Research Topic Selection

United States Events 1900 - 1999

Research Paper Background This is a LANGUAGE ARTS assignment!

Social Studies teachers are helping with topic selection and can help with research

You will be selecting a topic in history between 1900-1999 that relates to the United States

Must have a cause and effect relationship Bad example: Abraham Lincoln was an awesome

guy who did a lot of things for America Good Example: Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation

Proclamation changed race relations in America

Research Paper Background

When selecting a topic you will be looking to answer these three questions What it did/was? (cause) What was the overall effect? (effect) Why it is important? (effect/conclusion)

Timeline

January 21st – February 3rd Topic Selection and Background Research

February 3rd – February 14th

Gathering/Assessing Sources February 14th – February 21st

Research and Note taking February 21st – February 28th

Graphic Organizer and Outline February 28th – March 2nd

Writing Body Paragraphs FINAL COPY DUE: March 20th

1900 – 1909: Expansionism/America Takes Flight

Science and Tech Wright Brothers first flight, NY city subway, Model T

created Arts/Literature/Music

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, First silent movie Government/Politics

Assassination of Pres. McKinley, Chinese Exclusion Act, NAACP founded

Sports Creation of MLB, 1st World Series, 1st Rose Bowl

Misc. Galveston Hurricane, San Francisco Earthquake

1910 – 1919: The Great War/Progressivism

Science and Tech. Halley’s Comet, First assembly line

Arts/Literature/Music Charlie Chaplin

Government/Politics Standard Oil broken up, Panama Canal opened, US

Coast Guard established, 18th Amendment Sports

1st Indianapolis 500, Babe Ruth debut, Black Sox Scandal

Misc. Boy Scouts founded, Girl Scouts formed, Oreo created,

Daylight Savings, Ford Company, Flu epidemic

1920 – 1929: The Roaring 20’s/Jazz Age

Science and Tech Penicillin discovered, bubble gum invented

Arts/Literature/Music Harlem Renaissance begins, talking movies, Mickey Mouse,

Time magazine founded Government/Politics

19th Amendment, Tea Pot Dome Scandal, Stock Market Crash, Scopes Monkey Trial

Sports 1st pro football league, 1st Winter Olympics, Babe Ruth

homerun record Misc.

Miss America pageant, Lincoln Memorial created, Lindbergh flies the Atlantic, St. Valentines Massacre/Al Capone, Amelia Earhart

1930 – 1939: The Great Depression/The Turbulent 30’s

Science and Tech Pluto discovered, Albert Einstein letter to FDR

Arts/Literature/Music Gone with the Wind published, War of Worlds, Wizard of OZ

premiers Government/Politics

FDR/New Deal, 21st Amendment Sports

1st Masters Tournament, Jessie Owens wins gold in Berlin Misc.

Scottsboro Boys trial, Empire State Building created, Amelia Earhart disappears, Lindbergh baby kidnapped, Dust Bowl, Hoover Dam completed, Golden Gate Bridge opened, Bonnie and Clyde killed, John Dillinger robberies

1940 – 1949: WWII

Science and Tech First non-stop flight around world

Arts/Literature/Music 1984 by George Orwell

Government/Politics Military segregation ended, Alger Hiss trial

Sports NBA founded, Jackie Robinson breaks the race barrier

Misc. Mt. Rushmore completed, Pearl Harbor, Battle of

Midway, Race Riots in Detroit/Harlem, Chuck Yeager sound barrier, D-Day, Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1950 – 1959: The Age of Consumerism/ Baby Boom/ Cold War Science and Tech

1st credit card, 1st organ transplant, 1st trans-continental television broadcast, Polio vaccine, DNA discovered, NASA founded, Explorer I launched

Arts/Literature/Music Elvis and Ed Sullivan, US quiz shows fixed

Government/Politics Rosenberg's executed, McCarthyism, Brown v Board

Sports Roger Bannister 4:00 mile, 1st Daytona 500

Misc. Disney Land opened, Emmitt Till murdered, Rosa Parks,

McDonald’s founded, Little Rock 9

1960 – 1969: Civil Rights Era/Vietnam

Science and Tech 1st man on moon

Arts/Literature/Music The Beatles, Woodstock, British Invasion

Government/Politics Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK + RFK assassination,

Sports Cassius Clay wins Word Heavyweight championship, 1st Superbowl

Misc. Famous escape from Alcatraz, Zodiac killer, Manson Family

murders Civil Rights

1st Sit-ins, Freedom Riders, James Meredith Ole Miss, Medgar Evers murdered, “I have a dream”, MLK and Malcolm X assassination

1970 – 1979: The Counterculture Science and Tech

Viking I lands on Mars, Three Mile Island meltdown, 1st test tube baby

Arts/Literature/Music Roots, Star Wars

Government/Politics Kent State killings, Watergate, Roe v Wade, Iran Hostage

Crisis Sports

Mark Spitz wins 7 gold medals, Arthur Ash Wimbledon, Secretariat

Misc. 1st Earth Day, Patty Hearst and Paul Getty kidnapped, NY

blackouts, Son of Sam, Sears Tower, Jones Town massacre

1980 – 1989: Conservatism Science and Tech

Sally Ride, Challenger Explosion, Ozone, CNN Arts/Literature/Music

John Lennon assassinated, E.T, Thriller released Government/Politics

Reagan assassination attempt, Sandra Day O’Connor, Colin Powel

Sports “Miracle on Ice”, Pete Rose most career hits

Misc. Mt. St. Helens, AIDS breakout, Exxon spill, Stock

Market crash of 1987

1990 – 1999: Fall of the Soviet Union/Growth of Terrorism

Science and Tech Hubble Space Telescope, “Dolly” clowned

Arts/Literature/Music The Simpsons premiers, The Grunge movement

Government/Politics Clinton Impeached, Gulf War

Sports World Series cancelled, Summer Olympic bombings

Misc. LA Riots/Rodney King, Waco standoff, 1st World Trade

Center bombing, Oklahoma City bombing, OJ Simpson case, Columbine shootings, Unabomber, JFK Jr killed