US History Writing Prompts Essay Topics Discussion Questions

These 56 writing prompts or essay topics for US History cover 17 units, topics, or time periods spanning the Revolutionary War to the Cold War. They are a mix of academic, what if, and opinion questions. Some topics have one large item for students to respond to, in others there are 2-6 smaller topics to write about. They are set up in a way so you can have the students choose to write on some or all the items. 

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The topics cover:
--The Revolutionary War 
--Early Republic and Constitution
--War of 1812 and Era of Good Feelings
--Jacksonian Democracy
--The Civil War and Reconstruction
--The Great West and Immigration
--Imperialism
--Progressive Era
--World War 1
--The Roaring 20s and the Great Depression
--World War 2
--The Cold War

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