1. Create your own paper
2. Compare and Contrast any aspect of the Civil War or Reconstruction with today’s political issues.
3. What are the issues Native Americans face today?
4. Compare and Contrast the gold mining in the 1800s and oil mining now on Native lands.
5. What is the Keystone XL pipeline and why is it controversial?
6. What were the successes and failures of the Freedmen’s Bureau?
7. What is the history of the Reparations arguement? Was it ever a possibility? 8. How and why did the KKK begin and what does it, and similar groups, look like today?
9. Compare and Contrast titans of industry, labor unions, strikes past and present
10. What are the labor issues today?
11. How did we get an 8-hour workday?
12. Analyze one of the major strikes of the late 1800s.
13. Compare Rockefeller, Carnegie, and JP Morgan.
14. Who are Robber Barons, and who may be considered one today?
15. Should the US be more or less involved in the world and why?
16. Examine Jose Marti and his relationship to Tampa.
17. Examine the Cuban community in Tampa during the late 1800s
18. What is the current story behing Bear Ears National Monument?
19. Why don’t we have an Equal Rights Amendment?
