Protestors, Dissenters, and Reactionaries- The Year 12 Research Project

The inquiry process is the most important and fundamental tool we use in history. This is the process of planning, collecting, processing, evaluating and reporting information about the past. This process not only helps us find information, but also helps us judge what material is most truthful, important and useful.

 Level 2 students at Tangaroa College are in the process of starting their own research project about a protest movement. Students will choose one of the following protest movements effecting New Zealand. Each word below has a link to help students find out basic information about the protest movements :

Protest Movements

·         Women’s suffrage movement

·         Temperance movement

·         Parihaka

·         Māori King movement

·         Conscientious objection (WW1 and/or WW2)

·         Anti-conscription (WW1 and/or WW2)

·         Springbok Tour protest (1981)

·         Vietnam War protest

·         Protest against nuclear testing in the Pacific

·         Depression riots

·         Rua Kenana separatist movement

·         Bastion Point

·         Māori Land March, 1975

·         Occupation of Moutua Gardens

·         Nuclear-free New Zealand

·         Environmentalism

·         Homosexual law reform

General Sources
The following links are to large data bases that have many primary and secondary sources. Please use them.

• The National Library of New Zealand
• The University of Otago
• The New Zealand and Pacific Collection
• Local History Links
• New Zealand History On-line