United States History Topic Ideas for NHD Projects

United States History Topic Ideas for NHD Projects

United States History Topic Ideas for NHD Projects Broad or If you’re interested in… ConsiderConsider………… Common Topic Colonization Exploration and Settlement North Dakota : • 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, Massachusetts – 1704 • Louisiana Code Noir – 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 Kansas - 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 • Missouri 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) .

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