American History Topics by Era - Piedmont, CA（美国历史主题的时代u2014u2014山麓,CA）.pdfVIP

AMERICAN HISTORY RESEARCH TOPICS Constitutional Issues 1. First Amendment: What have been the issues surrounding freedom of speech, press, and/or religion? 2. Second Amendment: Why is there controversy surrounding gun control? 3. Fourth Amendment: How has the Supreme Court, through its interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, balanced the right to privacy with the need for public safety? 4. Thirteenth Amendment: Although the Thirteenth Amendment freed the slaves, how were African American still denied their freedom? 5. Fourteenth Amendment: How did the Black Codes, Jim Crow laws, and Plessy v. Ferguson take away the rights guaranteed to African Americans by the Fourteenth Amendment? 6. Fifteenth Amendment: Although the Fifteenth Amendment was supposed to guarantee African Americans the right to vote, what obstacles were put in the way to keep them from voting for 100 years? 7. Nineteenth Amendment: What struggles did women have to go through to get the Nineteenth Amendment, women’s right to vote? 8. Eighteenth and Twenty-First Amendments: What were the reasons for the Eighteenth Amendment—Prohibition—and why was it repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment? 9. John Marshall is considered one of our nation’s most influential Supreme Court Chief Justices. What impact did three of his most important decisions have on the United States? The Origins of a Nation, 1300-1776 10. Some European settlers used the term “savage” to describe the indigenous peoples of North America. Choose three different American Indian peoples and show how this label is untrue and unjust. 11. How did the Quakers stand up for their convictions despite prevailing attitudes? 12. Despite the challenges, how did the Jamestown colony survive? 13. What do the Salem Witch Trials reflect abut the social, political, and religious tensions of the day? 14 .How did Roger Williams, Anne Hutchison, Peter Zenger, and Nathanial Ba