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CSI American History Compare/Connect/Contrast Synthesize and Interpret
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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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 WarfareSmall Pox (Revolutionary War) vs. Influenza (World War I)
44. Gods or GeneralsGeorge 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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