What do Americans learn in history classes in school?

Question

To be fair, your history only started like 300 years ago, and the only exciting thing was the war of independence. Before that was all just slave labour and mass murder of the native tinao peoples. I'm confused as to how you people manage to get such a long time studying your own history.

P.S I am aware that you must be looking at world history too, but focusing on the history of the Americas for now.

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Actually that's about 500 years of history. It started with Columbus, essentially, or if you want to include the Native Americans, about 10,000 years ago. Slavery was a legacy of the British,Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Ottoman and French empires. It was common for most ancient people to enslave their enemies. Much of what happened in America was a reflection of what was going on in Europe at the time. America was for a long time and even today is a place where the overworked and under-appreciated peoples of Europe could escape and find a new and often better life.



I can't say that if all I knew about American history was what I learned in school, it would amount to much. Most of what I know about world history I learned from reading on my own. In general, the more you know about a subject the more you realize how much you don't know.

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History is like a Bible, there are negative and good things you will learned. Not all are positive or else the world will be no color.

Some will tell you something like this:

I can't say that if all I knew about American history was what I learned in school, it would amount to much. Most of what I know about world history I learned from reading on my own. In general, the more you know about a subject the more you realize how much you don't know.

Or this:

"American" history goes back a lot further than the 239 years that have passed since the Declaration of Independence. Lexington and Concord isn't the 1st chapter in American history books. Do you think Britons disregard Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex because there was no UK back then? Do the French omit the study of Gaul? From the Norse landings to Henry Hudson to Roanoke to Peter Stuyvesant to Plymouth to King Philip's War, to the Seven Years War, French and Indian War, the War of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, the War of 1812, the age of invention, the Gold Rush, the Alamo, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Manifest Destiny, the Spanish American War, the melting pot, the Great War, the Roaring 20's, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Normandy, the Space Race, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War... Anyone who thinks that American History isn't rich and deep and interesting and varied is a fool......

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Well, after the War for Independence, there was the War of 1812, the American Civil War, Manifest Destiny and the Oregon Trail and the Donner Party, The Roaring Twenties, The Great Depression, America's involvement in two World Wars, the dropping of the atomic bomb, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War. Not to mention events like Watergate and the Cuban Missile Crisis. We study how the various US territories were added, the various immigration waves in American history, and important political events. Seriously, over 500 years, America went from a ragtag collection of rebellious English colonies to a world superpower that stretches the width of a continent. Do you really think that happened in such a short time without a VERY exciting history?

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I won't read all the answers, but I don't doubt the Americans learned many of the same things as we Canadians learned about our nation. There were the discoverers and explorers. Columbus, Cartier, Cabot, De Soto, Pizzaro, Cortez, La Salle, Henrik Hudson. There were the settlements. They probably got more about Plymouth and Jamestown and we got more about Halifax and Montreal. The native North Americans of course, and, depending on changing attitudes since the 1960s, whether they were exploited and how. The fur trade and the rum trade affected both sides of what would become our border. The fur trade also pushed the explorers westward. So did the search for the Northwest passage to Asia. The Seven Years War (or the French and Indian War) that saw the end of New France and lit the slow fuse for the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and possibly the Upper and Lower Canada rebellions of 1837. Of course the Americans were concentrating on their history by then, and we were concentrating on the history of our own lands. Whenever events between us collided, we learned about them too -- or at least we in Canada did. It was hard for us to avoid the Underground Railroad and the American Civil War. So many of our boys (and a girl) fought for either side, and Mr. Seward was threatening to invade and annex us. And after that, our histories were connected even more to European and world histories with the wars, recessions, industrial and social advancements and changes of the 20th century.



So what did Europe learn about itself - or itselves, since I presume that you tended to follow your own nation's history more than you did your neighbours', let alone your North American colonies (that is if you are British.)

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Well, perhaps this is alien to foreigners but the Revolutionary War is not the only "exciting thing" in our history. Most of our history lessons i can assure , start from Jamestown. We learn about when we were English property aswell you know. Yes the Revolutionary war is important, but we have been in quite other feuds aswell such as The War of 1812 against the British, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War to name a few. These all changed our nation in a large scale.The War of 1812 increased respect toward the United States around the world whether you are willing to believe it or not, and it also taught is to not be so reliant on trade with other nations. The Mexican American War is truthfully, not a happy topic, but nonetheless covered in history. It describes on how at a point, we took almost half of the land of our next door neighboors in order to expand to the Pacific Ocean. Yes , greedy, but we are all humans, wherever the hell you are, your nation has attempted the same thing aswell.During the Civil War , we experienced the bloodiest war in american history along with the blooming of industry, all for our own different ideals, which is definetiily a lengthy topic.There are more but these are the major parts. Now , you must remember , the US is not a small country , we are comprised of many states or territories if you prefer, and we all learn our own history. For example , i was raised on Texas and here we learn about how we were at a point part of Mexico and about our independence and annexation to the United States (which not everyone agreed with). In high school , world history becomes a bigger focus. That is including the World Wars, which i assure you, we most definitely changed the whole world whether you accept it or not, for the good or for the bad.

All this is not "propaganda". All of which i have said is true. Yes, we can have made a LOT of mistakes along the way, but so has everyone else. The Atom Bomb? Yeah, guess who were the first fools to toy around with it? Us.Was it a good thing? Probably not. This it affect you , it sure does.

I don't by any means attempt to sound cocky or a mindless patriot, but you should reconsider before insulting a nation's history, there is more than meets the eye you know.

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Ha that's a laugh I'm the only kid in my history classes that could even draw a map of the United States or the world for that matter. We don't get taught anything that why kids think history is useless and boring. For example in newyork state we get a massive test at the end of the first two years of world history when I took mine there was 1 and I'm not shitting you 1 question about world war 2 one of the most important event in the world it set the foundation for present day politics and allowed America to become a super power and for that it warrants 1 question so kids will know how many men landed on the beaches of Normandy (that was the question) but won't think it was important who were are allies or enemies. Our educational system is awful

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"American" history goes back a lot further than the 239 years that have passed since the Declaration of Independence. Lexington and Concord isn't the 1st chapter in American history books. Do you think Britons disregard Mercia, Northumbria and Wessex because there was no UK back then? Do the French omit the study of Gaul? From the Norse landings to Henry Hudson to Roanoke to Peter Stuyvesant to Plymouth to King Philip's War, to the Seven Years War, French and Indian War, the War of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, the War of 1812, the age of invention, the Gold Rush, the Alamo, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Manifest Destiny, the Spanish American War, the melting pot, the Great War, the Roaring 20's, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Normandy, the Space Race, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War... Anyone who thinks that American History isn't rich and deep and interesting and varied is a fool.

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Our history is much more complex. Ever heard of our Civil War? It ended 150 years ago and is still being studied, analyzed and discussed. Same thing with our westward expansion. Yes, aspects of that expansion were not exactly honorable. We study it in part because we'd rather not repeat it. And Pancho Villa? Why'd we take action towards him? Or the Spanish-American war - what was that all about? And how about the Great Depression that seriously impacted not just us but the entire world? And what's the Yad Vashim memorial all about? How about our sports stars? Our motion picture industry? Industrialists like Henry Ford? Our medical research that leads the world? Youngster, you got a lot to learn about America and our history!

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We do not learn much, We learn the same thing every year from elementary to high school. Just revise the same thing every year so we don't learn what we need to nothing that is truly important or anything that truly educates us on our Plutocratic government.



In other words, We only learn what little they want us to know, We don't learn the truth behind 9/11, we don't learn the truth of why we only go to war with countries without a central banking system, We don't learn that our government should be afraid of the people - rather than the people afraid of the government which is what we live today. Our education is corrupt, our schools set the students up for failure, we are not a Democracy anymore (Although I don't think we ever were) we are a Plutocrat country that uses "terrorism" as a fear tactic to focus our attention on something or someone else so we have someone to hate someone to fear and someone that we may direct all that hatred and fear to so they can further their agenda. It's almost Sleight of Hand in the masses of 320 million people. In a way, they direct our attention with TV Media and propaganda which keep us focused on that while they do something else.



We get to watch The Simpsons, They get to choose how they get a Rothschild owned bank in the country whether it be done legally or not. Our government begins with the banking system, Ends with it to.



I bet you never learned that in school. You never will. As long as we are kept dumb with technology and media we will never learn what we need to be learning. And that's how to live.

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I'm currently taking AP US history and we started with the ancient civilizations in America and we talked a lot about corn because everyone except the Incas used corn as their main food source that provided the energy needed to build. Then we jump ahead to Christopher Columbus and the things going on in Europe during that time and during the time the Europeans were colonizing we still look at what's going on in Europe and how it affected Americans. It was a while before we got to the American revolution and after that there's still all sorts of issues with European countries and the issue of American neutrality which leads to the war of 1812 and then the issues going on after that lead up to the civil war and we pretty much take it one president at a time. Most of the work we do in class though is analyzing primary sources so we're learning practical historical and critical thinking skills in addition to very in depth American history.

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It depends on what grade you re in. In my school we learned different types of history depending on grades, if you were a freshman you learned modern world history, or a sophomore you learned American history. We also learned about ancient civilization, and later on in high school you can pick what kind of history class you want to take. It usually depends on where you live cause people from the Board of Education usually decide the curriculum.

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As a high school Freshman, I can say that we do not only learn about United States History.

In fourth and fifth grade you learn the basics of important events like the civil war, our government, etc.

Then you get to 6th grade where you learn about ancient, history the first people, and civilizations.

In seventh grade, you move farther in time and learn about Rome, Sparta, and how older forms of government are similar to today s. In eighth grade, you learn United States Part I.

From the 1600s when the Americas were discovered to the mid-late 1800s and our Civil War. We learn about our government and the Civil War much more in depth.

In 9th grade, you pick up with the Civil War, a recap of government, and learn about American History to the present.

In tenth grade, you learn World History. That involves, from what I ve heard, French, British, and the History of other huge countries.

In eleventh or 12th grade you may be required to take a government or economics class to prepare yourself for the real world.

In reality, American Children only learn in-depth American history for two years while the rest of the time is learning about ancient civilizations and history about the rest of the world. Some of the years for the classes vary by schools and states, but for the most part that is how it works.

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What ever the A) philosophy or learning objective for the class , or the teacher is and B) what ever was written by the authors of the history text book is fact , which in fact , may not be accurate or even true. And American Government or Civics class is almost never offered or taught. Learning the true history and principals of our United States and how the government was mandated to be run , is a radical and out dated idea. Which is wrong. More or less you will learn what is socially engineered for you to learn through public school via politicians and their globalist , new world order vision by keeping the truth and principals of liberty from you and teaching you contrary doctrines.

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. I'm in eight grade and we do learn about American history but we learn events that occurred before the 1700s such as colonialism in the 1500s and more. Heck for an American Revolution unit we studied European scientist and philosophers who impact the American Revolution. In detailed so far in the eight grade we've learned about colonial Roanoke colonial Janestown, Mercantilism, the Great awakening, the englightenment, the scientific revolution, the seven years war/ French and Indian war and the American Revolution. I heard that later in the years we're going to learn about the civil war era. We learn more than just our history. In 6 and 7 grade we learned about the ancient civilizations such as Rome Mesopotamia, Greece. We also learned about the Middle Ages in 6 and 7 grade such as the Silk Road and medieval Europe.

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Well my school went very in depth in our history so it took a lot more time. And much of it was also spent on world history, especially Europe since that is where our founders were from and had in common with.

There's a lot of information in just that 300 years so very easy to fill a lot of time on it. The creation of a country is very busy with a lot of history in the making!

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In American History class we learn how the American form of government is in deep historical debt to the French Revolution, the British establishment of the House of Parliament, the Romans, the Greeks. We are taught the pro's and con's of the American revolution, the way England treated the colonies and why, what the French-Indian war meant to the developing colonies, why England thought the colonies should share the financial burden, why the English form of taxing the colonies was unjust. How the distant English governmental control was floundering, why, and how antagonizing it was. What were the revolutionary colonist's advantages, weaknesses, what part did France have in our success, where did that leave France! Why the first form of Colonial government failed, what it's weakness were, why it was changed, what were the hazards, what safeguards were in place, what methods were in place to improve it. Why was it unique in the World? ...on & on....

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At school in England they taught me American history (a minimum of Canadian history, but 75% US history), stopping in 1867, after which, I suppose, it ceased to be history and became politics. I think this was very mistaken: it is only after the end of Reconstruction and the beginning of Jim Crow, the Guilded Age and the opening up of the far west that U.S. history becomes interesting--or significant. I have been lucky enough to have learned later about Latin American history, and in particular that of Brazil, which is really needed to put North American history in context, but that, I fear, is well outside the US high school curriculum.

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Since history can't exist in a vacuum, we obviously have to go back further than the Revolution and even Columbus. My eighth grade US history class started with the Magna Carta in 1215 because that was the beginning of limiting the power of the king. One could argue that Theseus and the first-ever democracy are relevant to US history as well, but you're much more likely to hear about him in English class.

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From what I recall in high school we were taught that Americans invented everything ( including the wheel and speech), won every war ( including Vietnam, 1812, and the Peloponnesian), and has never ever done anything wrong in its entire history ( they teach that slave thing as though it happened in an alternate dimension where Lincoln didn't have a beard.)

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They learn events that occurred in the past, things such as the first president, how African American's were treated before African's rights, the different types of amendments. The students just get past knowledge of things that have happened in the past few years, so if they're making a rise in political type of job, or going for president, they know the circumstances, since they know of the past mistakes people have made, there's more to it but this is basically the base of what they learn....

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Across the world, in history classes, we all learn about the history of the most important things that happened in life such as the industrial revolution and Slave Trade which are nothing to do with America ALONE. So we learn about things in other countries not just America. :)

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"American History" starts with the Norse colony in Canada, but at the newest it starts in 1492 with Columbus. You ignorant statement that American history starts "like 300 years ago" but that would be only 1715 yet European settlements in the USA started must earlier than that. I can assume you just desire to start foolish agreements by your troll like statements or ignorance of the grand history of the Americans.



I guess in a nut shell, a bunch of mostly uneducated farmers BEAT the English Army, which was the best army in the world until that time. Yea America !

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Sounds like somebody is a little jealous.



We learn that when first established America was the greatest genetic composition assembled anywhere on earth. While the lazy first born sons remained in Europe, the ambitious younger stock were forged in the crucible of hardship and ascended through capitalism to become the greatest society ever produced on earth. As the European ancestors were content to lounge in subjugation, we were born in rebellion, casting off the tyranny of aristocracy. We pretty much invented everything. We are the globe's uncontested economic and military superpower. We are a nation of dreamers, inventors, artists, builders and doers. We exalt in achievement, rebound from failure and encourage one another every step of the way, from the little league, to the majors, in every walk of life.



What do you study? How you used to have Kings and be great, then descended into mediocrity where you are powerless, failing, and rely on America to defend you and dictate your popular culture? Yes, 0bama sucks because he is a socialist that aspires to be a mediocre European welfare state, but he is transient. Go ahead and finish digging that grave of yours. A muslim is coming by to look at your house this afternoon.

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I don't know about others, but MY "American History" courses went back to about 2500 BCE!



You are clearly confusing AMERICAN HISTORY with "The History of America Since The European Expansion".



Early Mesoamerican civilizations begun with Olmec societies around La Venta around 1500 BCE. The cultivation of maise and religion were first noted here and the follow on civilizations of the Zapotec-as, Teotihuacan, and Mayans. These civilizations were extremely complex. They all share characteristics of mound or pyramid building, polytheistic beliefs, and the cultivation of maize. These early civilizations were organized into city-states. The Pre-Olmec cultures had flourished in the area since about 2500 BCE, but by 1600–1500 BCE, Early Olmec culture had emerged. They were the first Mesoamerican civilization and laid many of the foundations for the civilizations that followed.



Andean civilizations were started by the Moche, Chimu, and Nazaca. Much like their Mesoamerican counterparts they were primarily agriculture. The potato along with maize were their main agriculture products. They also showed belief in the afterlife as they practiced mummification.



Let's not forget about the great empires of the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas. The pyramids of Tenochtitlan amazed the Spanish conquistadors along with the practice of human sacrifice. The history and achievements of the Aztecs are quite extraordinary as they were able to create a major civilization on Lake Texocco. The Incas did not construct pyramids but ritualistic sites such as Machu Picchu show how skilled the Incas were at architectural construction.



Many falsely assume that "American History" begins with Columbus; Pre-Columbian societies were highly advanced societies with complex institutions. That included highly structured priests/warrior elites that managed a skilled bureaucracy.



The most interesting part of American History took place before the Europeans stuck their big feet into the picture!

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It is why most Americans who come in this web site have no feel of things before Christ.In a recent instance one guy was talking of United States of America in 9th century (probably he meant 19th century). Such significant errors are often committed.

What they should do is to dig deep in to the common past (not the WASP part alone) of the native Americans. The epitome of this imbecility is to call of them "Indians", even naming a state as "Indiana" - so much so, kids under 5 need to reach the age of 18 or so to learn what & where is India. I am sure many of the American Historians of repute may have to unlearn helluva lot before properly learning History, as is meant in the old world.

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US 1-Assimilation,Pioneers,Slavery,Immigration

US 2-New Deal,Propaganda,Civil Rights

A Changing World-Globalization,Exploration,Isolation,Human Rights

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Well, what about the American Civil War? Lots of help you Europeans were, completing ignoring your moral duty to suffocate the Confederacy with sanctions. The only nation that was any help was Russia, as a social reform minded czar sent Lincoln troops (he sent them back, saying it was an internal matter, but really not wanting to give the British and French an excuse to help the South).

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***, I think it depends on how you define school. In public elementary school, the most specific memory I have is of studying the history of my home state and town, which I still remember to this day with great joy. In public high school, as I recall, we studied world history in one semester, US history in a second, and US government in a third. In college, I took a course specifically on my state's history as I thought I might become a teacher, but as an English major, the history I truly studied was through the eyes of authors of fiction.

As for the study of the Americas as a whole, my formal education was limited.

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My best answer is: Not a lot. Of course, you have to understand that many US citizens have a vague idea that they actually came from somewhere else, and you can't expect US schools to teach the history of of the UK, France, Germany, Scandanavia etc., etc. Let alone that of the, possibly, first people to inhabit the North American Continent.

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We learn about past wars (like WWI, WWII and the Cold War), ancient cultures. We learn about Christopher Columbus and how he first got to America. I also remember learning about Martin Luther King and his speech, "I Have A Dream." One time when I was studying US History (11th grade), we were given a homework assignment to write a page and a half about our family's ancestry and family past. My ancestors were some of the British colonists (that's how my last name got to America).

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My highschool history teacher mentioned this back in the day. Americans learn their 300 year history in greater detail than say China, which has a 4000 year saga of epic proportions. America also focuses a lot on it's European roots. There is also a healthy dose of propaganda in America history classes, leading to the belief that their history is somehow more important than other countries'.

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I'm 17 in highschool we learn only about white people sadly no one else in history and only thing we learn about black people which is closet we'll ever get is Fuc king SLAVERY yep it sucks but is this way cause whites think their interior more like Whitory and Whitelish not history which includes everyone in U.S United States and not English just books white people wrote which contains RACISM towards BLACKS like segregation and SLAVERY recently we had two slaves books this year and RACISM and sexism they love the word **** a in books oh and sexism I don't even read any more I counted only fiction book in my school library with black main character is one and it's sorcery and people hate Obama cause he's black but they want racist trump really? And talk about the shootings of black men dieing innocent by racist cops that get away and RACISM in schools I can't even get foreign language class

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An assortment of 'just so' stories and misinformation around approved topics, which are presented inaccurately and out of proportion. WW2 is largely studied as the history of the holocaust, (though the significance of the Wannsee conference and its 1943 date is not in the syllabus) Ann Frank is studied, not just as a contemporary document, but as English Literature (!) and while a strange version of the career of Mohandas Gandhi is studied, Jinnah and Nehru are not.

The 'War of 1812' is studied, but there is a strange absence of attention paid to Napoleon's Grand Army of 600,000 men that were marching on Russia at the time!

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American History has more to talk about than world history.

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We spend so much time studying our 300 years of history because of how much we've accomplished in the last 300 years. Although our independence was a major event, we have many other historical events that are important to history. Look up all of the Wars that America has taken part in, I think you'll be surprised at the extensive list.You should also take into consideration the history of America's presidents, constitution, various movements, entertainment, and all of the other things that have contributed to America's success. America has no chill, we make history on the daily.

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Nothing too important. We studied Greek mythology for a little bit. And I can't get over the fact that every one grows up thinking Christopher Columbus discovered America. Or they can leave out things like we had jappenes concentration camps!!!

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Kindergarten to 5th grade/year, American History, 6th to 12th grade/year it's a mix of World and American history.

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Our history is rich and rewarding for those who practice democracy. No nation on earth has engulfed and assimilated different nations and races of people into one society. there were other wars in which America helped other countries to defeat the rising and evil powers called The Axis. We take our democracy and it s laws from the greeks and the romans as well as the bible.

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most people do not understand what history class is all about.most teachers do not understand history because college taught them to read out of a book on history.history is what happen in the past can happen in the future

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We must not forget to learn the future of history in the present because the future will be the past soon and if we don't take lessons from the lost anals of history we are doomed to repeat it all over again, again.

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To be fair-it's easier to study 300 years of history, paying close attention to phases like the War of 1812 and the New Deal, than it is to study clusters of 500-year phases like the social effects of the Norman Invasion, the causes of the English Civil War, and the loss of empire.

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Some people believe that the American Civil War, World War I and World War II are not totally unworthy of study.

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The difference between America and almost every other country in the world

is that Americans seem to be taught NOTHING except the history of their own country.

In every other country they teach WORLD history in schools.

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The main things we talk about are the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. We also talk about America's role in World War 1 and 2, and others wars the US had a part in.

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An edited version of American history with all the negative/bad aspects of America glossed over. Especially the massive slaughtering of Natives in America replaced with the words colonization/exploration of America.

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American history.

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in high school they learn didily squat, especially in mine since the majority of them were taught by football coaches. in college history classes, you learn different perspectives in American History typically.

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Simple answer because no one ever learns as history all ways repeats itself , there fore it is a way of preparing the younger generation for whats about to happen...

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three quarters of Americans couldn't place Ukraine on the map before the recent troubles there Iraq too economics is more important everything has economic overtones money is history science geography the cost of it all that is American knowledge

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That America is the greatest country ever. That American slave owners invented freedom and democracy. That our wars are wonderful. That we bought the land that Native Americans had lived on for centuries from France. That we bought Alaska from Russia. That God blesses us. Probably kind of like what schoolkids learned under the Third Reich.

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Americans learn all about when we landed on America and forward.

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Plenty of eciting things have happened in america apart from the war of indpendence. What about the colonial period? Or the Civil war for instance? and the Civil Rights movement? The space race? Hollywood? Jazz music? Prohibition?

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+++Whatever the History Teacher and the faculty decide. It could depend on the grade, because , in school, it has always been basic history, which includes George Washington.

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Yes

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In American History we started with leaning about the Puritans and indentured servants and then on from there

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We learned how we kicked Britain's behind in the war for Independence.



Then we learned how we kicked the South's behind in the American Civil War.



Then we learned how we kicked Germany's behind... Twice... and saved the whole world!



Then we learned that we kicked Japan's behind and dropped two nukes on them just because we kicked ***!



This is the TRUTH.

We learned that we literally 'kick a$$'



No one messes with US!

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The native tiano people? Who are they?



I'm very well versed in American history.. can't say I'm familiar.

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An over-view of how this country came into being, what happened after independence was earned, and how America came to be the way it is now.

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People in America are pretentious and they believe their history is more important than anything else. It's just pretentious crap hidden under a veil 'patriotism'

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Actually a lot of the history books aren't accurate.

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All about America. They don't have a clue about Canada or the rest of the world. Pitty. They should be taught about the world.

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There is also the part where the Americans try yo hide or downplay the fact that the USA lost the War of 1812.

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There's been people here for thousands of years ! It just wasn't called America ...

We aren't taught the truth anyway .

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we also study what happened before we became a country. like native American tribes sometimes.

also theres so much. like the gold rush, ww2, civil wars, discovery of America, geography of America, theres aton more but I cant remember it all at the moment.

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Well, in only 300 years we have had a pretty big impact on the rest of the world. For better or worse.

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Event dates with little interactive significance to other events in history...sad but too true !

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"Those who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them." Clearly not much then. (Afghanistan, French-Indo China, etc)



That aside, they learn the history of their homeland as we all do. It just doesn't take them very long.

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very Little about Vietnam WW2 WW1 and Trading with the enemy few Know this



America with the collusion of the vice-chairman of the U.S. War Production Board in partnership with Göring's cousin in Philadelphia when American forces were desperately short of them? Or that such arrangements were known about in Washington and either sanctioned or deliberately ignored?



For the government did sanction dubious transactions—both before and after Pearl Harbor. A presidential edict, issued six days after December 7, 1941, actually set up the legislation whereby licensing arrangements for trading with the enemy could officially be granted.



Often during the years after Pearl Harbor the government permitted such trading. For example, ITT was allowed to continue its relations with the Axis and Japan until 1945, even though that conglomerate was regarded as an official instrument of United States Intelligence.



No attempt was made to prevent Ford from retaining its interests for the Germans in Occupied France, nor were the Chase Bank or the Morgan Bank expressly forbidden to keep open their branches in Occupied Paris. It is indicated that the Reichsbank and Nazi Ministry of Economics made promises to certain U.S. corporate leaders that their properties would not be injured after the Führer was victorious.



Thus, the bosses of the multinationals as we know them today had a six-spot on every side of the dice cube. Whichever side won the war, the powers that really ran nations would not be adversely affected.



And it is important to consider the size of American investments in Nazi Germany at the time of Pearl Harbor. These amounted to an estimated total of $475 million. Standard Oil of New Jersey had $120 million invested there; General Motors had $35 million; ITT had $30 million; and Ford had $17.5 million. Though it would have been more patriotic to have allowed Nazi Germany to confiscate these companies for the duration—to nationalize them or to absorb them into Hermann Göring's industrial empire—it was clearly more practical to insure them protection from seizure by allowing them to remain in special holding companies, the money accumulating until war's end. It is interesting that whereas there is no evidence of any serious attempt by Roosevelt to impeach the guilty in the United States,



reason FDR was afraid of Upsetting Corporate USA whose Cooperation was desperately needed to win the War in the Pacific





Now watch the Thumbs down and abuse



see what i mean Telling the Truth is called anti American well americans try telling the Truth yourself and i wont need to



I bet My 4 thumbs down can tell me the name of every President But i bet it never helped them get a Job Or exactly where Lichtenstein is without using Google earth

Answer 71

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI55RAf_tVQ We should be learning this. They heavily edit history to deceive people. Get a kjversion Bible and believe. Jesus Christ is the truth.

Answer 72

Like most people around the world, American students in the U.S. learn a carefully-crafted and politically-motivated history that benefits the home-country narrative and is supposed to "build better citizens." Happily, like the rest of the world, people can investigate historical narratives for themselves, though, and read and study enough to be well-informed individuals. Like the types of informed individuals that don't condescendingly sneer at others for "only" having "300 years" of history.

Answer 73

Europe/Asia...where History, art, civilization was invented....

Answer 74

Western expansion, industrial age , gilded age, imperialism ,ww1, the roaring 20's, the great depression , the new deal , ww2

Answer 75

I thought about answering this, but since it's a loaded question I'll give you a free picture.

Answer 76

We don't recieve the proper education actually we really needed to boost our skills

Answer 77

history began when kevin Owens won the intercontinental championship belt

Answer 78

Ah yes, another jealous foreigner. Sorry dude, not everyone can be a cool American.

Answer 79

We learn historical inaccuracies.

Answer 80

well, first of all it's Taino Indians, not what you spelled; strike one



and they were killed by disease they caught from Spaniards Two Hundred and Seventy years before there was a United States; strike two



and you forgot the part where the US saved most of Europe and the world from totalitarian governments three times in the last hundred years.

Strike Three.



Thanks for playing.

Answer 81

The patriarchy's version of events.

Answer 82

Yes, although i wish it was more current "history"

Answer 83

Wars that happened, other continents, mostly wars and trading

Answer 84

according to son unit which he iz a super sonic grad smasher, said dey lerning abroud earf burn, liberal steam roller, and how to meik hail to satan.

Answer 85

Mostly multiculturalism

Answer 86

Good question

Answer 87

Based on the questions and especially the answers, not much.

Answer 88

History is one of the most despised subjects in any American school. Most students day dream or sleep right through it. Most Americans don't know anything about their history. The timeline is a little longer than 300 years though. It's more like 500. But hey, don't judge us. We have the whole world kissing our feet.

Answer 89

You're an idiot.

Answer 90

Nothing but lies and patriotism.

Answer 91

that the epicanthic fold is to be avoided

Answer 92

The inferiority of the black race. Or at least they should