As this course begins, you will be introduced to our first President of the United States and engage in the difficulties that our first executive officer faced as he began to shape this new nation. As the course progresses you will share in the growing pains that accompanied this new nation's quest to maintain freedom for some and slavery for others. You finally arrive in a society on the brink of civil war as the nation divides over the issue of slavery. American History is an extraordinary story of leadership, conflict, failure, and success. Welcome to US History A.