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Thematic Essay Topic
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Reasons and impact of Congressional legislation
Positive and negative effects of technology on American society.
Supreme Court Decisions
Territorial Acquisition
Foreign Policy: The Cold War
Foreign Policy: Promoting and protecting national interests.
Important Congressional Legislation:
Reasons and Impact (Cause and effect essay)
Reform movements due to
Industrialization
Foreign Policy: how the US dealt with international problems.
Supreme Court Decisions
How geography impacted two important events in US History.
Constitutional Amendments
Document Based Essay
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Controversial Presidential decisions impacting civil liberties: Lincoln suspending Habeas Corpus, FDR relocating Japanese- American's, George W. Bush signing the USA PATRIOT ACT
Causes ad results of the Korean War, Vietnam War and/ or Persian Gulf war
Writers on issues: Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”,
Betty Friednan’s “Feminine Mystique”, Martin
Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
Presidents at war: Woodrow Wilson, FDR (prior to
Pearl Harbor), civil liberties and post war results
Controversial Issues: Ratification of the
Constitution, The Louisiana Purchase, Expanding slavery into the territories
The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties: Plessy v
Ferguson (1896) & Brown v Board of Education
Key events of the 1950s: The Korean War, The
Montgomery Bus Boycott, The launching of Sputnik
Limits to civil liberties: Alien & Sedition Act (WWI),
Executive Order 9066 (WW2), The Patriot Act
People Movements: Abolitionism, the Labor
Movement, Women’s Suffrage
Sectionalism: Social, political and/or economic issues that divided the North and South
Expansion of Democracy
1920s and 1930s: Similarities and differences.
Supreme Court and Diversity:
Constitutional Rights
Presidential actions: Foreign and domestic policies.
Technology: Positive and negative effects on American society.
Writings and reforms: Individuals, groups and/or institutions
Supreme Court Decisions
Constitutional Principle: Individual rights.
Migrations within the United States
Government actions to improve the economy.
Individuals (Other than Presidents) that created change.
Cold War attitudes and events during the presidencies of JFK, Nixon and Reagan
Positive and negative effects of geography on the development of the United States
Reform Movements: Temperance, Women’s
Suffrage, Ending Child Labor
The influence of water on America’s development:
Rivers, canals, oceans, lakes
Presidential Leadership: George Washington,
Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Industrialization between the Civil War and WWI
(Social, Political and/or economic)
Impact of the Warren led Supreme Court decisions on American Society
Social, Political and/or Economic impact of the automobile.
Presidential Domestic Crisis: the Civil War, the
Bonus Army March, Little Rock, Ark. 1957

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