Christmas Break Homework

Given the following LEQ's, choose 3 prompts from each section for a total of 9. For each chosen question, write 1) a good thesis & 2) a bulleted list of 5-7 facts/outside information that would be helpful to writing the essay (specific details that would count as evidence for the essays.) This is due Tuesday 1/8/19 when we return.

Cause/Effect

Analyze the effect of the French and Indian War and its aftermath on the relationship between Great Britain and the British colonies. Confine your response to the period from 1754 to 1776.

Analyze how western expansion contributed to growing sectional tensions between the North and the South. Confine your answer to the period from 1800 to 1850.

Analyze the origins and outcomes of the intense cultural conflicts of the 1920s. In your response, focus on TWO of the following.

Immigration

Prohibition

Religion

Analyze the ways in which the political, economic, and diplomatic crises of the 1780s shaped the provisions of the United States Constitution.

Analyze the origins and development of slavery in Britain’s North American colonies in the period 1607 to 1776.

Analyze the effects of the Vietnam War on TWO of the following in the United States in the period from 1961 to 1975.

The presidency

The population between 18 and 35 years old

Cold War diplomacy

Explain the causes and consequences of TWO of the following population movements in the United States during the period 1945–1985.

Suburbanization

The growth of the Sun Belt

Immigration to the United States

Compare/Contrast

Compare and contrast the British, French, and Spanish imperial goals in North America between 1580 and 1763.

Compare and contrast the Cold War foreign policies of TWO of the following presidents.

Harry Truman (1945–1953)

Dwight Eisenhower (1953–1961)

Richard Nixon (1969–1974)

Compare and contrast the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Compare and contrast the women’s rights movement of the 1840s–1860s with the women’s rights movement of the 1960s–1980s.

Compare and contrast the ways that many Americans expressed their opposition to immigrants in the 1840s–1850s with the ways that many Americans expressed their opposition to immigrants in the 1910s–1920s.

African American leaders have responded to racial discrimination in the United States in a variety of ways. Compare and contrast the goals and strategies of African American leaders in the 1890s –1920s with the goals and strategies of African American leaders in the 1950s –1960s.

Compare and contrast the experience of slaves on tobacco plantations in the early seventeenth-century Chesapeake region with that of slaves on nineteenth-century cotton plantations in the Deep South. What forces transformed the institution of slavery from the early seventeenth century to the nineteenth century?

Change/Continuity

Analyze the extent to which US foreign policy goals contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostering change from the end of WWI (1918) to the end of the Korean War (1953).

Evaluate the extent to which the goals of conservatives contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostered change from the 1950s through the 1980s

Evaluate the extent to which trans-Atlantic interactions from 1600 to 1763 contributed to maintaining continuity as well as fostered change in labor systems in the British North American colonies.