1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s Jigsaw Assignment Top 10 Lists

50s/60s (Stuff we didn’t get to) List

  • Labor Issues (Cesar Chavez)
  • Consumer Issues (Ralph Nader)
  • Start of Environmentalism (Rachel Carson- “Silent Spring”)
  • “Black Power” & Black Panthers
  • Malcolm X
  • Civil Rights Cases
  • Miranda v. Arizona
  • Escobedo v. Illinois
  • Mapp v. Ohio
  • Gideon v. Wainwright
  • Woodstock/Hippies/Anti-war
  • J. Edgar Hoover
  • Espionage (Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss, Claude Fuchs)
  • JFK & LBJ (Major Policies & events only!!!)

1970s List

  • Richard Nixon Administration
  • New Federalism
  • Détente & China Trip
  • Watergate/Resignation
  • End of Vietnam
  • Paris Peace Accords
  • Kent State
  • Energy Crisis & Economic Collapse
  • OPEC
  • Oil embargo
  • Environmental movement
  • EPA
  • Clean Air & Water Act
  • Three-Mile Island
  • SALT Treaty
  • Roe v. Wade
  • Jimmy Carter Administration
  • USSR invasion of Afghanistan
  • “malaise” speech
  • Camp David Accords
  • Pentagon Papers
  • 26th Amendment
  • Equal Rights Amendment & Women’s Movement& NOW
  • America’s Bicentennial
  • Domestic Terror
  • Patty Hearst & SLA
  • The “Weathermen”

1980s List

  • Ronald Reagan Administration
  • Iran-Contra affair
  • Assassination attempt
  • New Conservatism
  • Reaganomics
  • “Star War” (SDI)
  • Hostage Crisis
  • Fall of Berlin Wall
  • Black Monday (stock market collapse)
  • Challenger disaster
  • Foreign policy
  • Grenada
  • Panama
  • Beirut
  • Sandra Day O’Connor & Geraldine Ferraro
  • PC revolution (computers)
  • IBM
  • Windows
  • Olympics (boycotts) & the Cold War
  • George H. W. Bush administration
  • No new taxes
  • “Culture Wars”
  • -Abortion
  • -Immigration
  • -Affirmative Action
  • -Bilingual Education
  • -Multiculturalism
  • -Communism
  • -Homosexuality
  • -Church and State
  • AIDS crisis

1990s List

  • Persian Gulf War (1st one)
  • End of the Cold War
  • Bill Clinton Administration
  • Impeachment
  • Economy
  • Welfare reform
  • NAFTA & World Trade Organization
  • 27th Amendment
  • Ross Perot (3rd party candidate)
  • Terrorism
  • World Trade Center attack
  • Osama bin Laden’s fatwa
  • Anti-government feelings
  • Ruby Ridge
  • Waco
  • Oklahoma City bombing
  • Internet
  • Anti-globalization
  • Battle in Seattle
  • OJ Simpson trial
  • Global Warming (Climate change)

2000s List

  • Election of 2000 (Bush vs. Gore)
  • George W. Bush Administration
  • Deregulation policies
  • Patriot Act
  • Axis of Evil speech
  • Homeland Security Agency
  • Hurricane Katrina
  • War on Terror (9/11 & beyond)
  • Iraq War
  • Afghanistan War
  • USS Cole
  • Wiki-leaks & Edward Snowden
  • Barack Obama Administration
  • Election of 2008
  • Universal health care
  • Deepwater Horizon spill
  • Economic crisis & bailout
  • Economic disparity
  • Columbia accident & end of space shuttle program
  • Immigration issues
  • Changing Technology
  • Cellphones
  • Social Media
  • Computers
  • Citizens United v. FEC

INSTRUCTIONS

  • YOU WILL HAVE 2 CLASS SESSIONS TO COMPLETE YOUR RESEARCH & PRESENTATION (SOME MAY HAVE TO BE DONE AS HOMEWORK
  • YOU WILL HAVE ABOUT 15 MINUTES PER DECADE!!!! Be BRIEF but THOROUGH!!!
  • We will have a day & a half of presentations & then take a test over all the material (last half of Friday)
  • Your grade will be a combination of effort, classroom behavior, notes, presentation, discussion participation, and test.

1. You will be assigned to a “home” team of 2- 4 students.
2. You will be given one of the study topics (one of the five decades

3. Students work with members of their group to research their topics. They prepare a short presentation and decide how they will teach their topic to the class. May be a powerpoint, worksheet or outline. Should contain important facts, information, and diagrams related to the study topic.