LEQ Prompts

Evaluate the extent to which ideas of self-government influenced American colonial reaction to British imperial authority in the period from 1754 to 1776.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which the Civil War fostered change in the United States economy in the period from 1861 to 1900.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which debates over slavery in the period from 1830 to 1860 led the United States into the Civil War.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which ideas about democracy contributed to the African American Civil Rights movement in the period from 1940 to 1970.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which scientific or technological innovation changed the United States economy in the period from 1950 to 2000.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which commercial exchange systems such as mercantilism fostered change in the British North American economy in the period from 1660 to 1775.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed women the right to vote, marked a turning point in United States women’s history.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which the Progressive movement fostered political change in the United States from 1890 to 1920.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the relative importance of different causes for the expanding role of the United States in the world in the period from 1865 to 1910.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

Evaluate the extent to which the development of different economic systems in the North and South was a major cause of the Civil War.

• Continuity and Change Over Time

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect