US HistoryQ&A by dot point

Analyze federal policy toward American Indians in the late 1800s, including the destruction of the buffalo, the reservation system, conflicts such as Wounded Knee, the Dawes Act, and the assault on tribal sovereignty and culture (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.02).

Explain the causes and effects of the new immigration from southern and eastern Europe and Asia, the growth of cities, the rise of nativism, and the reform response, including geographic patterns of settlement (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.07).

Explain the causes of rapid industrialization after the Civil War, the rise of big business and the captains of industry, monopolies and trusts, and the early government response such as the Sherman Antitrust Act (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.04 and US.05).

Analyze the politics and society of the Gilded Age, including political machines and corruption, the gap between rich and poor, and the rise of labor unions and major strikes (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.06).

Explain the political and economic consequences of the Compromise of 1877, the rise of the New South, and the system of segregation and disfranchisement that replaced Reconstruction (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.01).

Explain how the Homestead Act, the transcontinental railroad, mining, and the cattle and farming economy drove the settlement and development of the West, and the geographic factors involved (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.02 and US.03).

Compare the ideas and strategies of African American leaders such as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Ida B. Wells, and the founding of the NAACP, in response to Jim Crow and racial violence (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.10).

Explain the causes of American imperialism, the Spanish-American War, the territories the United States acquired, and policies such as the Open Door and the Panama Canal (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.11 and US.12).

Explain the political and democratic reforms of the Progressive Era, including the initiative, referendum, and recall, and the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments, with attention to the woman suffrage movement (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.09).

Explain the effects of World War I on the home front, including mobilization, civil liberties, and the Great Migration, and the peace settlement, including the Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, and the rejection of the League of Nations (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.14).

Analyze the goals and methods of the Progressive movement, including the muckrakers, business regulation, and the reform presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.08).

Explain the causes of World War I, the reasons the United States abandoned neutrality and entered the war, and the American military contribution (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.13).

Explain the major Cold War conflicts and crises, including the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the arms and space races, and the Vietnam War (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.36 and US.42).

Explain the causes and effects of postwar economic prosperity, including the GI Bill, suburbanization, the baby boom, consumer culture, and the geographic shift to the Sunbelt (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.38).

Analyze the goals, strategies, key events, and leaders of the civil rights movement, including Brown v. Board of Education, nonviolent protest, the major laws it won, and Tennessee's role (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.44 and US.45).

Explain the Great Society programs and the social movements of the 1960s, including the War on Poverty, Medicare and Medicaid, and the women's, environmental, and other rights movements (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.46).

Explain the origins of the Cold War, the policy of containment, and early measures such as the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.35).

Explain the effects of the Cold War on American society, including the second Red Scare and McCarthyism, the fear of nuclear war, and the impact on civil liberties (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.37).

Analyze the social and cultural changes of the late twentieth century, including immigration and a more diverse population, the continuing struggle for equal rights, and changing roles in society (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.49).

Analyze Tennessee's geography, economy, and connections to national history from post-Reconstruction to the present, applying geographic and economic reasoning to the state's role (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.61).

Explain the rise of modern conservatism, including the Reagan Revolution, supply-side economics, debates over the role of government, and the major presidencies of the late twentieth century (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.48).

Explain the impact of the technology and communications revolution and economic globalization on the United States from 1970 to the present (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.50).

Explain the events and causes that ended the Cold War, including détente, Reagan's policies, the reforms of Gorbachev, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the collapse of the Soviet Union (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.47).

Explain the September 11, 2001, attacks, the war on terror, and the major developments and challenges of the United States in the early twenty-first century (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.51 and US.60).

Analyze the cultural and social conflicts of the 1920s, including Prohibition, immigration restriction and the Red Scare, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, and the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.20).

Explain the causes of the Great Depression, including the stock market crash of 1929, overproduction, uneven wealth, weak banks, and buying on margin and credit (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.21).

Analyze the human impact of the Great Depression, including unemployment, bank failures, the Dust Bowl, and Hoovervilles, and President Hoover's limited response (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.22).

Explain the goals and major programs of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, including relief, recovery, and reform, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Social Security, and the lasting expansion of the federal government (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.23).

Explain the economic prosperity and social and cultural changes of the 1920s, including mass production and consumer culture, the automobile, women's changing roles, and the Harlem Renaissance (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.19).

Explain the attack on Pearl Harbor, the American declaration of war, and the mobilization of the economy and the military for total war (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.29).

Explain the Holocaust and the human cost of World War II, and the postwar settlement, including the United Nations, the Nuremberg Trials, and the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as superpowers (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.33 and US.34).

Analyze the effects of World War II on the American home front, including the new roles of women and minorities, the Double V campaign, and the internment of Japanese Americans (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.32).

Explain the rise of fascism and totalitarian dictators, the policy of appeasement, and the move of the United States from isolationism toward involvement before Pearl Harbor (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.28).

Explain the major turning points and strategy of World War II in the European and Pacific theaters, including D-Day, island hopping, and the decision to use the atomic bomb (Tennessee Academic Standards for Social Studies, United States History and Geography, US.30 and US.31).