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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