History Day Project Ideas

HISTORY DAY 2010-2011

4TH GRADE

SUGGESTED TOPICS

DEBATE AND DIPLOMACY

FAILURES, SUCCESSES & CONSEQUENCES

Early European Explorers
Diplomacy on el Camino Real
Junipero Serra’s Diplomacy in building the Missions
Diplomacy within the Missions
Mexico Gets the Missions, How did it Happen?
Debate and History of Rebuilding the Missions
Revolt and Death at Mission San Diego
Decision to move Mission San Carlos Borromeo inland
Father Francisco de Lasuen’s Defense of the Mission system
Lorenzo Asisara’s Defense of the Mission Indians
Cry of Dolores
Pablo Vicente de Sola’s Negotiations
Secularization of the Missions, Winners and Losers
Mexican War for Independence, Effect on the Missions
Statehood vs Fugitive Slave Act
John Bidwell’s Role in the Bear Flag Revolt
Bernarda Ruiz’s diplomacy with John c. Fremont
Gold Rush Diplomacy, How to get a Claim
Juana Briones de Miranda, Working with the Indians
Toypurina’s Planned Revolt
Bear Flag Revolt, Debate and Diplomacy
California Ranchos’ Rise to Power
Gold Rush: Miners vs Chinese Immigrants
California Statehood: The Monterrey Convention
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
California’s First Constitution
Land Act of 1851
Freedom for Biddy Mason
Theodore Judah’s Plan for the First Transcontinental Railroad
Modoc War (1872-1873)
Willliam Mulholland and the Los Angeles Aqueduct
John Muir