Rights and Responsibilities in History

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Rights and Responsibilities in History

NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2014 Rights and Responsibilities in History

Politics Society Indian Removal Act National Organization for Women British East India Co. - Trade Rights Draft Riots American Indian Movement Rights of the Accused – Miranda v. Arizona Fugitive Slave Law Married Women’s Property Acts (Coverture) Japanese Internment Camps Prohibition – local connection 442nd Regimental Combat Team NAACP Korematsu v. United States Black Panthers Berlin Wall – no right to leave Malcolm X Free Trade Laws Jim Crow Prisoner of War rights – Geneva Convention Jane Addams – settlement houses Bill of Rights – pick one Voting Age – moved to 18 in 1971 Black Hawk War Charles Loring Brace – foster care Fur Trade – rights in the frontier Marcus Garvey – civil rights No Taxation without Representation Better Business Bureau – consumer rights Women in the Military Free Public Libraries – Carnegie Progressive Party LGBT Rights Know Nothing Party Handicap Accessibility – disability rights Holy Smokes: Gov. & the Tobacco Industry Anti-Smoking Legislation Dredd Scott Women’s Suffrage – local connection Marshall Plan League of Women Voters Luigi Galleani Preserving a Cultural Identity Watergate Code of Hammurabi Tuskegee Airmen Martin Luther and the 95 Theses Berlin Airlift MADD Fidel Castro Social Security Act FDR and the New Deal Prisoner’s Rights Reconstruction Programs: Freemen, Gandhi Carpetbaggers & Scalawags Nelson Mandela Patient Rights Kids Divorcing Parents- Minor Emancipation Sports Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977) Curt Flood – free agency Dorthea Dix: Mentally Ill Reforms Negro League Baseball Samurai Hank Aaron Dill Pickle Club Snowboarding - right to the slopes Instant Replay Title IX – Women’s sports Music, Dance, Art, Literature, Mascot controversy Architecture Hunting/Fishing The Jungle – Upton Sinclair Media Rights to Events Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe NCAA Amateur Athlete Regulations Copyright Laws - plagiarism Muhammad Ali – draft resistance Artistic Expression Olympic Boycotts Historical Landmarks – saving buildings Free Enterprise: The Baseball Bat Story Antiquities Act – led to Nat’l Park Service Freedom of the Press – John Zenger Labor Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal Labor Unions – Labor Day To Inoculate or Not to Inoculate Railroad Workers’ Strike of 1877 Erin Brochovich Child Labor Laws TVA and the Snail Darter ACLU – Am. Civil Liberties Union Oshkosh Woodworkers Strike Lewis Hine Lowell Mills Newsies (1899) The Town of Pullman Alice Peurala Pop Culture Hoboes, Tramps, Tramps: Migrant Workers Private Ownership of Public Image-Publicity rights Milk Strikes Does Pop Culture - Social Responsibility? 8-Hour Work Day Hollywood Red Scare/Blacklisting Kohler Strikes Ford Pinto Homestead Strike – Steel Panic Broadcast of 1938 Lech Walesa Zoot Suits Riots Transcontinental Railroad Free Press Ida Tarbell: Muckraker Yellow Journalism Science/Medicine/Environment The Libel Case of Annie Oakley Water rights Spear Fishing Protest Education Nat’l Environmental Protection Act Little Rock Nine John Muir Horace Mann – responsibility to provide ed. Colorado River – water rights Hortonville Teachers’ Strike Farmers vs. Ranchers Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) Conservation Movement Residential Segregation Civil War hospitals – Cordelia Harvey The “Wisconsin Idea” – UW system Sierra Club Wisconsin School for the Deaf H. H. Bennett – WI Dells Wisconsin Center for the Blind Horicon Marsh Preservation John Dewey Great Lakes – access and preservation Booker T. Washington–Af. American Ed. Hypocratic Oath - doctors Safe Playgrounds Dept. of Natural Resources Holmen – 1st High School Food and Drug Administration Richard H. Pratt – Native Am. education Eugenics Francis Parker – progressive education Endangered Species Willis Wagons Lumber Rights Head Start Public Health Campaigns Proposition 13 Hydraulic Mining (Hydraulicking)

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