Tag: Social Studies

Kate Sheppard

Kate is recognised around the world for her actions as the leader to fight for women’s rights in New Zealand, being the first ever country for New Zealand women to vote. Her and other pioneering women campaigned so effectively that in 1893 to grant all women over 21 to have a say. (vote) 

The early life

Catherine Wilson Malcolm was born in Liverpool, in England on March 10th 1847. Her early childhood years were spent in London, Nairn in Scotland, and Dublin. Her strong religious education and her adherence to religious principle and Christian socialism is attributed to the influence of an uncle, who was minister of the Free Church of Scotland in Nairn. 

Later on in 1862, Kate’s father had passed away and in 1868 her mother brought Katherine and her two other brothers and a sister as saloon passengers to New Zealand. They arrived on the Matoaka at Lyttelton in February 1869. The family settled in Christchurch, where Katherine’s sister, Marie Beath, was living. 

During the early years of her marriage with husband Walter Allen Sheppard. Their only son, Douglas, was born in Christchurch, October 1880. She was an active member of the Trinity Congregational Church, giving her time to church visiting, Bible classes and fund-raising.

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In 1885 Mary Leavitt, an evangelist from the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of the United States of America, commenced her mission in New Zealand and Kate Sheppard became a founding member of the New Zealand Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was soon realized by the union that producing social and legislative reforms concerning temperament and the mental health of women and children would be more effectively open if women had the right to vote and the right to representation in Parliament. In 1887 franchise departments were formed within the local unions and Sheppard was appointed national superintendent of the franchise and legislation department.

This responsively had Kate for coordinating and encouraging the local unions; she prepared pamphlets, writing letters to the press and stimulated a debate within the WCTU, church meetings, and temperance and political societies. Kate had been motivated by humanitarian principles and a strong sense of justice, ‘whether the race, class, sex or creed is inhuman and must be over’. It was a quiet, determined, persuasive feminine voice.  

Kate was accompanied on her speaking engagements by her younger sister, Isabella May, who worked with her as superintendent of the literature department of the WCTU. The franchise department of the WCTU took the first of three major petitions to Parliament in 1891. The petition was presented by Sir John Hall, and strongly supported by Alfred Saunders and the premier, John Ballance  It was signed by more than 9,000 women, and the second in 1892 by more than 19,000.

After the largest petition ever presented to Parliament in 1893 with almost 32,000 signatures, the Electoral Act 1893 was passed on 19 September and Kate Sheppard received a telegram from the premier, Richard Seddon previously her political enemy in the House, conceding victory to the women. The governor, Lord Glasgow, honored Kate Sheppard as a political leader, by symbolically presenting to her the pen with which the bill granting womanhood suffrage had been signed.

 

New Zealand had been the first ever country in which all women had the right to vote.. 

D – Day

Who

  • Men from all over: America, Britain, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and many more.
  • The leaders of the most powerful nations: (US, USSR, British empire, and Canada) Pressed the allies to open up a second front to the War by invading France.

What 

  • The western powers would open up a second front by invading France in May 1944. 
  • Plans were drawn up. But they have never made these decisions before, so they would have to make new inventions, technology and more. 
  • They had to wait till June because of all the ships coming in from England and more landing crafts, needing time to roll off the factory lines. 
  • After discussion, the day June 4th, 1944 arrives. Planes had been prepped, final drills runned through. Tens of thousands of men board ships for the invasion, suddenly the rain starts to roll in. As well as a storm. Waves crash which sweeps the channel, clouds block the sky. The high winds buffet craft ventures on sea, land and especially air.
  • Dwight Eisenhower is forced to make the choice to make the attack delayed.
  • A group of allied councils imply that if they make another delay they won’t be able to launch again, till July.

Where

  • There were two possible targets: Calais, the closest point into England. Or Normandy, the farthest on the channel coast. Calais was the sensible place to land but they had notable disadvantages. After a debate with Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery, they had agreed to have an element of surprise with the possibility of being able to rush off the beaches. So the decision was made, Normandy it was. 

Why

  •  It was the start of a campaign to liberate Europe and defeat Germany. For years, Joseph Stalin (leader of USSR) , whose nation was completely destroyed by the Nazi invasion (WWII) bearing the brunt of the human cost of the war against Germany, had pressed the allies to open the second front to the war by invading France. 

How  

  • Plans were drawn up. An amphibious operation of this size had never been tried. Men and material would have to be drawn back from around the world, new technologies would have to be invented, engineering feats earlier only discussed in conference rooms, would have to be put to the test under wartime conditions.

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Te Whiti-O-Rongomai & Tohu Kakahi

Te Whiti-O-Rongomai 

Te Whiti-O-Rongomai was born around the 19th century in 1830, born in Taranaki. Te Whiti-O-Rongomai III was a Maori Spiritual leader and founder of the village Parihaka, which were in New Zealand Taranaki region. As a child, Te Whiti was well educated by Maori elders, who taught him about the tradition of his culture. 

Te Whiti established the Parihaka community as a place Sanctuary and peace for Maori. Many of whom seeking refuge as their land was confiscated in the early 1860s. Parihaka became a place of peaceful resistance to the encroaching confiscations.

Te Whiti protested against the confiscations and the loss of all lands. He objected particularly to occupation of confiscated land which had long been left unoccupied by settlers and was believed to have been returned through the quiescence of the native minister, Donald McLean.

Tohu Kakahi

Tohu Kākahi was a Māori leader, a warrior leader in the anti government Hau Hau Movement 1864-66 and later a prophet at Parihaka, who along with Te Whiti o Rongomai organised passive resistance against the occupation of Taranaki in the 1870s in New Zealand. Details of Tohu’s early life are unclear.

Tohu Kākahi, whose historical importance has often been ignored, was responsible along with Te Whiti-o-Rongomai III for making the village of Parihaka in Taranaki a symbol of pacifist protest against government land acquisitions.

SOS – term 1

Hello readers,

Hope you all are having a good start of the year. This week in Social Studies we our looking at significant events around the world. We had to do this on maps and pin down 5 points of any events that happened around the world, mine was are pretty well know that you all should know. Here is the link for my points!

Significant events

Thank you all for reading my post! Hope you all found this intresting and something new to learn. Is there any big events I missed, if so let me know in the comments. Have and amazing day bye!!

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Birmingham Campaign Storyboard

Background

Birmingham, Alabama was founded in 1871 at the crossing of two rail lines near one of the world’s richest deposits of minerals. Alabama’s most populous county. In 2022, Birmingham had a population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50-most populous in the United States. From its founding through the end of the 1960s Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the South. The pace of Birmingham growth during the period from 1881 through 1920 earned its nicknames The Magic City and The Pittsburgh of the South.

Why?

The Birmingham campaign, also known as the Birmingham movement or Birmingham confrontation, was an American movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.  They did it to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.

Phase 1

Martin Luther King got arrested on April 12th along with the other leaders that marched with them. Then on April 20th Martin got released to find out that the movement (march) was losing its steam, and they needed to get more people marching.

On August 28th, 1963, more than a quarter million people participated in the historic march on Washington  for jobs and freedom, gathering near the Lincoln memorial. 

Phase 2

On May 2nd Over 1000 young people march into the city center. 959 arrested on Connor’s orders, they were between the ages of 6 to 18. On May 3rd more than 2500 turned out to march. There was a mixture of adults and children. Connor ordered firemen to turn their high pressure hoses on the protesters. Protesters were injured as the water pushed them into the ground, crashing them into buildings and each other. Police dogs were also being used for biting the marchers.

Results of the Campaign

White and coloured signs removed from bathrooms and water fountains.

Lunch counters open to both races andwhites began to hire black workers. Libraries, schools and public buildings eventually desegregated Showed the black community that nonviolent methods worked, even in the face of violence Paved the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

What happened next?

The images of protesters being attacked were shown throughout the USA. President Kennedy said that it made him “sick” watching children being attacked with dogs and hoses. In Birmingham the marches continued with many more people getting involved, Connor continued to use hoses and dogs on protesters. Demonstrations continued until 10 May while business owners create a settlement with the civil rights leaders about desegregating.

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Martin Luther King

 

 

Murder and Mayhem

 

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This essay is based on the bloody code, it’s about crimes that have been made but also got big punishments for such as if someone had been murded, shot the person that did the crime may be put to the death row or have a pill to get put to sleep then slowly die. But if someone steals the person would either get hung in public or a body part chopped off. It really just depends on what the person stole and how bad the crime was.

The origins of the bloody code date back to the regin of King Henry VII, where a number of crimes were a punishment by any death. However, during the 18th century when the bloody code became used more the goverment sought to increase social order and put people off the thought of crimes. Since you most definltely don’t want a limb chopped off!

Many of these crimes were seen as against property, there for justifying the harsh punishment. The code also introuduced transportation so the people who did a crime were sent off into boats and ferrys and got to colonies such as Australia and America. Just like some of the first bits we talked about, it was not uncommon for the punishment to be carried out in a public execution, such like: Hanging, drawing and quartering. This was done in public places and often attract the large crowds so they knew not to do crimes.

 

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6/30/23

Hello readers, how has your day been?

This last week in Social Studies our hurumanu have been learning about Jack the Ripper real name Aaron Kosminski. He was a unidentified serial killer, it started back in the 1800’s. Some of his nicknames are Leather Apron and The WhiteChapel Murderer.

I think something I did well was the researching and finding all the good infomation throughout sos. Whilst something I think I could do better with is to much conversation. I have made a crimical profile for him on canva, hope you all like it.

Was there anything else you have found intresting or new you foundabout this? If so please leave a comment, have a nice rest of your day!

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20.7.23

Under this topic this semester in murder and mayhem, we were looking into why was New Zealand so Significant for world war one. Our teacher set us some questions and researching into this subject. Without anymore explaining here is my answers.

World War one

For four years, from 1914 to 1918, World War I began across Europe’s western and eastern fronts after growing stress and then the assassination of Archduke Frans Ferdinand of Austria starting the war unfortunately. In October 1914 the group of 8,454 soldiers left New Zealand for the other side of the world. 

The war marked central powers, mostly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey against the Allies, mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States.

New Zealand was a part  of the British Empire, and when Britain declared war on germany. In August 1914 , that meant New Zealand was at war too.

Why was WWI significant to New Zealand? 

The first world war was one of the most significant events of the 20th century’s  and had a quaky impact on New Zealand society. 10 percent of the population was 1.1 million set out overseas, of which more than 18,000 died. There were also over 40,000 hospitalisations required for injury or illness. There was also an impact on families. 

The loss for New was really big. 5% of the military men of its military guys died and many were wounded. New Zealanders were proud of their country’s part in the war, and a sense of national identity had increased. 

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Bonjour readers,

Hope you all are doing well, this week into murder and mayhem we our researching into a new topic called: War in Gallipoi. For one of these activitys we had to do was select one of the muesum giants from Te Papa and make a poster about them. With answering some questions about who they were before the war, during the war, after the war, etc. I have created my poster on canva about Jack Dunn. Please be free to write some questions down that I haven’t made my point in. Here is my link onto the poster!

Gallipoi Poster

It was a crazy time back then and hope that our planet present time make better choices. What did you guys think about my poster? Did it have some intresting infomation? Thank you readers for looking into my blog once again, stay safe and have a good day. Bye for now!

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Hello readers,

The past few days in social studies we have been researching about the Gallipoli campaign. This slide I have done is for our report job and I think I did a pretty good job, here it is!

 

Did you all find something intresting in there? If you did please write a comment down. Thank you all for reading todays murder and mayhem, bye!

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