Support Ideas with Evidence

What were black codes, and how did they limit the rights of African Americans in the South?

If you were writing a history of women in the United States, what years would you include in a chapter title "Women in the Progressive Era"? Explain your choices.

Analyze and evaluate the ways that both external and internal migration changed over time from one thousand eight hundred and thirty to one thousand nine hundred.

"Though we have had war, reconstruction, and abolition as a nation, we still linger in the shadow and blight of an extinct institution. Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment ... In his downward course he meets no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress ... .

"If liberty, with us, is yet but a name, our citizenship is but a sham, and our suffrage thus far only a cruel mockery, we may yet congratulate ourselves upon the fact that the laws and institutions of the country are sound, just, and liberal. There is hope ... But until this nation shall make its practice accord with its Constitution and its righteous laws, it will not do to reproach the colored people of this country."

-Frederick Douglass, Speech, September $24, 1883$

Which of the following developed during Reconstruction to provide direct support and support self-determination for those freed from slavery?

(A) Credit Mobilier

(B) Tenant farming

(C ) Sharecropping

(D) Black churches

Generate Explanations

How did the concept of collective security lead to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

What events caused President Truman to propose what became known as the Truman Doctrine?

How did the United States and its allies respond to Soviet aggression in Europe?

"I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But sir, the right to control their own government, according to constitutional forms, is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war ....

"Mr. President, our Government, above all others, is founded on the right of the people freely to discuss all matters pertaining to their Government, in war not less than in peace .... How can the popular will express itself between elections except by meetings, by speeches, by publications, by petitions, and by addresses to the representatives of the people?

"Any man who seeks to set a limit upon these rights, whether in war or peace, aims a blow at the most vital part of our Government."

-Robert M. Lafollette, Congressional Record, October $6, 1917$

What does the author imply by the phrase, "not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war"?

(A) Citizens do not lose their freedom of speech during war

(B) Citizens should not have to pay taxes during war

(C ) The Constitution protects the rights of people to disrupt the draft

(D) The Constitution allows people to fight for the opponent in a war

"1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States . . are citizens ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens ... nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process; nor deny ... equal protection of the laws.

"2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States ... count­ ing the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election ... thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants ... being twenty-one years of age, and citizens ... or in any way abridged, except for ... crime, ... the basis of representation therein shall be reduced ... .

"3. No person shall ... hold any office ... who, having previously taken an oath . . . shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same ... But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

-14th Amendment, Constitution of the United States, July $9, 1868$

In proclaiming that all persons born in the United States were citizens, the fourteenth Amendment directly repudiated which of the following?

(A) Compromise of $1850$

(B) Dred Scott Decision

(C ) Johnson's Reconstruction Plan

(D) Wade-Davis Bill

Distinguish

How did Lincoln show generosity to white southerners at the expense of African Americans during Reconstruction?

Distinguish between the political systems of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Evaluate Arguments

Discuss the different viewpoints on franchise businesses.

Explain and analyze the impact of changes in transportation and marketing on both urban and rural consumers in the United States between one thousand eight hundred and sixty five to one thousand nine hundred.

Why did federal spending increase during Eisenhower's presidency?