History Day - Conflict and Compromise

Content will be added next time this annual theme is used.

These are only a few examples.

• Labor
  • Unions
  • Labor law
• Protests
  • Vietnam war
  • student protests
  • peace protest at EB and sub base
• Civil Rights Movement
• Human Rights
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Red Cross
  • The Hague
  • Nuremburg trials
  • Rwandan genocide
• Connecticut Compromise
• Constitutional changes
  • CT
  • federal
    • 13th Amendment
    • the five freedoms of the First Amendment—religion, speech, press, assembly and petition
• CT Black Governors
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
  • Sacred Insults: Religious Conflict And Compromise In 1930s Connecticut - see article in 2018 theme book
• Apportionment and gerrymandering
• USA delayed entry into WWI and WWII
• Conscientious Objectors 
• Colonial treaties with indigenous nations
• Voting Rights
  • 15th Amendment
  • woman Suffrage
    • from 2018 NHD theme book "The three organizations led by women, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, the Women’s Social and Political Union, and the Women’s League, all had very different views on how to achieve the vote. What conflicts did they have with each other, and how did they use compromise to work together to achieve their goal?"
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Privateers
• Berlin after WWII
• Sheff v. O'Neill
• Immigration
• Camp David Accords
• War of 1812 and Hartford Convention
• Chinese Exclusion Act
• CT Income Tax
• Iran Hostage Crisis
• Desmond Tutu’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
• New Deal
• President Johnson & the Great Society
• United States Institute of Peace
• nonviolent civil disobedience
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