Two major recommendations. Narrow it down as much as you can, such as %26quot;How the Civil Rights Struggle Affected Real Estate and Population Distribution in Chicago During the 1960's.%26quot;
Or %26quot;Freedom Summer: How a Workshop at Miami University [Ohio] Affected the Course of the Civil Rights Struggle in Mississippi.%26quot;
And #2. Start now. Make yourself a chart that will break down the phases and give yourself intermediate checkpoints and deadlines. Stay with that schedule.
Work as closely as you can to original sources..
That's my 2 points. Write if you need more help.I have a school project to do, and I need a topic that changed America. Suggestions?Thanks guys, I did 9/11 :)
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I have a school project to do, and I need a topic that changed America. Suggestions?how about 9/11I have a school project to do, and I need a topic that changed America. Suggestions?topic that changed america would be the emancipation proclamation or the civil rights movement, or even a modern one would be the change in america due to immigration increasing, i.e. increasing our diversityI have a school project to do, and I need a topic that changed America. Suggestions?The advancement of technology?The creation of the internet?
The use of social networking sites?
Cell phones?I have a school project to do, and I need a topic that changed America. Suggestions?Here are several topics to consider:
1.) The Louisiana Purchase:
Thomas Jefferson had campaigned for the Presidency under a program of limiting federal power at a time when France unexpectedly offered to sell the entire Louisiana Territory which would double the nation's size with a stroke of a pen. His decision showed both a capacity for compartmentalizing his beliefs and actions and the importance he placed on national expansion. Jefferson’s decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory was a decisive step in the nation’s expansion and set the stage for the acquisition of the Southwest and the Oregon Country.
2.) The Civil War (1861: Year of Decision):
Early in 1861 Robert E. Lee, a career military officer, turned down an offer to head the U.S. Army. He did so in spite of being opposed to secession and ambivalent over slavery. Lee was not willing to take up arms against his fellow Virginians, and he believed that the United States did not have the constitutional power to impose its will on states. Lee instead became the leading Confederate general of the war and one of the most respected tacticians in the history of warfare. Lee was of course not alone in his decision. Thousands of people had to decide which side to take during the war—or whether to fight at all. In far-away Oregon, for example, the Civil War splintered the powerful Democratic Party. The Civil War settled two great issues that had been left unsettled at the Constitutional Convention two generations before: the extent of states’ rights and the future of slavery. But these were also questions for individuals, questions that proved anguishing for many. People of good faith—leaders and ordinary citizens—still grapple with conflicting loyalties and principles.
http://www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojec…
3.) School Integration and The Little Rock School Crisis:
A welter of landmark legal cases, dramatic legislative actions, and physical confrontations have defined the history of race relations in the United States. One of the most important, but least appreciated decisions of the twentieth century concerning race was the one made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to insert the federal government into the racial politics of Little Rock, Arkansas in 1958. The Supreme Court, in its magisterial 1954 majority opinion in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, had reversed the doctrine of “separate but equal,” the heart of its 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, ensuring segregation for 58 years. But Brown was not a guarantee of swift change. When nine black students attempted to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School in the face of violent opposition by many whites and defiance from Governor Orval Faubus, the President, a decent man who like most whites was indifferent to the plight of blacks, first reluctantly, then increasingly firmly, acted. By sending in the 82nd Airborne and federalizing the Arkansas National Guard, Eisenhower framed the difficulty of enforcing the fundamental civil rights of an oppressed minority, even in the face of a Supreme Court opinion. The crisis of Central High School stretches back in history to the Plessy case and forward through the bussing crisis of the 1960s and ‘70s and onward to recent conflicts over school desegregation in Louisville and Seattle.
http://www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojec…
4.) Building and Dropping the Atomic Bomb:
In the history of technology, no decision has been comparable in consequences to the United States’ choice to build and eventually drop the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As some historians have noted, there was only one decision involved in the eventual use of the weapon, because the decision to build the bomb was, in essence, the decision to drop it. A new technology is hardly ever shelved before use, even though there was speculation that exploding the A-Bomb might set off a chain reaction that would burn up the atmosphere of the entire world. Nevertheless, there were two key decision makers in this story: President Franklin Roosevelt, who had to be convinced by several of the world’s most prestigious nuclear physicists, including Albert Einstein, to undertake a nuclear development project through the Manhattan Project, and his successor, Harry S. Truman, who knew nothing of the existence of this terrible weapon until he took office, just a few months before he deployed it.
http://www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojec…
5.) The Great Depression- Rebuilding America:
One of the great accomplishments of the federal government during the 1930s was to jump-start the full incorporation of the South and West into the national economy. Long treated as economic colonies of the Northeast, the South and West were areas with pockets of extreme poverty, boom-bust economies, and an inadequate industrial base. The public works programs of the 1930s helped these regions move toward economic maturity and laid the groundwork for the postwar rise of the Sunbelt. The Pacific Northwest was one of the focal points for the remaking of the American economy. The great Columbia River dams, irrigation projects, and rural electrification transformed the rural economy, and Columbia River hydropower facilitated the industrial boom of World War II.
http://www.upa.pdx.edu/IMS/currentprojec…
6.) Harlem Renaissance:
Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Variously known as the New ***** movement, the New ***** Renaissance, and the ***** Renaissance, the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s. The Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that mainstream publishers and critics took African American literature seriously and that African American literature and arts attracted significant attention from the nation at large. Although it was primarily a literary movement, it was closely related to developments in African American music, theater, art, and politics.
