US History paper topic? Help Please?

Question

I need help on a topic for us history. It has to be 8-10 pages with a thesis that is argued in the paper. I’m having trouble brainstorming themes. The date has to be from 1862 from present.

Answer 1

The above answers are all good. My suggestion would be a paper looking at the Black Hills Gold Rush which in all likelihood set into motion the final settling of the wild west and all its many tragedies associated with it. The discovery opened the way for the railroads, ranchers and settlers, but it came with a human price.

Answer 2

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omg!!! do the JFK assassination!!! Argue against the Warren Commsion!!! You would have so much fun finding all the primary source documents (which are bountiful) and there is a lot to write...easily takes up 8-10 pages if not more!!

Answer 3

the most interesting topic to me would be the issue of industrialism from the end of Reconstruction through the end of the 19th Century. Talk about Carnegie, Rockefeller, and how the exploitation of workers shaped the future of labor unions, etc.

Answer 4

How about this theses statement: The Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, purports to have freed the slaves but has slavery in America actually been destroyed?

Answer 5

You could write about the following treaties between the US govt and Native Americans:

Cheyenne/Arapahoe treaty of 1865
Cheyenne/Arapahoe/Apahe Treaty 1865
Comanche/Kiowa/Apahe Treay 1867
Ft. Laramie Treaty 1868

Answer 6

1.) Railroad development- Helped connect a country in terms of business and trvael
2.) Impact of World War one and two-Huge global impact and considerable themes within the US 9employment, taxation, politics
3.) Civil rights (60's)- The personalities(Malcom X, Black panther party, MArtin Luther King), the polarization of our country, politics
4.) Great depression- impacts on ecomony, personalities in american, changes finacnial policies iwhtin america

Come on. Nearly 140 years and you can't think of any!?