Credit Hours:3 Lecture Hours:3 Contact Hour Total:48 A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, and intellectual history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era to the Civil War/Reconstruction period. United States History I includes the study of pre-Columbian, colonial, revolutionary, early national, slavery and sectionalism, and the Civil War/Reconstruction eras. Themes that may be addressed in United States History I include: American settlement and diversity, American culture, religion, civil and human rights, technological change, economic change, immigration and migration, and creation of the federal government. Prerequisite(s): A student must be college ready in reading according to TSI college-ready standards. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Lower Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) course