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**Buck v Bell**

Katie Van Winkle Carrie Buck Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7 Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:**Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.**
 * Support the ideas in each paragraph with evidence from a minimum of three  credible sources.
 * Select only signed  sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited.
 * Insert the Works Cited after the Third Task.
 * Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points

 Carrie Buck was a young woman who was "Feeble minded" and according to a Virginia law, had to be sterilized to prevent future "feeble minded" children. She, after giving birth to an illegitimate child (who was presumed to be feeble minded as well), was sterilized and institutionalized against her will. The state of Virginia argued that she was sterilized to prevent future feeble minded children and this overruled her personal liberty. Since Carrie Bucks mother was presumably feeble minded as well, the court ruled that, "t he state was furthering its interest in preventing crime and in limiting the number of people who would become a drain on the public funds. "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," Holmes wrote.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Carrie Buck was declared feeble minded after she claimed to have been raped and impregnated by a man whose family she had been living and working for since her widowed mother sent her to live with them at the age of three. The family had their doctor and a second doctor declare Carrie feeble minded and a court justice issued an order to have her institutionalized. Carrie Buck was ordered to be sterilized in 1925 according to the Virginian law that was passed in 1924. This case went to the supreme court on the arguement that the Virginian law was against the 14th amendment. She argued that, "worst kind of tyranny" if it set no "limits of the power of the state (which, in the end, is nothing more than the faction in control of the government) to rid itself of those citizens deemed undesirable."

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> The law was upheld in court. The vote ended up being an 8-1 decision and J ustice Oliver Wendell Holmes argued, "the public welfare may call upon the best citizens for their lives…[i]t would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices." This ruling made more states follow Virginia's example and pass sterilization laws of their own. This resulted in the sterilization of more than 50,000 women

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Shultz, David. "Buck v Bell." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. 2005. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"> American Women's History Online  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">. Web.6Feb.2012<http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/LowerFrame.aspiPin=ESC0065&InputText=Buck+v+Bell&SearchStyle=Keyword&dTitle=%3Ci%3EBuck+v%2E+Bell%3C%2Fi%3E&iRecordType=&TabRecordType=AllRecords&TribeName=&TribeCodeSearch=&dCultureArea=&AllCountPass=34&SubBioCountPass=17&BioCountPass=11&SubCountPass=6&DocCountPass=16&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&RecPosition=1>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. "Buck v. Bell." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Encyclopedia of Women's History in ////<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">America //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. 2nd ed. 2000. //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">American Women's History Online //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. Web. 6 Feb. 2012<http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/LowerFrame.aspiPin=AWHD0034&InputText=Buck+v+Bell&SearchStyle=Keyword&dTitle=%3C i%3EBuck+v%2E+Bell%3C%2Fi%3E&iRecordType=&TabRecordType=AllRecords&TribeName=&TribeCodeSearch=&dCultureArea=&AllCountPass=34&SubBioCountPass=17&BioCountPass=11&SubCountPass=6&DocCountPass=16&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&RecPosition=2>.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Case <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-center;">274 U.S. 200

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">__Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century. When Carrie Buck lost the case, it seemed to open a flood gate and it set a president for other doctors, over 50,000 women in thirty different states and, once Hitler formed Nazi Germany, over 2 million women were sterilized in the countries he took over. All of these laws were based off of the original Virginia law. These laws in the united states weren't repealed until the Roe vs. Wade case in 1973.

This took away women's right to choose and gave men that power, at the time a mans opinion still over powered woman's.This was a alternative to contraception in the eyes of the men of the 20s. It did not take much to declare a woman feeble-minded once you, "got enough money behind you". Carrie Buck's sterilization was the first of many to take place through out the course of this law.

Shultz, David. "Buck v Bell." Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court. 2005. American Women's History Online. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. <http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/LowerFrame.aspiPin=ESC0065&InputText=Buck+v+Bell&SearchStyle=Keyword&dTitle=%3Ci%3EBuck+v%2E+Bell%3C%2Fi%3E&iRecordType=&TabRecordType=AllRecords&TribeName=&TribeCodeSearch=&dCultureArea=&AllCountPass=34&SubBioCountPass=17&BioCountPass=11&SubCountPass=6&DocCountPass=16&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&RecPosition=1>.

Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn. "Buck v. Bell." Encyclopedia of Women's History in America. 2nd ed. 2000. American Women's History Online. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. <http://www.fofweb.com/NuHistory/LowerFrame.aspiPin=AWHD0034&InputText=Buck+v+Bell&SearchStyle=Keyword&dTitle=%3Ci%3EBuck+v%2E+Bell%3C%2Fi%3E&iRecordType=&TabRecordType=AllRecords&TribeName=&TribeCodeSearch=&dCultureArea=&AllCountPass=34&SubBioCountPass=17&BioCountPass=11&SubCountPass=6&DocCountPass=16&ImgCountPass=0&MapCountPass=0&RecPosition=2>.

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources. After Carrie Buck's forced sterilization and <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">institutionalization then her lost court case, many other women's stories have ended the same way. Thi idea of 'eugenics' which is the " <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population, especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits(negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics) ". This belief gave men power over women in a way that they should have had power.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was one of the first things that lead to the woman's rights movements that came about later in the 1900s. I would classify Carrie Buck as an 'eventful hero' because even though she stood up and fought for her rights it wouldn't have happened if she was not placed in that situation. She was an easily forgotten person who would always be known as a feeble minded woman who was the daughter of a feeble minded woman and the mother of a illegitimate daughter who was also supposedly feeble minded. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Dictionary.com Llc. "Eugenics Com." //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Dictionary.com //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">. Dictionary.com Llc. Web. 17 Feb. 2012. <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/eugenics>.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">"eugenics." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">American History //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> 2012. Web. 17 Feb. 2012.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">" //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">Buck v. Bell //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> (1927)." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">American History //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> 2012. Web. 17 Feb. 2012.

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<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Rubric for all three tasks: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Accurate power paragraph format with each paragraph citing evidence from three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> ✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement, internal citations, Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement  <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> ✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum;  <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> ✓ Complete the criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement.