US HistoryQ&A by dot point

Analyze the major civil rights laws, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Twenty-fourth Amendment, and the role of Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze major Cold War conflicts and crises, including the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the arms race, and the space race (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the rights movements that followed the African American civil rights movement, including the women's movement, the farm workers and Latino movement, the American Indian Movement, and the counterculture of the 1960s (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the second Red Scare and McCarthyism, including HUAC, loyalty programs, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the impact on civil liberties (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the origins of the Cold War, the ideological conflict between capitalism and communism, the policy of containment, the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO (NGSSS SS.912.A.6 and A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the African American civil rights movement, including Brown v. Board of Education, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, nonviolent protest, and leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the causes of American imperialism, including economic, military, and ideological motives, the annexation of Hawaii, and foreign policies such as the Open Door, the Roosevelt Corollary, and dollar diplomacy (NGSSS SS.912.A.4, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the causes and consequences of the Spanish-American War, including yellow journalism, the explosion of the USS Maine, the acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, and the debate between imperialists and anti-imperialists (NGSSS SS.912.A.4, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the causes of World War I, the reasons the United States entered the war in 1917, including unrestricted submarine warfare, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the Zimmermann Telegram, and the American contribution to Allied victory (NGSSS SS.912.A.5, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, the Senate debate and rejection of the treaty, and the return to isolationism after World War I (NGSSS SS.912.A.5, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the impact of World War I on the home front, including war mobilization, propaganda, the Espionage and Sedition Acts and limits on civil liberties, Schenck v. United States, and the Great Migration (NGSSS SS.912.A.5, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the rise of the labor movement, the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor, major strikes such as Homestead and Pullman, working conditions, and the laissez-faire role of government in labor disputes (NGSSS SS.912.A.3, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the causes and effects of the new immigration from southern and eastern Europe, the growth of cities, nativism and the Chinese Exclusion Act, political machines, and the push and pull factors that drove migration (NGSSS SS.912.A.3, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the causes and effects of the Second Industrial Revolution, the rise of corporations and entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, the growth of trusts and monopolies, and the free enterprise system (NGSSS SS.912.A.3, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the Progressive movement, the muckrakers, trust-busting and consumer protection, the reforms of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and the constitutional amendments that expanded democracy (NGSSS SS.912.A.4, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the grievances of farmers, the Grange and the Populist (People's) Party, the demand for free silver, the election of 1896, and the lasting influence of the Populist platform (NGSSS SS.912.A.3, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the woman suffrage movement, leaders such as Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt, the strategies of the suffragists, and the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment (NGSSS SS.912.A.4, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze recent developments in the contemporary United States, including political milestones, the Great Recession of 2008, expanding rights, and ongoing debates over the role of government (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the War on Terror, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the debate over security and civil liberties (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the impact of new technology and globalization, including the computer and internet revolution, the shift to a service and information economy, free trade agreements such as NAFTA, and immigration in the modern era (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the rise of modern conservatism, the election of Ronald Reagan, Reaganomics and supply-side economics, and the conservative response to the Great Society (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the end of the Cold War, including Reagan's military buildup and diplomacy, Gorbachev's reforms, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union (NGSSS SS.912.A.7, Reporting Category 3).

Analyze the causes of the Great Depression, including the stock market crash of 1929, overproduction, buying on margin and credit, bank failures, and the unequal distribution of wealth, and its impact on Americans (NGSSS SS.912.A.5 and A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze the cultural and social conflicts of the 1920s, including Prohibition, the Red Scare, immigration restriction and quotas, the revived Ku Klux Klan, nativism, and the Scopes Trial (NGSSS SS.912.A.5, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the impact and legacy of the New Deal, including the debate over its constitutionality, the Supreme Court conflict, criticisms from left and right, and its lasting effect on the role of government (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl, including drought and poor farming practices, the migration of Okies to California, and its connection to the Great Depression (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, its goals of relief, recovery, and reform, key programs such as the CCC, WPA, TVA, and Social Security, and the expanded role of the federal government (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze the economic and cultural features of the 1920s, including mass production and consumerism, the automobile, radio and movies, the Harlem Renaissance, and changing roles for women (NGSSS SS.912.A.5, Reporting Category 1).

Analyze the causes of World War II, including the rise of totalitarian dictators and aggression, the failure of appeasement, and American isolationism and the Neutrality Acts before US entry (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze the war in the Pacific, the strategy of island hopping, the development of the atomic bomb through the Manhattan Project, the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the surrender of Japan (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze the Holocaust as Nazi Germany's systematic genocide, the war in Europe from D-Day to V-E Day, and the liberation of the concentration camps (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze the steps from neutrality to war, including Lend-Lease, the attack on Pearl Harbor and the US declaration of war, and the major Allied and Axis powers and turning points of the war (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).

Analyze the impact of World War II on the home front, including war production and the end of the Depression, women in the workforce (Rosa the Riveter), opportunities and discrimination for minorities, and the internment of Japanese Americans and Korematsu v. United States (NGSSS SS.912.A.6, Reporting Category 2).