Examine the original 10 amendments that comprise the Bill of Rights and subsequent 17 amendments and their correlation with contemporary events. Link the additions with news of the time and create a thesis about the effects of the news and the passage of the new amendments. Make the argument for or against the notion that events lead directly to amendment of the Constitution.
Chart the changing demographics of the United States. Tracts to examine include laws that made immigration more or less popular in a given era, and which groups of people emigrated to America and why, as well as the reasons certain groups settled into specific regions. Use census data to show fluctuations. Include the changes that took place after the Civil War. Explore how the Emancipation Proclamation and fallout from the Civil War affected both the population of blacks and other groups in different regions of the country.
Identify the companies that were already established as the Colonies became the United States and how those companies were affected by the government if at all. Detail the links between corporations and the growing government. Explain how government affected business and how business affected government. Include taxes and how they were imposed upon and used by companies. A good question might be whether business yielded to government or the opposite and how the relationship has changed over the course of U.S. history.
The racial makeup of the United States has been ever changing. How has the infusion of immigrant groups changed the "face" of America? Examine how the increase in the population of certain ethnic groups affected the balance of states, cities and the smaller communities inside. Freed slaves had an impact in the South as well as the West. Assess the difference in race relations in the Northern states versus the Southern states before and after the Civil War.