Breaking Barriers in History Take inspiration for your 2020 History Day project from the Chesapeake Bay! Many of these topics can be researched at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
Colonial and Revolutionary Era Gilded Age to World War II • William Claiborne, the Calverts, and the • The Maryland Workmen’s Compensation Act dispute over Kent Island (1902), Franklin v. The United Railways and • Maryland Toleration Act (1649) Electric Company of Baltimore (1904), and the evolution of workers’ compensation laws • Peggy Stewart and the Annapolis Tea Party • Gustav Brunn and the history of Old Bay • The tobacco industry in the Chesapeake • Myers v. Anderson (1915) • Battle of the Severn • William Preston Lane, Jr. and the Chesapeake Early National and Antebellum Era Bay Bridge • Compromise of 1790 • Rachel Carson and the environmental • Chesapeake-Leopard affair and the Embargo movement of 1807 • Crab pickers, packinghouse workers and the • Emancipation of Maryland and Virginia strikes of the 1930s slaves by the British during the War of 1812 • Ruth Starr Rose, advocating for racial respect • William Pinkney (politician, lawyer and through art diplomat) Civil Rights Movement/ • Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, Daniel Coker, Vietnam War to the Present and the formation of the African Methodist • Gloria Richardson, the Cambridge Movement, Episcopal (AME) Church (1816) and riots of 1963 and 1967 • Mason-Dixon Line • Morgan v. Virginia (1946) • Charles Ball and Fifty Years in Chains; or, • The Clean Water Act (1972) The Life of an American Slave (1836) • Helen Delich Bentley and the Port of Baltimore • Frederick Douglass and the abolitionist movement • Barbara Mikulski and Historic Preservation in Fells Point and Federal Hill • Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad • Chesapeake Bay Commission (1980) • Waterwomen and women’s roles Civil War and Reconstruction in harvesting the Bay’s seafood • Joint Resolution 80 (1861), an attempt to prevent the Civil War • The Oyster Wars, Maryland Oyster Navy, For History Day support, contact Jill Ferris, and enforcement against illegal dredging CBMM Director of Education • The Stewart sisters andThe Sue (1885) at (410) 745-4986 or [email protected] • Josephine Carr and the steamboat Chester