Suggested Topics: Debate& Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences

As you pick a topic that fits this year's theme, consider the following factors:
1. It should be a topic that is of personal interest.
2. You should discover the time and place in history that the debate or act of diplomacy began.
3. You should examine it's historical importance answering the following questions. How was it important at the time it happened? Is it still important? Did the event change history? What did we learn from it?

General topics include:

Debates and Diplomacy involved in American Treaties ex.) Treaty of Ghent
Debates concerning any Reform Movements ex.) Abolitionists Movement
Debates concerning any of the Civil Liberties ex.) Freedom of the Press
Debates concerning any of the ratified amendments to the Constitution
Presidential Debates ex.) Kennedy vs. Nixon
Diplomatic Missions that failed or succeded

Cold War Era
Cuban Missile Crisis: Diplomacy to the Last Second
Marshall Plan: Diplomacy at its Best
Berlin Wall
President Reagan-Soviet Premier Gorbachev Star War Diplomacy

Supreme Court Cases
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Roe v Wade
Dred Scott v Sanford
Amistad Case

Civil Rights
Malcom X or Martin Luther King: The Best Path to Justice
Governor Fabus vs President Eisenhower
Governor Wallace vs President Kennedy
Booker T Washington vs W.E.B. Du Bois
John Brown vs Frederick Douglas

World War II
FDR-Stalin-Churchill Diplomacy During the War
Neutrality Acts and Isolation

Early American History
The Declaration of Independence: The Ultimate Act of Diplomacy
Ben Franklin Diplomacy and the French
Ben Franklin’s Albany Plan of Union: Diplomacy Ahead of its Time
The Great Compromise: The Birth of the Constitution
Federalist vs Anti-Federalists The Ratification of the Constitution
Chief Logan and the Mingo Indians
Jay’s Treaty
Louisiana Purchase
XYZ Affair
Monroe Doctrine
Clay’s American System
Abolitionist: The Struggle to End Slavery
Indian Removal Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Lincoln Douglas Debates: A Struggle for the Soul of America
Trent Affair: A Diplomatic Crisis
Cotton Diplomacy: The South’s Key to Victory
Fort Sumter: Lincoln’s Diplomacy and the Start of the Civil War
U.S. Diplomacy During the Spanish American War
Theodore Roosevelt Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick- Panama Canal- Roosevelt Corollary
Yalta Conference: A Failed Attempt at Diplomacy