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SYNTHESIS! “Like in kind, but in a different time”
The rules: Once you see the initial topic, think of another event that you could connect it to, the broad theme that connects them, and be able to EXPLAIN the connection.
Expansion of US Territory and Power
• Connect the Louisiana Purchase to an event/trend either before it or after
Manifest Destiny/War with Mexico
US Imperialism/Spanish-American war
Increasing intervention/world power after WWII
Impact of Literature
Connect Uncle Tom’s Cabin to an event/trend either before it or after
Common Sense
How the Other Half Lives
Silent Spring
The Jungle The Feminine Mystique
The Other America
Clash Between the States and Federal Government
Connect the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions to an event/trend either before it or after
SC nullification crisis
Current marijuana laws—ex. Colorado
Current backlash to gay marriage laws/court rulings
Fugitive Slave Law/Anthony Burns
Internal Migration • Connect the First Great Migration to an
event/trend either before it or after
Colonists moving past the Appalachians
Westward migration/Manifest Destiny
Second Great Migration
Internal movement during Great Depression/Okies
Sunbelt
ExodustersHomestead Act
Relocation of Native Americans to reservations
Expansion of Federal Power During War
Connect the Espionage Act to an event/trend either before it or after
Alien and Sedition Acts--AdamsSuspension of Habeas Corpus--Lincoln
Patriot Act--Bush
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution--LBJ
War Powers Act--Nixon
Executive Order 9066--FDR
Civil Rights
• Connect the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to an event/trend either before it or after
Booker T. Washington/DuBois
Reconstruction—13th, 14th, 15th amendments
Abolition movement—Garrison, The Liberator, Frederick Douglass, 19th amendment (note the general connection between civil rights and women’s rights)
Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (2015)
Reform Movements
• Connect the Progressive Era to an event/trend either before it or after
Antebellum Reform
Populists
Great Society
The New Deal
The New Frontier
Radical Reconstruction
Gay Liberation Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Women’s Liberation Movement
Radicalism in Labor Movements • Connect the Haymarket Riot to an
event/trend either before it or after
Wagner Act
Reagan and Air Traffic Controllers
Red Scares Sacco and Vanzetti
IWWEmma Goldman
Palmer Raids
Federal Economic Policy
• Connect the Second National Bank/Bank War to an event/trend either before it or after
Hamilton and First National Bank
JP Morgan
Glass-Steagall Act/FDIC
Populism—bimetallism
Nixon and the gold standard
TARP
Supply-side economics
Keynesian Economics
Federal Reserve Act
Immigration
• Connect the Chinese Exclusion Act to an event/trend either before it or after
Gentlemen’s Agreement
National Origins Act
Old vs. New Immigrants
Know-Nothing Party
Hart-Cellar Act
Bracero Program Current immigration issues—illegal immigration, DREAM Act
Rise in Asian and Latin American immigrants post-1965
Wartime Turning Points/Watershed Battles
• Connect the Tet Offensive to an event/trend either before it or after
Saratoga
Gettysburg
Midway
D-Day
Battle of New Orleans (turning point in identity, nationalism)
Battle of Little Big Horn
Environmental Concerns
• Connect Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation efforts to an event/trend either before it or after
Sierra Club
CCC
TVA
Climate Change
Silent Spring
EPA
Earth Day
Three Mile Island
DDT/pesticides Love Canal
Decimation of the bison
Keystone Pipeline
Columbian Exchange
Kyoto Protocol
Isolationism vs. Interventionism in US Foreign Policy
• Connect the Nye Committee to an event/trend either before it or after
Washington’s Farwell Address
Conflict over the Treaty of Versailles/US does not join League of Nations
Roosevelt Corollary Monroe Doctrine
Alfred Mahan
Embargo Act 1807Quasi War
Lend-Lease
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
NATO
UN
Containment
Bush Doctrine
Good Neighbor Policy
Kellogg-Briand Pact
54’40 or FightMexican-American War
Big Stick Policy
Kissinger—Shuttle Diplomacy
Korea and Vietnam
Women’s Roles and Rights
• Connect the Seneca Falls Convention to an event/trend either before it or after
Republican Motherhood
Women’s Suffrage Movement—Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Alice Paul
19th Amendment
Abolition movement
15th Amendment
Women’s Liberation Movement
ERA
Gloria Steinam, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly
Roe v. Wade
Women’s role in temperance and other antebellum reforms
Rebellions
• Connect Bacon’s Rebellion to an event/trend either before it or after
Whiskey Rebellion
Boston Tea Party
Shay’s Rebellion
Stono Rebellion
Regulators Paxton Boys
Sons of Liberty
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Occupy Wall StreetBonus Army
Native Americans
• Connect the Dawes Severalty Act to an event/trend either before it or after
Indian Removal Act
Trail of Tears
Pequot War
King Phillips War
Reservation policy
Ft. Laramie Treaty
Sand Creek Massacre
Little Big Horn
Wounded Knee AIM
Worchester v. Georgia
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