AP US History: Thesis Practice

For each essay prompt below, write a historically defensible thesis that contains a line of reasoning. 

Evaluate the extent to which the Industrial Revolution fostered economic change in the United States from 1865-1900.

Evaluate the extent to which muckrakers sought to bring about economic change in the United States from 1890 to 1920.

Evaluate the extent to which the Progressives, on the national level, sought federal legislation that they believed would effectively expand democracy.

Evaluate the extent to which the Progressives, on the national level, sought federal legislation that they believed would generate moral reform.

Evaluate the extent to which attitudes relating to trusts and trust-busting changed in the United States from 1890-1920.

Evaluate the extent to which immigration to America changed from 1880-1925.

Evaluate the extent to which African American produced art and literature changed from 1920-1940.

Evaluate the extent to which attitudes toward immigrants changed in the United States from 1914 to 1917.

Evaluate the relative importance of different causes for African American migration from the South to the North and West from 1916 to 1945.

Evaluate the extent to which the New Deal attempted to end the Great Depression.