Remember that your writing should be a thoughtful response to the opinionated question. No fluffy bunnies or fence posts. Pick a side and describe your thoughts.

Topic One: Arron Burr is a…

• Traitor
• Hero
• Patriot
• Visionary

Topic Two: Explain how TX, WV, or UT

• becomes a US state
• and if you think it was a fair process.

Topic Three: Explain the Whiskey Ring Scandal

• Who was involved?
• How did the scandal work?
• Could a similar scandal happen today?

Topic Four: National Currency

• Explain how the US created a national currency.
• Should banks be regulated by the national government or allowed to be wholly independent?

Topic Five: School Mascots

• Should schools have “Indians” as their mascot?
• Why have some schools changed and others have not?

Topics Seven and Eight: Imperialism

• US involvement in Boxer Rebellion
• US occupation of Philippines
• US invve.tn in Mexico 1890-1920

Topics Nine and Ten: Read about two of the following women and how their place in history reshaped the opportunities for women and minorities.

• Hellen Keller
• Laura Cornelius Kellogg
• Alice Roosevelt
• Mary Tape
• Laura Clay
• Mary Mcleod Bethune

Topic Eleven: Responses to the Pres. Truman Question:

• How would you have dealt with Japan if there was no atomic bomb?
• How would you have reacted if the USSR had attack US, GB, FR troops in Germany?

Topic Twelve: Mutually Assured Destruction

• During the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Administrations US policy was to completely destroy the USSR with nuclear weapons if they attacked the US first, Why does this policy not make sense?

Topic Thirteen: Conspiracies JFK and Nixon (Pick one of the following)

• What is your opinion of the JFK assassination? Do you believe it was a big conspiracy or something more simple?
• What do you think was Nixon’s role in the Agnew Resignation and the Watergate Break-in? Was he a mastermind or simply a victim of political paranoia?

Topic Fourteen: Post-Colonialism

• During the collapse of the Soviet Union, US financial leaders proposed a heavy investment of US and World Bank money to stabilize the new Russian banking system. Both said no and it lead to a decade of hyper inflation in Russia. What do you think the US-Russia relations would be like today if the US and EU leaders had helped Russia in 1993?
• Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, POTUS has deployed US military more times than during the Cold War. Explain what you believe is the role of the US in global politics during the 21st Century?