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CSI American History 

Compare/Connect/Contrast Synthesize and Interpret

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CSI: American History is a collection of prompts that encourage students to connect specific topics or events to other historical periods, geographical areas, contexts or circumstances while applying essential Historical Thinking Skills necessary for success on the redesigned AP U.S. History course.

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CSI American History  Prompts 

Compare/Connect/Contrast Synthesize and Interpret

1. Nothing Like it in the World 

Voyages of Exploration (1400’s) vs. Building the Transcontinental RR (1865) 

2. March toward Freedom

Rogers Williams (1636) vs. Joseph Smith (1845)

3. Separation Anxiety? 

Thomas Paine (Common Sense) vs. Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard Lecture) 

4. The Party is Over 

The Federalists and the Hartford Convention (1815) vs. The Whigs and the Kansas Nebraska Act (1854) 

5. Turning Points 

Saratoga (1774) vs. Antietam (1863)

6. Massacre of the Innocents  

Mystic (1636) vs. Fort Pillow (1863)

7. Patriotic Treason?

Robert E. Lee (1861)  vs. George H. Thomas (1861)

8. Evangelical Orators 

George Whitfield (1740’s) vs. Billy Sunday (1920’s)

9. Freedom of the Seas  

The War of 1812 vs. World War I (1917)

10. Look Who's Coming To, The White House

Frederick Douglass vs. Booker T. Washington

11. Conscription Complications 

The Civil War vs. The Vietnam War

12. Midnight Rising

Nat Turner (1831) vs. John Brown (1859)

13. Mobilization against Discrimination

Seneca Falls Convention (1848) vs. Niagara Movement (1905)

14. The Federal Government and Fiscal Fiascos 

President Van Buren’s (1830s) vs.  FDR (1930s)

15. You Go Girl! 

Women’s role in the Abolition movement (1840-1865) 

vs. Women’s role in the Civil Rights movement (1950 to 1965)

16. Industrial Utopias? 

Lowell Factory (1840s) vs. Pullman Company Town (1890s)

17. Remember the Ladies?

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1843) vs. The Feminine Mystique (1963)

18. Protesters with a Pen I

 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) vs. A Century of Dishonor (1888)

19. Oh What a Ditch!

Erie Canal (1820’s) vs. the Panama Canal (1900’s)

20. Plains, Trains, and Automobiles  

Transcontinental railroad (mid 1800’s) vs. Interstate Highway System (mid 1900’s)

21. Challenges to Neutrality – 1

George Washington vs FDR 

22. Challenges to Neutrality – 2

John Adams vs. Woodrow Wilson

23. The Art of Propaganda  - Paul Revere and the Revolutionary War (1774) vs. Frederic Remington and the Spanish American War (1898) 

24. Free Speech in Wartime 

 Clement Vallandigham (1865)  vs. Charles Shenck (1917)

25. Panic and Mass Hysteria - The Witch Hunt becomes a Moral Metaphor  

Salem (1692)  vs. Hollywood ( 1947) 

26. Toughest Job you will ever love…

Freedman's Bureau (1860s) vs. Peace Corps (1960s) 

27. In the White Man's Image

Carlisle Indian School vs. Tuskegee Institute

28. The Red Scare Redux

A.Mitchell Palmer (1920)  vs. J.Edgar Hoover (1950)

29. The Adjudicators

 Freedom’s Bureau (1865) vs. National War Labor Board (1918)

30. The Swing Around The Circle  

Andrew Johnson (1867) vs. Woodrow Wilson (1917)

31. Protesters with a Pen II 

The Lost Generation (1920’s) vs. The Beatniks (1950’s) 

32. Articulate Advocates? 

Thomas Paine (Common Sense) vs. Alexander Hamilton (The Federalists Papers)

33. Redistribution Solutions

Henry George (1879) vs. Huey Long (1935)  

34.  Counter “couture”  

Flappers (1920’s) vs. Hippies (1960s)  

35. Standing up to Jim Crow   

Homer Plessy (1890s) vs. Rosa Parks (1950s) 

36. A Picture is worth 1000 words

Jacob Riis vs. Dorothea Lange

37. A Picture is worth 1000 words  II 

Mathew Brady  vs. Lewis Hine

38. Unsafe In Any Era?   

Upton Sinclair   vs.  Ralph Nader 

39. Fighting Words?  

The DeLome Letter vs. The Zimmerman Telegram

40. Global Gun Show? 

Washington Naval Conference (1922)  vs. SALT I or II (1972) 

41. How the Other Half Lives

Indian reservations vs. ethnic ghettos 

42. Raking Muck 

Ida Tarbell  (Oil Industry) v. Michael Moore (Auto Industry) 

43. Biological Warfare

Small Pox (Revolutionary War) vs. Influenza (World War I) 

44. Gods or Generals

George McClellan (Civil War) vs. George S. Patton (Korean War)

45. The Bully Blueprint

James Madison (Constitutional Convention) vs. Thaddeus Stevens (Radical Reconstruction)

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