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