Name:
Constellation:
2011 NHD Potential Topics: Mrs. R’s
Movements and Social
Change
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African American Civil Rights
Movement
Beatniks
Black Panthers
Campus Protests and the
Counterculture
Conscientious Objectors
Environmental Advocacy
Groups
Filipino Cannery Workers
and Farm Workers Union
Hunger Marches in Olympia
Industrial Workers of the
World (IWW, Wobblies)
Neoconservatism
Prohibition
Roslyn Coal Miners Strike
Seattle General Strike
Seneca Falls Convention
Spokane Free Speech Fight
Women’s Suffrage Movement
World Trade Organization
(WTO) Meeting in Seattle
Legislation and Politics
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Barefoot Schoolboy Act
Bogue Plan
Canwell Committee
Civil Rights Acts
Civil War Amendments
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) creation
Equal Pay Act
Equal Rights Amendment
Filibusters
Idealism vs. Pragmatism in
presidential diplomacy
Initiative and Referendum
Isolationism vs.
Interventionism
League of Nations
National Organization for
Women (NOW)
Political Campaigns
Second Amendment
Term limits
Title IX
Undeclared Wars /
Presidential Prerogative
United Nations (UN)
Yalta Conference
Judiciary
Genesis of Judicial Power
- Chisholm v. Georgia
- Vanhorne’s Lessee v. Dorrance
- Hylton v. U.S.
Marshall Era (1801–1835)
- Marbury v. Madison
- McCulloch v. Maryland
- Barron v. Baltimore
- Ogden v. Saunders
- Gibbons v. Ogden
Taney Era (1837–1864)
- Luther v. Borden
- Ableman v. Booth
- The Proprietors of the Charles
River Bridge v. Proprietors of
the Warren Bridge
- New York v. Miln
- The Passenger Cases
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- Dred Scott v. Sandford
Civil War and
Reconstruction/Slavery
- The Prize Cases
- Cummings v. Missouri
- Mississippi v. Johnson
- Hepburn v. Griswold
- U.S. v. Reese
- Civil Rights cases
- Virginia v. Rives
- Plessy v. Ferguson
Constitution and the Economy
(1873–1917)
- The Slaughter-house cases
- Munn v. Illinois
- Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific
Railway Co. v. Illinois
- Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul
Railway Co. v. Minnesota
- Smyth v. Ames
- Interstate Commerce cases
- Standard Oil Co. of New
Jersey v. U.S.
- Lochner v. New York
- Muller v. Oregon
- In Re Debs
War, Radicalism and Reaction
(1917–1933)
- Schenck v. U.S.
- Abrams v. U.S.
- Gitlow v. New York
BIG List
Judicial Power / Constitutional
Change (1933–1964)
- Nebbia v. New York
- Schechter Poultry Corp. v.
U.S.West Coast Hotel Co. v.
Parrish
- NLRB v. Jones and
Laughlin Steel Corp.
1st Amendment: Freedom of
Expression, Association and
Assembly
- Dennis v. U.S.
- NAACP v. Alabama
- Miller v. California
1st Amendment: Freedom of Press
- NY Times v. U.S.
- Near v. Minnesota
- NY Times v. Sullivan
1st Amendment: Freedom of and
from Religion
- Epperson v. Arkansas
- W. Virginia Board of Ed. v.
Barnette
- Everson v. Board of Ed. of the
Township of Ewing
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters
- Zorach v. Clauson
- Engel v. Vitale
- Reynolds v. U.S.
- Wisconsin v. Yoder
- Jaffree v. Board of School
Commissioners of Mobile
County
- In Re Gault
- Mississippi University for
Women v. Joe Hogan
- Wallace v. Jaffree
- McLaurin v. Oklahoma State
Regents
Discrimination
- Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka
- Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v.
U.S.
- Regents of the University of
California v. Bakke
- Sweatt v. Painter
- Koramatsu v. U.S.
Voting Rights
- Smith v. Allwright
- Baker v. Carr
Judiciary, cont.
Death Penalty
- Louisiana ex re. Grancis v.
Resweber
- Furman v. Georgia
- Gregg v. Georgia
- McCleskey v. Kemp
Rights of the Accused
- Gideon v. Wainwright
- Hernandez v. Texas
- Weeks v. US
- Escobedo v. Illinois
- Betts v. Brady
- Illinois v. Rodriguez
- Mapp v. Ohio
- Miranda v. Arizona
Privacy and Personal Relations
- Griswold v. Connecticut
- Roe v. Wade
- Doe v. Bolton
- City of Akron v. Center for
Reproductive Health, Inc.
- Planned Parenthood v. Casey
- Hardwick v. Bowers
Dissent and the Indochina War
- U.S. v. Nixon
- Tinker v. Des Moines
- Gillette v. US
- US v. O’Brien
- Welsh v. US
- Massachusetts v. Laird
2nd Amendment
- US v. Miller
- Presser v. Illinois
- Miller v. Texas
Miscellaneous
- Boldt Decision (Native
American fishing rights)
- Colorado River lawsuits
- Goldmark Libel Trial
- Nuremberg trials
- Rosenburg case (Red Scare)
- Scopes monkey trial
(teaching evolution in school)
Significant Individuals
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Anderson, Marion:
Unintentional Activist
Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic
Revolution
Bandaranaike, Sirimavo:
First Woman to Lead a
Nation
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Blackwell, Elizabeth: First
American Woman Doctor
Bolivar, Simon: Latin
American Independence
Bretz, J. Harlen: Flood
Theory
Carlos, John and Tommie
Smith: Olympic Project for
Human Rights
Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring
Castro, Fidel: Bay of Pigs
Catherine the Great:
Westernization
Chief Joseph: Resistance to
Reservations
Churchill, Winston: Gifted
Orator
de Las Casas, Bartholomew:
Moral Issues in the Conquest
of the Americas
Dickens, Charles: Writing to
Illuminate the Class System
Dix, Dorothea: Advocate for
the Mentally Ill
Einstein, Albert: Theory of
Relativity
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The
Second Crusade
Elvis: Rockabilly
Freud, Sigmund: Unconscious
Mind
Galilei, Galileo: Scientific
Revolution
Gandhi, Mohandas: Change
through Peaceful Activism
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins:
Women and Economics
Goodall, Jane: UN Messenger
of Peace
Graham, Martha: Pioneer of
Modern Dance
Guthman, Ed: Investigation
of the Canwell Committee
Hamilton, Alexander:
Federalist Papers
Hine, Lewis: Images to
Change Labor Laws
Ho Chi Minh: National
Liberation Front
Hutton, Mae: Women’s Rights
Jobs, Steven: Inventor and
Innovator
Keynes, John Maynard: The
World Economics Conference
King, Billie Jean: Women in
Sports
Kroc, Roy: Fast Food Nation
Lange, Dorothea: Images of
Japanese Internment Camps
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Luther, Martin: Religious
Reformer
Malcolm X
Mandela, Nelson: Congress of
the People
Mann, Horace: Educational
Reformer
Marti, Jose: Cuba’s War for
Independence
Mead, Margaret: Cultural
Anthropologists
Miranda, Ernesto: Protection
of the Fifth Amendment
Muir, John Muir: Sierra Club
Nixon, Richard: Villain or
Hero?
O’Connell, Daniel: The
Liberator
Olivereau, Louise: WWI AntiDraft Activist
Oppenheimer, Robert:
Creator of the Atomic Bomb
Pankhurst, Emmeline:
Women’s Social and Political
Union
Perry, Matthew: Opening of
Japan
Picasso: Defining Modern Art
Polo, Marco: Silk Road
Randolph, Phillip:
Brotherhood of Pullman
Porters
Reed, Walter: Conquest of
Yellow Fever and the Panama
Canal
Robinson, Jackie: Breaking
the Color Barrier in Baseball
Roosevelt, Eleanor: The
Human Rights Condition
Roosevelt, Theodore: “Big
Stick” diplomacy
Rosie the Riveter:
Symbolizing Women’s
Workforce in WWII
Sadat, Anwar and Menachem
Begin: Sharing the Nobel
Peace Prize
Sakharov, Andrei: Opposition
to the Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan
Salah al-Din Yusuf ibn
Ayyub: Recapturing Palestine
Smith, Adam: Free Trade
Stalin, Joseph: The Lion at
Yalta
Steinem, Gloria: National
Women’s Political Caucus
Thoreau, Henry David:
Resistance to Mexican War
Significant Individuals,
cont.
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Truman, Harry: Berlin Airlift
Truman, Harry: Decision to
Drop Atomic Bomb
Truman, Harry: UN and the
Korean War
Van Gogh, Vincent:
Developing Expressionism
Villa, Pancho: Western
Cartridge Company
Wallace, William: Battle of
Stirling Bridge
Williams, Roger: Separation
of Church and State
Wollstonecraft, Mary: A
Vindication of the Rights of
Women
Woolf, Virginia: Bloomsbury
Group
Zenger, John Peter: The
Freedom of the Press
General Topics
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Abortion
African American Miners
come to Roslyn, WA
African Americans come to
the Pacific NW
Alaska/Klondike Gold Rush
American Civil War
Animal Testing
Anti-Chinese Riots
Apartheid
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Assisted Reproductive
Technologies (ART)
Birth Control / The Pill
Bloody Sunday
Camp David: Diplomatic
Retreat
Centralia Massacre
Child Labor
Citizen militia vs. permanent
professional army
Cloning
Cold War: Cuban Missile
Crisis
My Other Topic Ideas:
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Cold War: Détente in the
1970s
Cold War: Loyalty
Cold War: NSC 68 and the
“Domino Theory”
Conservation
Dams Change Agriculture
and Industry in the Pacific
NW
Death with Dignity /
Euthanasia
Draft
English Civil War
Evolution
Eugenics
European-American
Settlement in the Pacific NW
Everett Massacre
Federal Negro Theater
Project
Federalists vs. AntiFederalists
Filipinos come to the Pacific
NW
Film Rating System
Flood Control Reforming
Rivers and Changing Land
Use
Flouridation
Fur Trade Brings New
Economy and Culture to the
NW
Great Depression Changes
US Economy and Politics
Hanford Reservation Brings
NW into the Atomic Age
Homelessness
Housing Authorities:
Revolution, Reform, or
Reaction
Indian Boarding Schools
Indian Treaties
Iran Hostage Crisis
Iran-Contra Scandal
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Irrigation and Agriculture
Isolationism
Japanese Immigrants come to
Pacific NW
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Japanese Internment
Jewish Immigrants come to
Pacific NW
Korean War
Lake Washington Float
Bridge
Mandatory Public Education
Martial Law in WA Territory
Mexican-American War
Missionaries
Monroe Doctrine
Mullen Road
Open Housing
Oregon Trail
Parental Advisory / Explicit
Lyrics warnings
Paris Peace Conference
Pig War
Public Broadcasting
Public Health Information
Campaigns
Public Ownership of Electric
Utilities in WA
Public Port Districts in WA
Railroads Revolutionize
Movement of People and
Goods
Reserve Officer Training
Corps (ROTC)
Revolutionary Minutemen
Sex Education
Slavery
Spanish-American War
Street Railways: Revolution
in Mass Transit
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Treaty of Versailles
Tuskeegee Syphilis Study
TV and Radio Broadcasting
Urban Renewal
Vietnam War
WA Public Power Supply
System (WPPSS)
Wilson’s Fourteen Points of
Light Plan
Workers’ Rights
WWI
WWII
… and many more!