Cold War Conflicts – analyze the causes and consequences of major Cold War conflicts, including the global reconfigurations and restructuring [...]

Revolution, Decolonization, and Democratization – evaluate the causes and consequences of revolutionary and independence movements in different world regions.

Case Studies of Genocide – analyze the development, enactment, and consequences of, as well as the international community's responses to, [...]

Using the American Revolution, the creation and adoption of the Constitution, and the Civil War as touchstones, develop and argument [...]

Analyze how the changing character of American political society from 1791 to 1877 significant impact on the responsibilities of governments [...]

Labor’s Response to Industrial Growth – evaluate the different responses of labor to industrial change, including the development of organized [...]

Describe the extent to which industrialization and urbanization between 1895 and 1930 created the need for progressive reform.

Analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural changes that occurred during the Progressive Era.

Describe the new role of African-Americans in local, state, and federal government in the years after the Civil War and [...]

Analyze the intent and the effect of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.

Explain the decision to remove Union troops from the South in 1877 and investigate its impact on Americans.

America at Century’s End – compare and contrast the United States in 1800 with the United States in 1898, focusing [...]

U.S. History Investigation Topic and Issue Analysis, Past and Present - use historical perspectives to analyze issues in the United [...]

Demonstrate knowledge of how, when, and where individuals would plan and conduct activities intended to advance views in matters of [...]

Engage in activities intended to contribute to solving a national or international problem studied.

Participate in projects to help or inform others.

Growth and Interactions of World Religions – analyze the significance of the growth of and interactions between world religions.

Intensifying Trade Networks and Contacts – compare and contrast the development, interdependence, specialization, and importance of interregional land-based and sea-based [...]

Growth of Islam and Dar al-Islam (a country, territory, land, or abode where Muslim sovereignty prevails) - explain the significance [...]

Unification of Eurasia under the Mongols – analyze the significance of Mongol rule in Afro-Eurasia and the impact of the [...]

Spheres of Interaction and Influence in the Americas – compare and contrast the diverse characteristics and interactions of peoples in [...]

Emerging Global System – differentiate between the global systems of trade, migration, and political power from those in the previous [...]

Diffusion of World Religions – evaluate the impact of the diffusion of world religions and belief systems on social, political, [...]

Cultural Encounters and the Columbian Exchange – explain the demographic, environmental, and political consequences of European oceanic travel and conquest.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade – analyze the causes and development of the Atlantic trade system with respect to the capture [...]

Afro-Eurasian Empires – compare and contrast the different ways governments expanded or centralized control across various parts of Afro-Eurasia, and [...]

Global Revolutions – explain the characteristics, extent, and impact of the global revolutions, including but not limited to changes in [...]

Worldwide Migrations and Population Changes – analyze the causes and consequences of shifts in world population and major patterns of [...]

Establishing a National Judiciary and its Power – use Marbury v. Madison to explain the development of the power of [...]

The Institution of Slavery – explain the ideology of the institution of slavery, its policies, and consequences.

Westward Expansion – analyze the annexation of the west through the Louisiana Purchase, the removal of Indigenous Peoples from their [...]

Consequences of Expansion – develop an argument based on evidence about the positive and negative consequences of territorial and economic [...]

Explain the origins of the American education system.

Describe the formation and development of the abolitionist movement by considering the roles of key abolitionist leaders and the response [...]

Analyze the antebellum women’s rights (and suffrage) movement by discussing the goals of its leaders and comparing primary source documents [...]

Analyze the goals and effects of the antebellum temperance movement.

Investigate the role of religion in shaping antebellum reform movements.

Compare the differences in the lives of free black people (including those who escaped from slavery) with the lives of [...]

Describe the impact of the Northwest Ordinance on the expansion of slavery.

Describe the competing views of John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay on the nature of the union among [...]

Draw conclusions about why the following increased sectional tensions: • the Missouri Compromise (1820). • the Wilmot Proviso (1846). • [...]

Describe the resistance of enslaved persons and effects of their actions before and during the Civil War.

Describe how major issues debated at the Constitutional Convention, such as disagreements over the distribution of political power, rights of [...]

Discuss the social, political, economic, and cultural reasons for secession.

Describe the role of African-Americans in the war, including black soldiers and regiments, and the increased resistance of enslaved people.

Construct generalizations about how the war affected combatants, civilians (including the role of women and Indigenous Peoples), the physical environment, [...]

Compare the different positions concerning the reconstruction of Southern society and the nation, including the positions of President Abraham Lincoln, [...]

Describe the early responses to the end of the Civil War by describing: • the policies of the Freedmen’s Bureau. [...]

Identify factors that contribute to conflict and cooperation between and among cultural groups.

Describe examples of cooperation and conflict in the era being studied.