United States History Topic Ideas for NHD Projects

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Colonization Exploration and Settlement : • Lewis and Clark • Sakakawea • Early Explorers • Settlement of North Dakota • Railroads in North Dakota • Ranching in North Dakota • Early Reservation Era

Relationships with Indians • The Sarcoxie Wars – 1837 (MO)

Colonial Era • Raid on Deerfield, – 1704 • – 1724

American Military and Diplomatic Revolution History • General von Steuben at Valley Forge – 1778 (PA) (1775-1783) • George Washington – 1775 (VA) • African-Americans in the Revolution – 1775

U.S. Political Theories and Foundations in English Common Law Constitution Principles • Magna Carta – 1215 • English Bill of Rights - 1689

PrePrePre-Pre ---ConsitutionConsitution • Mayflower Compact – 1620 • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut – 1639 • Connecticut Code of 1650 • Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom - 1786

Constitutional Convention Debates • Three-Fifths Compromise - 1787 • Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan -1787

Andrew Jackson Constitutional Debate • National Bank - 1833 • Nullification Crisis – 1832 (SC) • Trail of Tears – 1830 • Fort Gibson’s Role in the Trail of Tears (OK)

Antebellum Debates over Slavery and • David Walker's Appeal for Universal Abolitionism Emancipation – 1829 (MA) • Bleeding - 1854 • Dred Scott v. Sanford – 1857 (MO) • Charles Redmond and the Massachusetts Anti- Slavery Society – 1857

Civil War Military/War History Tragedies and of War (1861-1865) • Andersonville Prison (GA) • Elmira Prison (NY) • Gettysburg – 1863 (PA) • Civil War surgery

North Dakota • Civil War in North Dakota

African American Involvement • Camp Nelson (KY) • 54 th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment • 1st Kansas Colored Infantry

Westward Conflict • Mission San Gabriel Native American Revolt – Territories and 1785 (CA) Expansion • The West Florida Revolt – 1810 (LA) • Bloody Monday Riots – 1855 (KY) • George A. Custer • Pinkerton Detective Agency – 1875 • Lew Carroll and the 1889 Land Run (OK)

Development of Immigration, Labor, Civil • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire – 1911 (NY) Industry and rights, Industrial Accidents • Sharecroppers Protest of 1939 (MO) Worker’s Rights • Point Honda Naval Disaster – 1923 (CA) Dawn of the • 1904 World’s Fair and 1904 Summer Olympics 20 th Century (MO) Women’s Suffrage Suffrage History • Alice Paul (NJ) • Martha Griffiths and the Equal Rights AND Amendment • Isabella Beecher Hooker and the Constitutional Rights of Women (NY, CT) • Helena Hill Weed (CT) Women’s • Woman Suffrage (ND) History • Virginia Minor, Missouri League of Women Continued Women’s Rights Voters (MO)

Women’s Rights • Emma Willard, Higher Education for Girls (NY) • Clarina Howard Nichols (VT, KS) • Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls – 1848 (NY) • Randolph v. Owasso Public Schools - Title IX case (OK)

WWI Arguments for and Against • World War I in ND War • Kate Richards O’Hare and opposition to World War I (MO) • Propaganda in World War I

Great Response to Depression • Okie Migrations and the Dust Bowl (OK) Depression • Hoover Dam (NV, AZ) • New Deal

World War II Military History • Comanche Code Talkers • Aleutian Campaign (AK) • Coast Guard in World War II • Kawakitga v United States (CA) • Jake McNiece and the “Filthy Thirteen” (OK) • Lucius D. Clay (GA) • Women at the Douglas Aircraft Plant (OK)

Technology Technological Innovation, • The development of ENIAC at the University of History Industry Pennsylvania – 1946 • The Transistor • Garrison Dam (ND) and Natural Resources (ND) – 1950s • History of velcro, Ziploc bags, zippers, duct tape, disposable razor • National Weather Service • Sylvan Goldman and the development of the shopping cart (OK)

Social History Ethnic Conflict • Zoot Suit Riots – 1943 (CA) • Bracero Program – 1942 (CA) • Bob Fletcher, saved farms of interned Japanese- Americans (CA) • German POWs at Camp Algona (IA)

Nuclear History Manhattan Project • Enola Gay and Wendover Field (UT) • Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, General Leslie Groves, Enrico Fermi, Hans Bethe, Neils Bohr • Manhattan Project Innovations • Spies/security at Los Alamos (NM) • Oak Ridge Uranium Purification (TN) Sports History Integration of Baseball • Ben Chapman and the integration of the Philadelphia Phillies 1947 - PA • Larry Doby (OH) • Cap Anson (IA) • Pee Wee Reese (KY) • A. B. “Happy” Chandler (KY) Medicinal Polio Vaccine • Hansen’s Disease (leprosy) treatment in History Louisiana • Quarantine laws and the rights of patients • HeLa Cells

History of Rock ‘N’ Roll Revolution • Alan Freed (OH) Media and Movie History • The Hollywood Ten (CA) • U.S. v Paramount Pictures (CA) • Screen Actors’ Guild (CA) Integration and Supreme Court Opinions, Court Rulings Civil Rights Segregation/Desegregation, • United States v. Cruikshank – 1876 (LA) The Great Society • Brown v. Board of Education – 1954 (KS) • Penick v. Columbus Board of Education – 1977 (OH) • Clay v. US - 1971 • Lemon Grove Incident (CA) • Sheff vs. O’Neil (CT )

Missouri • Ernest Calloway (MO) • Urban League of St. Louis (MO)

Johnson and the Great Society • Head Start - 1965 • Great Society

Space Neil Armstrong’s Walk on • NASA’s decision to launch the shuttle Challenger Exploration the Moon (FL) • James A. Van Allen (IA)

Civil Rights King’s I Have a Dream • 1923 Rosewood Massacre (FL) Speech • Medgar Evers • Emmitt Till • Edna Griffin (IA) • Sammy Davis, Jr. and Segregation in Entertainment Industry • Anne Braden (KY) • Roscoe Dunjee and the Black Dispatch (OK) • Clara Luper and the Katz Drugstore Sit-In (OK) Environmental Silent Spring • International Convention for the Regulation of Movement Whaling (DC) • Hetchy Hetchy (CA) • John Muir and the Sierra Club (CA)