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SAMPLE TOPICS

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Suggested Teaching Idea:
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For the Teacher: In the diagram below, demonstrate to students how to expand a topic and explore successes, failures and consequences,
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t Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903): Debated Rights using The Constitutional Convention and The Yalta Conference as examples.
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the topics they researched and what was discovered.
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DEBATE
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succeeded in continuous ignored the slavery question
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unity of the nation
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DIPLOMACY
Yalta Conference Yalta Conference succeeded in U.S. and Britain compromised Spread of Communism

ARC Identifier 595010 / Local Identifier RG 241: Patent 47,631, Sheet 1. Item from Record
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Russia into diplomatic dialogue establishment of the Eastern Block
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Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1973
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Broadening Boundaries—Shrinking limitations
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