SYNTHESIS!

“Like in kind, but in a different time”

The rules: Once you see the initial topic, think of another
event that you could connect it to, the broad theme that
connects them, and be able to EXPLAIN the connection.
 Expansion of US Territory and Power

• Connect the Louisiana Purchase to an

event/trend either before it or after
Manifest Destiny/War with Mexico
US Imperialism/Spanish-American
war

Increasing intervention/world power after WWII

 Impact of Literature
Connect Uncle Tom’s Cabin to an event/trend
either before it or after
Common Sense The Other America
How the Other Half Lives
Silent Spring
The Jungle The Feminine Mystique
 Clash Between the States and Federal
Government

Connect the Kentucky and Virginia

Resolutions to an event/trend either before it
or after
Fugitive Slave Law/Anthony Burns
SC nullification crisis
Current marijuana laws—ex. Colorado
Current backlash to gay marriage laws/court rulings
 Internal Migration
• Connect the First Great Migration to an
event/trend either before it or after
Colonists moving past the Appalachians
Westward migration/Manifest Destiny
Relocation of Native Americans
Second Great Migration to reservations
Internal movement during Great Depression/Okies
Sunbelt
Homestead Act
Exodusters
 Expansion of Federal Power During War

Connect the Espionage Act to an

event/trend either before it or after
Alien and Sedition Acts--Adams
Suspension of Habeas Corpus--Lincoln
Patriot Act--Bush
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution--LBJ
War Powers Act--Nixon
Executive Order 9066--FDR
 Civil Rights
• Connect the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to an
event/trend either before it or after
Indiana’s Religious
Booker T. Washington/DuBois Freedom Restoration Act
(2015)
Reconstruction—13th, 14th, 15th amendments

Abolition movement—Garrison, The Liberator,

Frederick Douglass,
19th amendment (note the general connection
between civil rights and women’s rights)
 Reform Movements
• Connect the Progressive Era to an event/trend
either before it or after

Antebellum Reform The New Deal

Populists Radical Reconstruction

Great Society Civil Rights Movement

Gay Liberation Movement
The New Frontier
Women’s Liberation Movement
 Radicalism in Labor Movements
• Connect the Haymarket Riot to an
event/trend either before it or after

Wagner Act
Reagan and Air Traffic Controllers

Red Scares
Sacco and Vanzetti
Palmer Raids
Emma Goldman
IWW
 Federal Economic Policy
• Connect the Second National Bank/Bank War
to an event/trend either before it or after
Hamilton and First National Bank
JP Morgan Nixon and the gold standard
Glass-Steagall Act/FDIC
Supply-side economics
Populism—bimetallism
Keynesian Economics
TARP
Federal Reserve Act
 Immigration
• Connect the Chinese Exclusion Act to an
event/trend either before it or after

Gentlemen’s Agreement Bracero Program

National Origins Act Current immigration issues—
illegal immigration,
Old vs. New Immigrants DREAM Act
Know-Nothing Party
Rise in Asian and Latin
Hart-Cellar Act American immigrants post-
1965
Wartime Turning Points/Watershed Battles

• Connect the Tet Offensive to an event/trend

either before it or after

Saratoga D-Day

Gettysburg Battle of New Orleans

(turning point in identity, nationalism)
Midway
Battle of Little Big Horn
 Environmental Concerns
• Connect Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation
efforts to an event/trend either before it or
after
Sierra Club Climate Change
Earth Day
CCC Silent Spring Kyoto Protocol
Decimation of the bison
EPA Three Mile Island
TVA
Keystone Pipeline DDT/pesticides
Love Canal
Columbian Exchange
 Isolationism vs. Interventionism in US
Foreign Policy
• Connect the Nye Committee to an
event/trend either before it or after
Washington’s Farwell Address Marshall Plan Embargo Act 1807
UN Quasi War
Conflict over the Treaty of Versailles/US does not join League of Nations

Monroe Doctrine Lend-Lease Kissinger—Shuttle Diplomacy

Roosevelt Corollary Containment Good Neighbor Policy
NATO Big Stick Policy Kellogg-Briand Pact

Alfred Mahan Bush Doctrine 54’40 or Fight

Truman Doctrine Mexican-American War Korea and Vietnam
 Women’s Roles and Rights
• Connect the Seneca Falls Convention to an
event/trend either before it or after
Republican Motherhood ERA
Women’s Suffrage Movement—Susan B. Anthony,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Alice Paul
Roe v. Wade

19th Amendment Women’s Liberation Movement

Abolition movement Gloria Steinam, Betty Friedan,
Phyllis Schlafly
15th Amendment Women’s role in temperance and other antebellum reforms
 Rebellions
• Connect Bacon’s Rebellion to an event/trend
either before it or after
Regulators
Whiskey Rebellion
Paxton Boys
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
Shay’s Rebellion
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Stono Rebellion Occupy Wall Street
Bonus Army
 Native Americans
• Connect the Dawes Severalty Act to an
event/trend either before it or after

Indian Removal Act

Reservation policy
Trail of Tears
Ft. Laramie Treaty Wounded Knee
Pequot War
AIM
Sand Creek Massacre

King Phillips War Little Big Horn

Worchester v. Georgia