2012 Ballston APUSH CSI PROJECT OPTIONS

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Nothing Like it in the World

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

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

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Freedom of the Seas? 
The War of 1812 vs. World War I (1917)

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March toward Freedom

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

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Armed Uprisings
Indian Raids vs. Slave Rebellions 

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Turning Points!

Saratoga (1774) vs. Antietam (1863)

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Separation Anxiety?

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

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Conscription Complications

The Civil War vs. The Vietnam War

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Mobilization against Discrimination   

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

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The Federal Government and Fiscal Fiascos

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

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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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Massacre of the Innocents

Mystic (1636) vs. Fort Pillow (1863)

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Industrial Utopias?

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

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Remember the Ladies? 

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

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Oh What a Ditch!

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

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Plains, Trains, and Automobiles   

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

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Challenges to Neutrality - 1

George Washington vs FDR 

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Challenges to Neutrality – 2

John Adams vs. Woodrow Wilson

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Loyal Virginians ?

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

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Biological warfareSmall Pox (Revolutionary War) vs. Influenza (World War I) 

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The Art of Propaganda  

 Paul Revere and the Revolutionary War (1774) vs. Frederic Remington and the Spansih American War (1898) 

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Free Speech in Wartime

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

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

 Salem (1692)  vs. Hollywood ( 1947) 

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Toughest Job you will ever love…
Freedman's Bureau (1860s) vs. Peace Corps (1960s) 

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Seeing Red

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

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The Adjudicators

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

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The Swing Around The Circle  

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

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Look Who is Coming to… the White House

Frederick Douglass vs. Booker T. Washington

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In the White Man's Image

Carlisle Indian School vs. Tuskegee Institute

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Protesters with a Pen I

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

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Protesters with a Pen II 

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

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Articulate Advocates?  

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

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Gods or Generals?  

George S. Patton vs. U.S. Grant  

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Redistribution Solutions

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

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Counter “couture”   

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

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Notable Naval Engagements   

The Chesapeake–Leopard Affair‎ (1807) vs. The Caroline Affair (1837)

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Standing up to Jim Crow  

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

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A Picture is worth 1000 words   - 1 

Jacob Riis vs. Dorothea Lange

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A Picture is worth 1000 words   - 2

Mathew Brady  vs. Lewis Hine

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Unsafe In Any Era?   

Upton Sinclair   vs.  Ralph Nader 

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Fighting Words?  

The DeLome Letter vs. The Zimmerman Telegram

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