1. How have African-Americans worked to end segregation, discrimination, and isolation to attain equality and civil rights?
2. In what ways has technology ended the physical and intellectual isolation of Americans?
3. How have wars and political ideologies resulted in the transition from an isolationist foreign policy in America to one in which the nation is now a global superpower?
4. While women once had few life options beyond isolation in the domestic sphere, what historical developments presented new opportunities for women in society?
5. In contrast to the ending of isolation, in what ways did Native Americans experience the transition from freedom to isolation? How have they struggled to overcome this isolation?