Thesis Statements
Thesis statement examples
V. Sample thesis statements....
The formation of the Committee for Industrial Organization in 1935 served to broaden the basis
of social democracy in the United States and expanded workers’ rights.
House Un-American Activities Committee unsuccessfully (or successfully) searched for
communists and fascists within the government and elsewhere for thirty seven years before
quietly expiring.
The riots in Detroit and Harlem during World War II vividly demonstrated the contradiction
between the United States’ fight for freedom abroad and the denial of basic freedoms for African
Americans at home.
The integration of Central High School became the first major test of civil rights after the 1954
Supreme Court decision banning segregation.
For almost sixty years, racial segregation had been established by law in the United States; the
Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education changed race relations in the United
States.
Jackie Robinson established himself as a major league baseball player and reinforced the
hypocracy of racism in the “land of the free.”
With the support of President Teddy Roosevelt and diverse consumer support, Congress finally
passed laws that provided America with some protection in the purchase of food and drugs.
Upton Sinclair’s novel about labor exploitation and unsanitary conditions in the meat packing
industry shocked the American public and expedited government reform.
Immigration legislation in 1921 created a quota system that favored the nations of northern and
western Europe and put an end to the idea of the United States as a melting pot.
The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was the
culmination of several decades of struggle.
The American Civil Liberties Union was formed to defend equal rights for all, including rights to
free speech, due process and freedom of the press.
Ku Klux Klan violence against both blacks and whites in the name of racial and moral purity r
reached a high between 1921 and 1924.
The United of Nations was created in the attempt to preserve international peace by means of
multicultural diplomacy and collective action against any state committing an act of aggression.
The Panama Canal was a ten year engineering project that changed international trade and ocean
navigation.