Dust Bowl of the 1930s
- Transcontinental railroad: What was its impact on westward expansion?
- Wealthy industrialists in the late 1800s: “Robber Barons” or “Captains of Industry”?
- Labor unions in the 1800s: What economic, social, and philosophical factors contributed to their formation?
- Immigration in the late 1800s: Discuss the “melting pot” vs. “salad bowl” metaphors.
- Child labor in the late 1800s/ early 1900s: What was the impact on society? How were reforms made?
- Muckrakers: What was the impact of this journalism on progressive reforms?
- Yellow journalism: What was its role in causing the Spanish-American War? (Hearst and Pulitzer)
- Spanish-American War: What were the causes and/or effects?
- Red Scare of the 1920s: What were the causes? What was the impact on immigrants and/or radicals? What was the role of A. Mitchell Palmer and/or J. Edgar Hoover?
- Prohibition: What were the causes? What was its impact on the development of organized crime?
- Dust Bowl of the 1930s: What were the causes and/or effects?
- Tuskegee Airmen: What obstacles did they face? How did they influence the struggle for African American rights?
- World War II: What was the impact of propaganda and its use in the United States?
- World War II: What contributions were made by Americans on the home front?
- Japanese Internment: Why did it occur? How did it affect Japanese-Americans?
- World War II: What were the contributions of women? How did it affect women’s employment?
- Truman’s containment policy: How was it implemented by the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Airlift?
- Brown v. Board of Education case: What was its impact?
- Cuban missile crisis: What were the reasons for the U.S. response? Evaluate the consequences of JFK’s actions.
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of 1963: What was its impact?
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination: Was James Earl Ray responsible?
- My Lai Massacre: What were the causes? Who was responsible?
- Kent State shootings: What were the contributing factors? Who was responsible?
- American Indian Movement (AIM) and the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee: What motivated the takeover? What was its impact on relations between Native Americans and the government?
- Watts riot: What were the causes? What were the effects on race relations in America?
- Sept. 11, 2001 attacks: How did the attacks affect American security policies? How did they impact U.S. foreign policy? How did they impact American views of Islam?