Description
These are 215+ focus questions, thinking prompts, essential questions, objectives, guiding questions, review questions, discussion questions, or essay topics you can use for US History (American History, United States History) from Colonization through Reconstruction. They would also work as part of your objectives or lesson plans.
Some are specific to a person/event/law/trend/belief/etc, others are more generalized and open-ended. Some have students make connections between time periods. The last page has questions that would be good at the end of the year for students to discuss overarching continuity and change, cause and effect, thematic connections, and more!
The questions are divided according to unit for your convenience:
--Exploration (as a review if needed)
--Colonization
--Revolutionary War
--Articles of Confederation and Constitution
--Washington/Adams/Jefferson
--War of 1812
--Era of Good Feelings
--Market Revolution/Transportation Revolution
--Jacksonian Democracy
--Antebellum Era
--Manifest Destiny/Westward Expansion
--Road to the Civil War
--Civil War
--Reconstruction
--Overarching US History Themes/Connections
If you'd like the full set, you can find it here: US History Focus Questions from Exploration through the Cold War