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    The Orphan Train Movement: A Shaky Start To Children's Rights in America

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    The document is a process paper written by Peyton Soethout and Samantha Morrow about their research for a National History Day project on the Orphan Train Movement. They describe narrowing their topic choice to the Orphan Trains after considering other historical events involving rights and responsibilities. They outline their research process, which included using secondary sources from the library and internet as well as primary sources from a documentary and materials collected from an Orphan Train rider. They also interviewed someone whose mother had ridden the orphan trains. The paper explains that they chose to create a website because of their experience with the format from previous National History Day competitions.

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    The document is a process paper written by Peyton Soethout and Samantha Morrow about their research for a National History Day project on the Orphan Train Movement. They describe narrowing their topic choice to the Orphan Trains after considering other historical events involving rights and responsibilities. They outline their research process, which included using secondary sources from the library and internet as well as primary sources from a documentary and materials collected from an Orphan Train rider. They also interviewed someone whose mother had ridden the orphan trains. The paper explains that they chose to create a website because of their experience with the format from previous National History Day competitions.

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    The document is a process paper written by Peyton Soethout and Samantha Morrow about their research for a National History Day project on the Orphan Train Movement. They describe narrowing their topic choice to the Orphan Trains after considering other historical events involving rights and responsibilities. They outline their research process, which included using secondary sources from the library and internet as well as primary sources from a documentary and materials collected from an Orphan Train rider. They also interviewed someone whose mother had ridden the orphan trains. The paper explains that they chose to create a website because of their experience with the format from previous National History Day competitions.

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    The Orphan Train Movement: A Shaky Start To Children's Rights in America

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    The document is a process paper written by Peyton Soethout and Samantha Morrow about their research for a National History Day project on the Orphan Train Movement. They describe narrowing their topic choice to the Orphan Trains after considering other historical events involving rights and responsibilities. They outline their research process, which included using secondary sources from the library and internet as well as primary sources from a documentary and materials collected from an Orphan Train rider. They also interviewed someone whose mother had ridden the orphan trains. The paper explains that they chose to create a website because of their experience with the format from previous National History Day competitions.

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    The Orphan Train Movement: A

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    Process Paper
    Peyton Soethout and Samantha Morrow
    Group Website
    Junior Division
    We made a list of possible topics that we discovered through different sources, involving
    the theme, Rights and Responsibilities. These sources included our families, books, and the
    internet. It was hard to decide on a topic because there were many historically relevant events.
    Our list consisted of the Trail of Tears, Orphan Trains, the History of Adoption, and the Salem
    Witch Trials. We slowly narrowed down our options. We officially decided on the Orphan Train
    Movement. This had specifically appealed to us because we could identify with the children who
    rode the trains. Not that we are orphans ourselves, but we could have easily been put through the
    same situation based on our age.
    We started researching right away. Mrs. Wouters, a teacher at Waukee Middle School,
    has helped children prepare projects for the National History Day Competition for ten years. She
    helped us set goals and deadlines for our research, construction, and presentation. Our schedules
    were hectic, so we had to prioritize. We spent most of the week days researching independently
    and would work together periodically during the weekends. Our secondary resources came from
    the library or the internet. We found most of our primary sources from the documentary
    "American Experience: The Orphan Trains" and we borrowed a portfolio that Mrs. Wouters had
    collected from a descendant of an Orphan Train rider. After we qualified for districts we
    interviewed Mary McClain, because her mom had been a rider of the orphan trains. (The image
    below is a picture of us with Mrs. McClain and, her husband, Mr. McClain; holding her mother's
    dresses.)
    Last year, we both participated in National History Day with website entries. We learned
    about the construction of high quality websites. This year we choose to enter with a website
    because of our experience from last year. We feel websites are a good way to display our
    creativity, while keeping our information organized and interactive.
    It is a right to have children, but it is a responsibility to take care of our children
    (emphases added). When parents were unable to provide for their children during the 1800's;
    the children were then forced to fend for themselves on the streets of New York City. Charles
    Loring Brace felt socially responsible to step up and try to remedy the situation. He founded the
    Childrens Aid Society in 1853, to help the abandoned and orphaned children within the city.
    The Childrens Aid Society eventually created the Orphan Trains, a system, in which trains were
    used to transport orphaned children to new homes in the Midwest. Some children did not find
    good homes. A few children had been treated like slaves; got worked hard, beaten and abused.
    The Orphan Train Movement played a major role in the development of childrens rights in
    America. It was an event in history that forced society into taking responsibility for its childrens
    wellbeing.

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