History Day
History Day ideas
Colonial Era
• Salem Witch trials • The Stamp Act • “No taxation without representation”
Revolutionary War Era
• Thomas Paine • Thomas Jefferson • John Locke: right to rebellion • Adam Smith and Free Trade • Bill of Rights • Redcoats and patriots • John and Abigail Adams
US to Civil War • Nat Turner’s Rebellion • Louisiana Purchase
US Civil War
• John Brown • Frederick Douglas • Underground Railroad • States’ Rights v. Federalism • New York City Draft Riots-1863 •
WWI
• Migration of African Americans • New weaponry • Armenian genocide • The Treat of Versailles • Treaty System
1920’s • Flappers • Growth in consumerism • Advertising • Fascism • Welfare capitalism-reduce labor’s influence • Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
Great Depression: • Stock Market Crash • Migration • Homelessness • Prohibition-Organized Crime • Al Capone • Deficit Spending-Keynesian Economics • Federal Governments changing role regarding poor • New Deal programs
WWII
• Tuskegee Airmen • Relocation during WWII-Japanese on West Coast and Aleuts in Alaska • Holocaust • Nazi’s and the ‘Supreme Race’ • Korematsu v. United States • Refugees in America, Asia and Europe • Women Aviators • New technologies: Planes, tanks... • Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb • Closing the Door to Jewish Refugees • Reparations for Jews and Japanese • Nisei Soldiers • Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Operation Overlord/D-Day • Zoot Suit Riots • FDR • Winston Churchill • POW’s • Japanese ‘Comfort Women’ • Manhattan Project-Robert Oppenheimer • Creation of the United Nation • Marshall Plan
Cold War
• Cuban Missile Crisis • Creation of the CIA
Colonial Era
• Salem Witch trials • The Stamp Act • “No taxation without representation”
Revolutionary War Era
• Thomas Paine • Thomas Jefferson • John Locke: right to rebellion • Adam Smith and Free Trade • Bill of Rights • Redcoats and patriots • John and Abigail Adams
US to Civil War • Nat Turner’s Rebellion • Louisiana Purchase
US Civil War
• John Brown • Frederick Douglas • Underground Railroad • States’ Rights v. Federalism • New York City Draft Riots-1863 •
WWI
• Migration of African Americans • New weaponry • Armenian genocide • The Treat of Versailles • Treaty System
1920’s • Flappers • Growth in consumerism • Advertising • Fascism • Welfare capitalism-reduce labor’s influence • Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
Great Depression: • Stock Market Crash • Migration • Homelessness • Prohibition-Organized Crime • Al Capone • Deficit Spending-Keynesian Economics • Federal Governments changing role regarding poor • New Deal programs
WWII
• Tuskegee Airmen • Relocation during WWII-Japanese on West Coast and Aleuts in Alaska • Holocaust • Nazi’s and the ‘Supreme Race’ • Korematsu v. United States • Refugees in America, Asia and Europe • Women Aviators • New technologies: Planes, tanks... • Decision to drop the Atomic Bomb • Closing the Door to Jewish Refugees • Reparations for Jews and Japanese • Nisei Soldiers • Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Operation Overlord/D-Day • Zoot Suit Riots • FDR • Winston Churchill • POW’s • Japanese ‘Comfort Women’ • Manhattan Project-Robert Oppenheimer • Creation of the United Nation • Marshall Plan
Cold War
• Cuban Missile Crisis • Creation of the CIA