North Hunterdon High School Media Center

 
AP UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

For your research you need to select five of the following topics and write a research based essay for each.
 

1)  Hamilton vs Jefferson

2)  Jacksonian Democracy

3)  Civil War-Federalism vs Sectionalism

4)  Age of Industrialization

5)  Westward Expansion

6)  19th Century Congressional Leaders compare/contrast

7)  19th Century Presidents compare/contrast

8)  Women’s suffrage compare/contrast to Civil Rights Movement

9)  From Laissez-Faire to Trustbusting

10)  Evolution of the Federal Judiciary

11)  American Political Culture- Origins to the modern era compare/contrast
     
  If you would like to learn more about your topics, follow the links on this pathfinder. They will help you find information in your school library media center, and on the Internet about your topics.
   
 
Keywords and Phrases
Books
eBooks
Dewey Numbers
Electronic
Databases
Internet Sites
   
 
Keywords and Phrases for Searching
  Try using keywords or phrases. 
A keyword is a word used as a reference point for finding other words or information.  Use Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) to broaden or narrow your search. 
   
 
Print Resources-Books and Magazines
  There are several excellent books about each of your three topics. To locate more books, use keywords and phrases to search the OPAC, the online library catalog.  Power searches may be most useful for some topics.
 
   
 
Dewey Decimal Numbers to Browse
 

If you want to browse the shelves in the library to locate information about topics, look for these numbers:
    B            (Biography)
    301.45    Civil Rights
    320.973  Politics
    324         Women's Suffrage
    330.9      Industrial Revolution
    353         Federal Government
    920         Collective Biographies
    973         General number for American History
    973.7      Civil War
    973.91    Decades
    978         Westward Expansion
  

E-BOOKS

Online editions of print reference books.

 NEW!  ABC-CLIO e-books: A wide variety of e-books are available through the ABC CLIO databases on American Government, American History, and World History-Modern. To see a list of titles and access or search individual books, click the topics on the ABC CLIO History Reference Online page. To search all e-books at once, enter your search terms in the Search box on the main History Reference Online page, and click the Search button.

 NEW!  American Decades Primary Sources: Contains full or excerpted primary sources that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements, and events from the decades between 1900 and 1999. Includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports.

American Home Front in World War II: Examines the effect of the war on the people living in America, from issues of ethnicity to home-front organizations.

Americans at War: Explains how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered the fabric of everyday life.

 
 
Electronic Databases
 
An electronic database is an organized list of published information sources (usually journal articles), either giving directions (a citation) to where you can find the full information or containing the information itself (full-text databases).  Electronic databases provide evaluated resources for your projects.
 

ABC-Clio - search across all or any combination of your ABC-CLIO databases by entering a word or phrase in the text box, and checking the ALL box or just the databases you wish to search before clicking the search button

     World History
      www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com

     American History
     www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com

     American Government
     www.americangovernment.abc-clio.com

    World History:  Modern
    www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com/

Facts On File
 http://www.fofweb.com/subscription/    

History Reference Center
http://search.epnet.com/

Search Engines and Subject Directories

About.com
http://search.about.com/fullsearch.htm

Google Scholar Advanced
http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search
 

Internet Sites
   
 

These are evaluated websites that may assist you in your research:
   
 
 

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