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Triumph & Tragedy in History National History Day 2019

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Suffrage Movement in Colorado (1870-

1893): After the announcement that Colorado

would hold a referendum vote in 1877 to decide if

women would be granted the right to vote, Susan

B. Anthony, along with Lucy Stone and other

national suffragettes joined Colorado activists like

Margaret W. Campbell to campaign to pass the

referendum. It was defeated, but Colorado would

tr iumph and grant women the right to vote in

1893, nearly three decades before women would

gain the right to vote in federal elections.

Colorado Silver Crash of 1893: Colorado experienced an economic boom with the establishment of the Bland-Allison Act in 1878 and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in1890, both of which requiredthe federal government to purchase Colorado’s plentiful silver reserves. However, in 1893, President Grover Cleveland advocated for therepeal of the Sherman SilverPurchase Act, and thus Colorado was no longer protected from the Coinage Act of 1873, which established gold as the standard. Coloradoexperienced an economictrag edy as silver prices plummeted.

John Leonard “jack ” Swigert, Jr . (193 1-1982) A Colorado Native, Jack Swigert was the command module pilot on the Apollo 13 moon mission. He, along with Jim Lovell and Fred Haise tr iumph ed and returned safely to Earth after the rupture of an oxygen tank compromised their mission. Swigert was later elected to the U.S. Congress as a representative from the 6th district. His statue is one of Colorado’s two in the National Statuary Hall Collection.

Madele ine Albright (1936-) Born into a Jewish

family in Czechoslovakia, Hitler’s rise forced

Albright’s parents to take exile in the United

Kingdom. In 1948, her family moved to Denver

where her father was a professor of political

science at the University of Denver. Albright later

became the U.S. Ambassador to the United

Nations and tr iumph ed to become the first

female Secretary of State under President Bill

Clinton.

Nikola Tesla in Colorado Springs (1899- 1900) Tesla set up a laboratory in Colorado Springs in 1899 to experiment with electricity at high altitudes. He conducted large-scale studies on wireless electricity on enormous coils with free alternating current provided by the El Paso Power Company. His tr iumph s over electricity allowed him to make significant contributions to the design of the modern alternating current and wireless power and communication.

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