NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2014
Rights and Responsibilities in History
Politics
Indian Removal Act
British East India Co. - Trade Rights
American Indian Movement
Fugitive Slave Law
Japanese Internment Camps
442nd Regimental Combat Team
Korematsu v. United States
Berlin Wall – no right to leave
Free Trade Laws
Prisoner of War rights – Geneva Convention
Bill of Rights – pick one
Black Hawk War
Fur Trade – rights in the frontier
No Taxation without Representation
Women in the Military
Progressive Party
Know Nothing Party
Holy Smokes: Gov. & the Tobacco Industry
Dredd Scott
Marshall Plan
Luigi Galleani
Watergate
Tuskegee Airmen
Berlin Airlift
Fidel Castro
FDR and the New Deal
Reconstruction Programs: Freemen,
Carpetbaggers & Scalawags
Sports
Curt Flood – free agency
Negro League Baseball
Hank Aaron
Snowboarding - right to the slopes
Instant Replay
Title IX – Women’s sports
Mascot controversy
Hunting/Fishing
Media Rights to Events
NCAA Amateur Athlete Regulations
Muhammad Ali – draft resistance
Olympic Boycotts
Free Enterprise: The Baseball Bat Story
Society
National Organization for Women
Draft Riots
Rights of the Accused – Miranda v. Arizona
Married Women’s Property Acts (Coverture)
Prohibition – local connection
NAACP
Black Panthers
Malcolm X
Jim Crow
Jane Addams – settlement houses
Voting Age – moved to 18 in 1971
Charles Loring Brace – foster care
Marcus Garvey – civil rights
Better Business Bureau – consumer rights
Free Public Libraries – Carnegie
LGBT Rights
Handicap Accessibility – disability rights
Anti-Smoking Legislation
Women’s Suffrage – local connection
League of Women Voters
Preserving a Cultural Identity
Code of Hammurabi
Martin Luther and the 95 Theses
MADD
Social Security Act
Prisoner’s Rights
Gandhi
Nelson Mandela
Patient Rights
Kids Divorcing Parents- Minor Emancipation
Trans World Airlines v. Hardison (1977)
Dorthea Dix: Mentally Ill Reforms
Samurai
Dill Pickle Club
Music, Dance, Art, Literature,
Architecture
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Copyright Laws - plagiarism
Artistic Expression
Historical Landmarks – saving buildings
Antiquities Act – led to Nat’l Park Service
Freedom of the Press – John Zenger
Labor
Labor Unions – Labor Day
Railroad Workers’ Strike of 1877
Child Labor Laws
ACLU – Am. Civil Liberties Union
Oshkosh Woodworkers Strike
Lewis Hine
Lowell Mills
Newsies (1899)
The Town of Pullman
Alice Peurala
Hoboes, Tramps, Tramps: Migrant Workers
Milk Strikes
8-Hour Work Day
Kohler Strikes
Homestead Strike – Steel
Lech Walesa
Transcontinental Railroad
Science/Medicine/Environment
Water rights
Spear Fishing Protest
Nat’l Environmental Protection Act
John Muir
Colorado River – water rights
Farmers vs. Ranchers
Conservation Movement
Civil War hospitals – Cordelia Harvey
Sierra Club
H. H. Bennett – WI Dells
Horicon Marsh Preservation
Great Lakes – access and preservation
Hypocratic Oath - doctors
Dept. of Natural Resources
Food and Drug Administration
Eugenics
Endangered Species
Lumber Rights
Public Health Campaigns
Hydraulic Mining (Hydraulicking)
Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal
To Inoculate or Not to Inoculate
Erin Brochovich
TVA and the Snail Darter
Pop Culture
Private Ownership of Public Image-Publicity rights
Does Pop Culture - Social Responsibility?
Hollywood Red Scare/Blacklisting
Ford Pinto
Panic Broadcast of 1938
Zoot Suits Riots
Free Press
Ida Tarbell: Muckraker
Yellow Journalism
The Libel Case of Annie Oakley
Education
Little Rock Nine
Horace Mann – responsibility to provide ed.
Hortonville Teachers’ Strike
Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925)
Residential Segregation
The “Wisconsin Idea” – UW system
Wisconsin School for the Deaf
Wisconsin Center for the Blind
John Dewey
Booker T. Washington–Af. American Ed.
Safe Playgrounds
Holmen – 1st High School
Richard H. Pratt – Native Am. education
Francis Parker – progressive education
Willis Wagons
Head Start
Proposition 13