US HistoryQ&A by dot point

Analyze the major civil rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Twenty-fourth Amendment, and the federal government's role in protecting rights (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).

Analyze the major Cold War conflicts, including the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War, and the arms race and space race (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).

Analyze the rights movements that followed the African American civil rights movement, including the women's movement, the Latino and Chicano movement led by figures such as Cesar Chavez, and the American Indian movement (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the second Red Scare and McCarthyism, including loyalty investigations and the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the resulting tension between national security and civil liberties (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).

Analyze the origins of the Cold War, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the policy of containment, including the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and NATO (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

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 (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).

Analyze the rise of the labor movement, major strikes and unions such as the American Federation of Labor under Samuel Gompers, and the laissez-faire relationship between business and government in the Gilded Age (TEKS US History RC4 Economics; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the causes of the new immigration after 1880, the growth of cities, the responses of nativism and the political machine, and the cultural changes that resulted (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC1 History).

Analyze the causes and effects of late nineteenth century industrialization, the rise of big business and entrepreneurs such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and the free enterprise system (TEKS US History RC4 Economics, Science, Technology, and Society; RC1 History).

Analyze the goals and achievements of the Progressive movement, including the muckrakers, reform of business and government, and the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics; RC1 History).

Analyze the economic grievances of farmers, the rise of the Grange and the Populist (People's) Party, its platform including free silver, and its long-term influence (TEKS US History RC4 Economics; RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).

Analyze the woman suffrage movement, the leadership of Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt, the strategies used, and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).

Analyze the causes of American imperialism, the acquisition of overseas territories, and the debate between imperialists and anti-imperialists (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC2 Geography and Culture; RC4 Economics).

Analyze the causes of the Spanish-American War, including yellow journalism and the USS Maine, the outcomes of the war, and its significance for American power (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC2 Geography and Culture).

Analyze the causes of World War I, US neutrality, and the reasons the United States entered the war in 1917, including unrestricted submarine warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).

Analyze Wilson's Fourteen Points, the Treaty of Versailles, the debate over the League of Nations, and the US return to isolationism (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).

Analyze the effects of World War I on the home front, including mobilization, propaganda, the Great Migration, opportunities for women, and limits on civil liberties such as the Espionage and Sedition Acts and Schenck v. United States (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC2 Geography and Culture).

Analyze the demographic, political, and social changes of the contemporary United States, including immigration and the growth of the Sunbelt, the continuing expansion of rights, and ongoing political debates (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the war on terror including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the tension between national security and civil liberties (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the impact of the technological revolution (the computer and the internet) and globalization on the American economy and society from the late twentieth century to today (TEKS US History RC4 Economics, Science, Technology, and Society; RC2 Geography and Culture).

Analyze the rise of modern conservatism, the Watergate scandal and its effect on trust in government, and the policies of the Reagan era (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics).

Analyze the end of the Cold War, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the resulting position of the United States in the world (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the causes of the Great Depression, including the stock market crash of 1929, overproduction, bank failures, and uneven wealth, and its effects on American life (TEKS US History RC4 Economics; RC1 History).

Analyze the social tensions of the 1920s, including Prohibition, nativism and immigration restriction, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, and the clash between modernism and fundamentalism in the Scopes Trial (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the debate over the New Deal, including criticism from the left and right, the Supreme Court conflict, and the New Deal's lasting impact on the relationship between citizens and the federal government (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC1 History).

Analyze the causes of the Dust Bowl, including drought and farming practices, and its effects, including migration from the Great Plains, as an example of human-environment interaction (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).

Analyze the New Deal under Franklin D. Roosevelt, including relief, recovery, and reform programs such as the CCC, WPA, and Social Security, and the expansion of the federal government's role (TEKS US History RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics).

Analyze the economic prosperity and consumer culture of the 1920s, new technology, the Harlem Renaissance and jazz, and changing roles for women (TEKS US History RC4 Economics, Science, Technology, and Society; RC2 Geography and Culture).

Analyze the causes of World War II, including the rise of totalitarian and fascist regimes, the failure of the Treaty of Versailles and the policy of appeasement, and American isolationism (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the Pacific theater, the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the consequences of the war, including the founding of the United Nations (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).

Analyze the major turning points of the war in Europe, including D-Day, and the Holocaust as a genocide carried out by Nazi Germany (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC3 Government and Citizenship).

Analyze the end of American neutrality, the attack on Pearl Harbor, US entry into World War II, and the country's role in the Allied war effort (TEKS US History RC1 History; RC4 Science, Technology, and Society).

Analyze the effects of World War II on the home front, including economic mobilization, new roles for women and minorities, the Bracero Program, and the internment of Japanese Americans and Korematsu v. United States (TEKS US History RC2 Geography and Culture; RC3 Government and Citizenship; RC4 Economics).