire, America's War for Independence, the creation of the American Republic, the industrial transformation, Jacksonian democracy, westward expansion, “King” Cotton and idealism in the antebellum South, the troubled 1850s, ...