The US Constitution

  1. The Constitutional convention and separation of powers in the US Constitution
  2. Relations with native American nations from the colonial era through the Trail of Tears
  3. The institution of slavery, including the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the 3/S5ths clause, and the abolitionist movement
  4. The causes of the Civil War, including the Compromise of 1850,Kansas-Nebraska Act, red Scott decision, the secession of southern states and establishment of the Confederacy.