Master Topic List
United States Development of the Industrial U.S./Social and Labor Issues
Colonial and Revolutionary Periods Industrial Revolution (1800s)
Jamestown and Tobacco (1607) Oliver Kelley starts the Grange (1867)
King Phillips War (1675) Yellowstone Park: Beginning of National
First Great Awakening (1730s) Great Chicago Fire and Its Impact (1872)
Imperial Reforms: Parks and Land Preservation (1872)
-Currency Act (1764) Great Railroad Strike (1873)
-Sugar Act (1764) U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
-Stamp Act (1765) Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883
-Townshed Acts (1767) Haymarket Strike and Riot (1886)
-Tea Act (1773) Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
-Intolerable Acts (1774) Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
Boston Massacre (1770) Pullman Railroad Strike (1893)
Declaration of Independence (1776) Mother Jones and Labor Rights (1900s)
Revolutionary War (1776-1783) Trust Busting & President Roosevelt (1901)
Treaty of Paris (1783) Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Northwest Indian War (1785-1795) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)
The Constitutional Convention (1787) Keating-Owen Act Child Labor Act (1916)
Creating a New Nation: The Early National Period IWW Loggers Strike (1917)
Expansion and Reform U.S. Imperialism and Immigration
Northwest Ordinance/ Land Ordinance of 1785 Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
The Whiskey Rebellion (1791) Annexation of Hawaii (1890)
The Cotton Gin (1793) “Yellow Journalism” – Hearst & Pulitzer(1890s <)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) China and the Open Door Policy (1899)
Louisiana Purchase (1803) The Spanish-American War of 1898
Pike Treaty (1805) The Platt Amendment and Cuba (1898-1934)
Missouri Compromise (1820) Philippine-American War (1899-1902)
Monroe Doctrine (1823) Boxer Rebellion (1899)
Indian Removal Act (1830) Hay-Pauncefote Treaty and the Panama Canal (1901-1914)
War for Texas Independence (1835) Gentlemen’s Agreement – Restricting Japanese (1907)
1848 Seneca Falls Convention Literacy Tests – Restrictions on Immigration (1905)
California Gold Rush (1848-1855) American Intervention in Nicaragua (1909)
Compromise of 1850 Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) The
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 Lusitania Incident (1915) American
Caning of Charles Sumner (1856) Neutrality in WWI (1914) American
Harper’s Ferry (1859) intervention in WWI (1917) Wilson’s
The Pony Express (1860) Fourteen Points (1918)
Homestead Act (1862) Emergency Quota Act (1921) and National Origins Act (1924)
Civil War and Reconstruction Roaring Twenties and Great Depression
Nat Turner’s Slave Revolt (1831) Late Women’s Suffrage Movement (1900s)
South Carolina secedes from the Union (1860) Prohibition (1920-1933)
New York Draft Riots of 1863 Teapot Dome Scandal (1920s)
Battle of Antietam (1862) The Jazz Age (1920s/30s)
The Battle of Gettysburg (1863) The Red Scare (1920s)
The Gettysburg Address (1863) Scopes Trial (1925)
The Dakota War of 1862 Bonus Army March on Washington (1932)
Homestead Act (1862)
The Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
The ‘New South’ (1877 <)
Freedmen’s Bureau (1865-1869)
Memphis Riots of 1866
Black Code – Jim Crow Laws (1876-1965)
Reconstruction Amendments (1865-1870)
New Deal: Civil Rights
-Emergency Banking Act (1933) African-American Topics
-Glass-Stegall Act (1933) Plessey vs. Ferguson – “Separate but Equal” (1892)
-Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933) Ida Wells and anti-lynching (1892)
-Relief Agencies (1933-1935) Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois (1895)
-Social Security (1935) NAACP (National Association for the
West Coast Waterfront Strike of 1934 Advancement Of Colored People (1905)
Wagner Act (1935) Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism (1920s)
Flint Sit-Down Strike (1937) Harlem Renaissance (1920s/30s)
Recession of 1937 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932-1972)
Tuskegee Airmen (1940)
World War II and the Cold War Race Riots in America – Effects of Great Migration (1941-1943)
Neutrality Acts (1930s) 1948 Democratic National Convention
Lend-Lease Act (1941) Integration of U.S. military – Korean War (1950s)
Pearl Harbor (1941) Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)
Internment of Japanese Americans (1940s) Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Navajo Code Talkers (1942) Little Rock School Crisis (1957)
G.I. Bill of Rights (1944) Sit-In Movement – non violent protest (1959)
Potsdam Conference (1945) Greensboro Sit-in (1960)
Truman Doctrine (1947) Freedom Riders (1961)
Fair Deal (1940s/50s) Violence in Birmingham (1963)
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) (1947) March on Washington (1963)
Marshall Plan (1948) 1964 Civil Rights Act
Berlin Airlift (1948) Black Power (1960s)
Recognition of Israel (1948) Malcolm X and the National of Islam (1960s)
NATO (1949) Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)
National Housing Act of 1949 Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1960s)
Korean War (1950s) Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party (1964)
Warsaw Pact (1955) Busing to Achieve School Integration (1970s)
Federal Act Highway Act (1956) Affirmative Action (1970s)
Digital Revolution (1950s <)
Geneva Accords (1960s <) Latino Topics
Neo-Imperialism: 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
1953 US-backed Iranian Coup League of United Latin American Citizens (1929)
1954 Guatemalan Coup Zoot Suit Riots (1943)
1960 South Vietnamese Coup Attempt American GI Forum – Latino Veterans (1945)
U2 Spy Plane Incident (1960) Mexican-American Political Association (1960)
Bay of Pigs Incident (1961) The Chicano Nationalism Movement (1960s)
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) Che Guevara and Marxist Revolution (1960s)
Counter Culture of the 1960s United Farm Workers (1966)
Vietnam War – The Camera at War (1960s/70s) Brown Berets (1967)
Opposition to the Vietnam War (1962-1975) Mexican-American Youth Organization (1967)
Limited Test Ban Treaty (1963) Bilingual Education – Immigration Students(1968)
Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964) La Raza Unida (1969)
1968 My Lai Massacre
SALT I Treaty (1970) Native American Topics
Kent State Massacre (1970) Native American boarding schools (1880s)
Watergate Scandal (1972) Indian Removal Act (1830)
Fall of Saigon (1975) Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835)
National Energy Act (1978) Treaty of Mendota (1851)
SALT II Treaty (1979) The Dawes Act (1887)
Kent State Massacre (1970) Wounded Knee Massacre (1890)
Iran Hostage Crisis (1981) Indian Citizenship Act of 1924
Iran Contra Affair (1986)) Indian Reorganization Act (1934)
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) (1992) Navajo Code Talkers in WWII (1942)
World Trade Organization (1995)
National Congress of the American Indians (1944) Supreme Court Cases
Termination Policy (1950s) Marbury v. Madison (1803)
American Indian Movement (1960s/70s) McCullough v. Maryland (1819)
‘Red Power’ – Pan Indian Identity (1960s) Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Tuscarora Reservation – Niagara Power Plant(1960) Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896)
1968 Indian Civil Rights Act Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
Occupation of Alcatraz (1971) Schenck v. United States (1919)
“Trail of Broken Treaties” and BIA Takeover (1972) Mendez v. Westminster (1945)
Wounded Knee Incident (1973) Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The Longest Walk (1978) Baker v. Carr (1962)
(NAGPRA) Native American Graves Protection and Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Repatriation Act (1990) Loving v. Virginia (1967)
University of California Regents v. Allan Bakke (1968)
LGBT Topics Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs – pioneer of the modern Gay Rights Roe v. Wade (1973)
Movement (1860s) New Jersey vs. TLO: Student search and Seizure (1985)
The Order of Chaeronea (1890s) Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier: Student press censorship
Trial of Oscar Wilde (1890s) (1988)
The Ariston Hotel Bath Hotel Raids (1903)
Harden-Eulenburg Affair (1907-1909) World History
The Pink Triangle (1930s/40s) Europe
The Lavender Scare (1950s) Boudica and the Celtic revolt (AD60 or 61) Scottish Wars of
Stonewall Riots (1969) Independence (13th/14th centuries)
Gay Liberation Front (1969) Scientific Revolution (16th century)
‘Save our Children’ Campaign (1977-78) English Revolution (1642-1660)
Glorious Revolution of 1688
Women in History French Revolution (1789)
Christine de Pizan; The Book of the City of the Ladies The Thermadorian Reaction (1794)
(1405) Napoleonic Wars (1800s)
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the revolt against Patriarch Luddite Revolt in England (1812)
Spain (1690s) Congress of Vienna (1815)
Olympe de Gouges and the French Revolution (1780s/90s) Decembrist Revolt of 1825
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Reform Act of 1832
Woman (1792) Revolutions of 1848 (France and Germany)
Sarah Hale and Ladies Magazine (1820s) Offences Against the Person Act of 1861
Seneca Falls Convention (1848) Paris Commune of 1871
National Women’s Rights Convention (1850) Unification of Italy (1871)
Elizabeth Blackwell and Female Education Reform (1850s) Russian Revolution of 1905
Nellie Bly and Stunt Journalism (1880s) Easter Rising in Dublin (1916)
Emma Goldman and the Anarchist political party in the October/ Bolshevik Revolution (1917)
U.S. (1900s) Bela Kun and the Communist Uprising in Hungry (1919)
Margaret Sanger and Birth Control (1920s) Irish War of Independence (1919)
19th Amendment (1920) Spartakist Revolt of 1919
Simone de Beauvoir and Feminism (1930s/40s) Reforms of the Weimar Republic (1919)
Rosie the Riveter – Role of Women in WWII (1940s) Statute of Westminster (1931)
Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique (1963) Spanish Civil War – Francisco Franco (1936-1939)
National Organization of Women (NOW) (1966) Kristallnacht (1938)
Equal Rights Amendment (1972) Rise of Nazism and ‘New Order’ (1930s/40s)
Title IX (1972) Paris Uprising and French Resistance in WWII (1940s)
Sandra D O’Connor and appointment to Supreme Court
(1981)
White Rose (anti-Hitler resistance group) (1942) Great Reforms of Benito Juarez (1840s-1850s)
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising War of Reform in Mexico (1857-1861)
Invasion of Normandy (1944) Ateneo de la Juventud (1910)
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Cristero War (1926-1929)
Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization of the USSR (1960s) Sandino in Nicaragua (1927-1933)
Prague Spring of 1968 Banana Massacre (1928)
Student Revolts of Paris (‘May 68’) Brazilian Revolution of 1930 – Getulio Vargas
Gorbachev’s Reforms (1980s) Bolivian Civil War – David Toro (1930s)
Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) 1948 Costa Rican Civil War Puerto
Yugoslav Civil Wars (1991-1995) Rican Revolution (1950) Cuban
August Coup (1991) Revolution (1895 and 1959)
Augusto Pinochet and Chile (1973)
Asia Salvador Allende’s Reforms in Socialist Chile (1970s)
Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) “Dirty War” or Guerra Sucia (1976-1983)
The Opium Wars (1839-1842 and 1859-1860) 1994 Zapatista Rebellion
Philippine Revolution or Tagalog War (1896 <)
The Chinese Revolution of 1911 Middle East
Non-Cooperation Movement and Gandhi (1920s) The Indian Rebellion of 1857 (The Indian Mutiny)
Indian Salt March (1930) The Turkish Republic and Ataturk’s Reforms (1920s)
Thai Revolution of 1932 The Young Turk Revolution (1908)
Ho Chi Min and Vietnam’s Struggle for Independence The Arab Revolt of 1916
(1940s) Arab-Israeli Conflict (1948 <) Iranian’s
The Indo-Pakistani Conflict (1947-1971) Women Movement (1960s) Saur
1949 Chinese Civil War Revolution in Afghanistan (1978)
The Tibetan Uprising (1959)
Mao and the Cultural Revolution (1950s) Ideology
Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms in Martin Luther’s 95 Theses (1517)
Communist China (1960s) Henry VIII’s Break with Rome (1530)
People Power Revolution in Philippines Karl Marx and the Revolt against Capitalism(1860s)
(1983-1986) Bolshevik-Menshevik Split (1903)
Tiananmen Square Protests (1989) The Keynesian Revolution (1930s)
Sino-Soviet Split (1950s-1960s)
Africa Different Styles of thinking and how they have brought about
Scramble for Africa (19th century) turning points
The Jihad Movement of Islam (19th century) -Descartes and Rationalism (17th century)
Maji Maji Revolution (1905-1907) -Greek Skepticism
Mau Mau Uprising (1950s) -Idealism
Hutu vs. Tutsi – Rise of Rwandan Genocide(1959) -Pragmatism (1898)
The Congo Crisis (1960-1966) -Communism (19th century)
Non-aligned Movement (1961) -Fascism (20th century)
Angola War for Independence (1961-1975) -Social Democracy (19th Century)
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963-1964) -Nationalism
De-colonization: -Conservatism
- Egypt (1953) Critiquing the American Childhood; Paul Goodman (1940s)
- Somalia (1960)
- South Africa (1961) The Arts
- Algeria (1962) Painting and Sculpture
Surrealism (1920s)
Latin and South America Neo-Classicalism (mid 18th to 19th century)
Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) The Painting Style of El Greco (16th century)
Hidalgo and the Mexican Revolt against Spain (1810) Monet; Founding Modernism
The Mexican Revolution of 1810 (late 19th/ early 20th century)
Jose de San Martin and the Liberation of Chile (1810-1826)
The various modernist movements and how they could be Science and Technology
considered a Turning Point Copernicus and the Heliocentric Model (1540s)
-Pablo Picasso; Founding Cubism Galileo and Heliocentrism (1620s)
-Fauvism Isaac Newton and Gravity (1660s-80s)
-Expressionism Bessemer process (1850s)
-De Stijl (‘The Style’) Darwin and Evolution (1860s)
-Dada Edison and Light Bulb (1880s)
Jackson Pollock; Abstract Expressionist (1950s) Steamship (early 19th century)
Bauhaus and the International Style(1920s/30s) The Sewing Machine (1800s)
Nouveau Realisme (1960s) Cyrus McCormick and the reaper (1834)
Pop Art (1950s) Charles Goodyear and Vulcanized
Socialist Realism (1930s) Rubber (1837)
Brutalism; Reaction to Rationalism (1950s/60s) Samuel Morse and telegraph (1838)
Bessemer Process (1855)
Literature Alexander Graham Bell and telephone (1876)
Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) Invention of the light bulb and its impact on society (1879)
Literary style of Ernest Hemingway (1920s/30s) Freud and Psychoanalysis (1890s)
Reaction of Pablo Neruda to Neo-Liberalism in South Diesel Engine (1890s)
America (1930s-50s) Wireless Telegraph (1890s)
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle (1906) Marie Curie and Radiation (early 1900s)
Political Statements of Isabel Allende regarding Pinochet Parson’s Marine Turbine Engine (1900s)
Chile (1970s/80s) The Lucas Geiser: Oil Discovery in American (1901)
Wright Brothers and their flying machine (1903)
Architecture Ford’s Model T and the Assembly Line (1908)
Francesco Borromini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1600’s Burton process (1913)
Italy) HMS Dreadnought (1906)
Frank Lloyd Wright (1880s/90s) Birth of Television (1927)
International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Watson and Crick: Discovering the Structure of DNA (1950s)
Decorative Arts (1925) Borlaug and the Green Revolution (1960s)
Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web (1989)
Music
Verdi’s La Traviata (1852) Health and Medicine
Igor Stravinsky; Revolutionizing the Ballet (1915) Development of Germ Theory of Disease (1700s-1870s)
Arnold Schoenberg and atonal music (1920s) Holmes and Anesthesia (1846)
Bob Dylan; folk-rock music (1960s) Ignaz Semmelweis and the Importance of Handwashing (1847)
Punk Rock (1970s) Joseph Lister and Antiseptics (1883-1897)
Freud and Psychoanalysis (1890s)
Film Birth of the Food and Drug Administration (1906)
The Birth of a Nation (1915) Keating-Owen Child Labor Act (1916)
Battleship Potemkin (1925) Discovery of Penicillin (1928)
The Jazz Singer (1927) Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith: Alcoholics Anonymous (1935)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Dr. Lillehei and Open Heart Surgery (1952)
Citizen Kane (1941) Polio Vaccine (1955)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) Roe v. Wade (1973)
Psycho (1960)
West Side Story (1961)
Sports History Individuals
Implementation of forward pass in football(1906) Harriet Bishop – education reform (1850s)
Development of NCAA (1906) Frances Densmore – preserving Native customs (early 20th
Implementation of hockey helmets (1930’s) century)
Racial Integration of Basketball (1942) J.A.A. Burnquist and the Commission of Public Safety (1917)
NCAA Sanity Code (1948) Hubert H. Humphrey and Civil Rights (1940s/50s)
Invention of Instant Replay (1955) Jane Grey Swisshelm – abolitionist (1860s)
Implementation of the three-point line (1961) Roy Wilkins – activist for Civil Rights (1950s/60s)
James “Crash” Ryan and Seatbelts (1950s)
Minnesota History Topics
Native American Miscellaneous
1851 Treaty of Mendota George D. Munsing- underwear revolution (1880’s)
1862 Dakota War (Conflict) James J. Hill – Great Northern Railway (1880s)
Louis Riel and Red River Rebellion (1869-70) C.C. Washburn and “New Process Flour” (1880s)
1934 Indian Reorganization Act and MN Ojibwe Betty Crocker and General Mills (1930s)
American Indian Movement (1960-70’s) Rondo Neighborhood and I-94 (1960s)
Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (1990)
Environmental
Hinckley Fire of 1894
Taconite Mining and the dumping and violationof Rivers
and Harbors Act of 1899
Merritt Brothers – Ore mining (1880s)
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Controversy – Sound Politics
and the Wilderness Act of1964
1962-63 Minnesota Oil Spills, Environment Laws
Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution (1970s)
Power line Controversy (1970s)
Labor
Taconite Mining and Rivers and Harbors Act (1899)
Oliver Kelley and the Grange (1860s)
1907 Mesabi Range Strike
1916 Iron Range Strike
Minneapolis Trucker Strike of 1934
1946 Minneapolis Teachers’ Strike
Farmer-Labor Movement of Minnesota
1970 Minneapolis Teachers
The Willmar 8 (1977)
1985-1986 Hormel P-9 Strike (Austin)
Health/Medicine
Mayo Brothers and Mayo Clinic (early 20thcent.)
Bone Marrow Transplants (1968)
Health Maintenance Organizations in MN
Minnesota Eugenics Society and founder Charles Fremont
Dight (1923)
Sister Elizabeth Kenney and physical therapy (1942)
Abortion Rights/ Pro-Life Movement (1970s)
Planned Parenthood
Minnesota
State of Minnesota v. Philip Morris (1994)