Oklahoma History Day Topics List

Social Studies Content Standards History Day Example Topics 1. Describe the state’s geography and the • Indian Removal, Homesteading, and the historic foundations laid by American creation of the Twin Territories Indian, European, and American cultures. • Progressivism and the Creation of Oklahoma 2. Evaluate the major political and • The Katz Drug Store Sit-ins and the End economic events that transformed the of Segregation in Oklahoma land and its people from early contact • World War I, Wheat Prices, and the Dust through Indian Removal and its Bowl aftermath. • Tenant Farming, Share Cropping, and the Great Depression 3. Evaluate the major political and • The New Deal and Oklahoma’s State economic events that transformed the Parks land and its people from the outbreak of • Depression, Dust Bowl, and the Road the Civil War through allotment and land West openings. • Tulsa Race Massacre: How Black Wall Street Was Destroyed in Two Days 4. Analyze the formation of constitutional • Green Corn Rebellion: Opposing government in Oklahoma. Conscription in World War I Oklahoma • Battle of Honey Springs: Union Attempts 5. Examine Oklahoma’s political, social, to Take Control of Indian Territory cultural, and economic transformation • Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher: Integrating the during the early decades following University of Oklahoma’s Law School statehood. • Sequoyah: The State that Could Have Been 6. Investigate how post-war social, political, and economic events continued to transform the state of Oklahoma from the 1950s through the present.