AMMY+Awards

**AMMY Awards!**

__//**6th period:**//__ You need to select you winner from the nominations lists below, and based on the criteria for each category. You need to bring that list to class on Wed. You will be writing up 1-2 sentences per winner as a justification in class.

__//**7th period:**//__ You need to select your winners in each category from the nomination lists below, //based on the criteria// in each category. You need to write up 1-2 sentences per winner justifying why you chose them. Bring these WITH YOU to class on Thursday. You will NOT have time to right them up in class.


 * Nomination Lists (Click [[file:The American History Awards Chart.doc]] for the Criteria)

Note: Some nominations were eliminated because they failed to meet the basic requirements of the category. i.e. John Quincy Adams was never Vice-President and therefore inelegible for "most impportant Vice President"; the Black Death happened in Europe at least 150 years before Columbus, and at least 300 years before there were "Americans" as we have been discussing them; Marie Curie was Polish who became a French citizen; Joseph Stalin was not an American; Sun Tzu wrote the Art of War in Chinese in the 6th century BC - more than 2000 years prior to the US and at least 1000 years before the English Language. ** 1776 Saving Private Ryan The Patriot Forrest Gump Roots Grapes of Wrath John Adams Apocalypse Now Glory Of Mice and Men Fahrenheit 9/11 Pearl Harbor Cold Mountain National Treasure Tora! Tora! Tora! Land of Our Fallen Dr. Strangelove
 * __Best Movie About American History__**

__**Most Important American Movie (any genre)**__ The Blind Side Citizen Kane The Matrix Casablanca The Godfather Wizard of Oz Star Wars Shawshank Redemption To Kill a Mockingbird The Hurt Locker Black Hawk Down Up Saving Private Ryan Die Hard Band of Brothers Green Mile American Gangster Ben Hur Forrest Gump Ferris Bueller's Day Off Annie Star Trek Transformers The Shining Starship Troopers Gone with the Wind The Jazz Singer An Inconvenient Truth Mean Girls Titanic Silence of the Lambs Hercules Toy Story 3:10 to Yuma Evil Dead Lord of the Rings Passion of the Christ Aladdin

__**Most Important Musical Genre**__ Jazz Rap Rock & Roll Grunge Gospel/Spirituals Tribal Blues Bluegrass Classical R&B Funk Disco Pop Ragtime Folk Death Metal/Heavy Metal Techno Reggae

Car TV Radio Electricity Cotton Gin Assembly line Personal Computers Printing Press Calculator Internet tampons integrated circuit polio vaccine synthetic polymers light bulb telegraph microwave telephone machine gun birth control pill cell phone steam engine railroad hydraulics twinkies airplanes space shuttle lasers condoms
 * __Most Important Invention/Technology__**

__**Best Amendment**__ 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 10th 13th 14th 15th 18th 19th

__**Most Significant Foreign Policy/Doctrine/Treaty/Action**__ Monroe Doctrine Treaty of Paris (1763) Treaty of Paris (1783) Marshall Plan Declaration of Independence Roosevelt Corollary Reaganomics (in its foreign policy components) Bush Doctrine Wilson's 14 Points Washington's Farewell Address Truman Doctrine Isolationism Paris Peace Accord Treaty of Versailles

__**Best Ally (at a specific point in time)**__ France UK/Great Britain Japan China Russia Soviet Union (USSR) Israel Canada Vietnam

__**Worst Crisis**__ Cuban Missile Crisis World War II Civil War Great Depression Nullification Pearl Harbor Influenza Epidemic 1919 BP Oil Spill 9/11 Cyanide Capsule Poisoning Hurricane Katrina Swine Flu Bleeding Kansas Boston Massacre Columbine Shootings Trail of Tears Anthrax Mailings

__**Best Territorial Acquisition**__ 13 Colonies Mexican Cession Louisiana Purchase Annexation of Texas Hawaii Florida California Guam Ohio Puerto Rico Philippines

__**Best Speech**__ Washington's Farewell Address King's "I Have a Dream" Speech Gettysburg Address Bush's Response to 9/11 The Iron Curtain Speech Kennedy's Inaugural Address Emancipation Proclamation Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall" speech William Jennings Bryan "Cross of Gold" Obama's speech at 2008 convention FDR - "nothing to fear but fear itself" Nixon's resignation Kennedy -- "ich bin ein Berliner" Reagan's response to the Challenger explosion

__**Most Significant Election**__ -- //Some Issues -- we will have to address this in class//

__**Most Significant Asian-American/Native American/Hispanic American**__ Cesar Chavez Freida Kahlo Yoyo Ma Pocahantas Sacagawea Korematsu Bruce Lee Tecumseh Pontiac Sitting Bull Crazy Horse

Martin Luther King, Jr Malcolm X WEB DuBois Frederick Douglas Booker T. Washington Barack Obama Harriet Tubman Thurgood Marshall Colin Powell George Washington Carver Jimi Hendrix Langston Hughes Marion Barry Michelle Obama Oprah Michael Jackson Sam Cooke Big L Notorious BIG Muhammad Ali
 * __Most Significant African-American__**

__**Most Significant American Woman**__ Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Harriet Tubman Rosa Parks Eleanor Roosevelt Carrie Chapman Catt Amelia Earhart Helen Keller Sacagawea Lucretia Mott Oprah Dorthea Dix Pocahantes Dolly Madison Anne Hutchinson Hillary Clinton Sarah Palin Lady Gaga

__**Most Important Social Policy**__ Civil Rights Act of 1965 New Deal Social Security (one particular program of the New Deal) Prohibition Great Society Supply-Side Economic Policies (in it's implications on social policy only) Jim Crow Laws Slavery Medicare/Medicaid Welfare Economic Bailout (2008-9) Obama's Health Care Plan Progressivism the American System Roe v. Wade -- Women's right to choose Title 9 Prop. 8 ( a CA proposition legalizing gay marriage -- it failed at the vote)

__**Most Important Vice President**__ Dick Cheney Lyndon Johnson Al Gore Thomas Jefferson John Adams Richard Nixon Walter Mondale Tyler Andrew Johnson Harry Truman Spiro Agnew

__**Most Important Book/Pamphlet**__ Common Sense Uncle Tom's Cabin Grapes of Wrath The Jungle Bill of Rights The Bible (not sure this fits -- not written in English, translated later) Catcher in the Rye The Great Gatsby Treatise on Government (John Locke) Silent Spring Harry Potter Series Declaration of Independence Constitution

__**Most Important Pastime**__ Baseball Going to the Movies Football Watching TV Drive-In Movies Basketball Swimming (Not sure if this meets the criteria of "Uniquely American" Gun Sports & Hunting Reading Bowling Going for a drive (like a Sunday Afternoon outing -- not commuting or going to the store) Rollerskating Volleyball

__**Most Significant President**__ Lincoln Washington Jefferson Kennedy FDR Jackson Madison Obama Reagan Nixon J. Q. Adams Eisenhower Wilson Teddy Roosevelt

__**Most Important War**__ World War II Vietnam War American Revolution Cold War Civil War Desert Storm (1989-1990) Iraq War (since 2002) War on Terror (since 2001) World War I Korean War Mexican-American War War of 1812 French & Indian War Spanish-American War

__**Most Important Person in American History**__ George Washington Abraham Lincoln Andrew Jackson FDR MLK, Jr. Ronald Reagan Bill Gates Thomas Jefferson Edgar Allen Poe Harry Truman Andrew Carnegie George Lucas Spike Lee Thomas Edison Albert Einstein John Adams Walt Disney Michael Jackson Steve Jobs