Course Name: American Civic Literacy

Course Number: HIS100

Textbook(s): OpenStax College. (2013). U.S. History. Houston, TX: OpenStax CNX. Retrieved from https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history

Required Readings:

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text

The Bill of Rights Institute. Federalist 39. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/federalist-no-39

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/

USHistory.org. Hamilton's Financial Plan. https://www.ushistory.org/US/18b.asp

Economicshelp.org. Mercantilism theory and examples.

https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/17553/trade/mercantilism-theory-and-examples/

Economicshelp.org. Advantages of Free Trade. https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/1941/trade/advantages-of-freetrade/

Wilkinson, Freddie. National Geographic. (May 30, 2025) Industrialization, Labor and Life.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/industrialization-labor-and-life/

Wilkinson, Freddie. National Geographic. (Nov. 15, 2025) Industrial Revolution and Technology

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/industrial-revolution-and-technology/

History In Charts. (Sept. 14, 2022) Why was the Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision Important?

https://historyincharts.com/dred-scott-supreme-court-decision-important/

Jefferson Davis, in The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Fourth Series (1900),

I, 104-106. https://archive.org/details/americanhistoryt00ivunse/page/188/mode/2up as included in Allosso, Dan.

American History Told By Contemporaries.

https://minnstate.pressbooks.pub/ushistory1/chapter/principles-of-the-confederacy-1861/

Hale, Benjamin. (Nov. 14, 2023). Emancipation Proclamation: Effects, Impacts and Outcomes. History Cooperative.

https://historycooperative.org/effects-emancipation-proclamation/

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation/transcript.html

American Battlefield Trust. Gettysburg. https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/gettysburg

National Constitution Center. The Gettysburg Address (1863). https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historicPage 1 of 4Rev. 05/2025