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