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1. Remembering Our History Pre-AP
Topic Ideas (updated)
Columbus - Christopher Columbus’s treatment and killing of the indigenous people
of North America in 1492.
Slave Trade-- From the 1500-1600 the transatlantic slave trade and the improper
treatment of Africans.
Bacon Rebellion- The rebellion in Virginia,1676 by Bacon because he wanted to
declare war against the Indians
Salem Witch Trials- The persecution of “witches” in Salem in 1692.
Zenger Trial and Freedom of Press-- The British restriction of Freedom of
the Press in the 13 colonies 1735
Slavery and American Revolution--The American Revolution should of
helped change the history of black Americans but it continued especially in the South.
1776
Alien and Sedition Act These acts threatened the civil liberties of the American
people and the First Amendment in 1798.
Debtors Prison--In the 18th & early 19th centuries American people were put in
prison if they fell into debt.
Temperance Movement- The attempt of the government to control the sale
and drinking of alcohol by the American people.
Indian Removal Act- Trail of Tears-- The removal of American Indians
from their land and relocated in 1830.
Fugitive Slave Act- The 1793 Act passed to return fugitive slaves back to their
owners and threatened the safety of free African Americans.
Nativism and Know Nothings--1854 The restriction of immigrants coming to
America and in America.
Chinese Exclusion Act-The banning of Chinese laborers into the US. 1882
Dawes Act-- The Act to again take the land and disrupt the culture of the Native
Americans. 1887
Sacco-Vanzetti Case -The trial and death penalty for Italian immigrants and
anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti 1921
Japanese American Internment Camps The relocation of West Coast
Japanese Americans into internment camps from 1938-1945.

2. Atomic Bomb--The use of such a catastrophic weapon against the Japanese
people. 1945
McCarthyism-- The witch hunt to find communists in the US during the Cold War.
1950
Little Rock Integration Crisis-- the involvement of the federal government
to oversee the school integration of Little Rock and the resistance to the end of
segregation in schools. 1957
The Vietnam Conflict --The US involvement in the Vietnam War 1965
Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre-- the massacre of 500 Vietnamese civilians
in My Lai in 1968 by the US military.
Kent State-- The killing of students of Kent State by the National Guard because
they were involved in an antiwar protest. 1970
Love Canal the 1970s environmental issue of the clean up and fiscal responsibility
of the disposal of hazardous waste.
Exxon Valdez Disaster-- the 1989 disastrous oil spill in Alaska that fined the
company Exxon for what happened.
USA Patriot Act The Act that allows the government to violate the rights of
Americans to investigate terrorists in light of 9/11/2001
Hurricane Katrina-- the flooding of New Orleans was fault of the US Army
Corps not Hurricane Katrina. 2005
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