Final Research Project

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1 Final Research Project This project is a culmination of everything you have learned this year, both skills and content. As this is in lieu of a final exam, I expect you to give me your best work, critical thinking, and analysis. Good luck! Essential Question: According to your historical figure, did the U.S. become the country that it originally set out to be? Overview: select 1 figure that we have discussed from U.S. History to research write 1-2 pages explaining the contributions that this individual made to our country please note: this is a focus on the contributions not a biography on their entire life write a ½-1 page conclusion arguing the following: According to this individual, did the United States become the country that it originally set out to be? Classwide Socratic Seminar debating the previous question: Did the U.S. become the country that it originally set out to be? Checklist: Formatting 1 inch margins, double spaced (standard MLA formatting) point font (Times New Roman, Cambria, Arial, Calibri are all acceptable) Works Cited Page formatted according to MLA formatting (as provided by Ms. Haven) all facts are cited Content/Background Information all content is accurate used at least 3 different resources for information Argument includes all the AXES components cites all sources for examples Basic Requirements 1-2 pages of explaining the contributions that this individual made to our country ½-1 page conclusion arguing the essential question: According to this individual, did the United States become the country that it originally set out to be? 1 figure selected to research/investigate Due Dates: 5/19/2015: Research Figure Selection 5/21/2015: Last day for Research & Works Cited Page in class 5/27/2015: All Writing must be completed 5/28/2015: Socratic Seminar: Did the U.S. become the country it originally set out to be? Extra Credit: come dressed as your historical figure or with props that show who you are

2 List of Possible Research Figures The following is only a small list of possible individuals that we have discussed this school year. You may select any of the following or select another individual who we have discussed in class at some point. The main requirement for your selection is that you select an individual that you are interested in it make researching them for more enjoyable! 1. Abigail Adams ( ) Wife of President John Adams; Remember the Ladies 2. John Adams 1st VP, 2nd President, XYZ affair, lawyer in the Boston Massacre Trial 3. John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, served as the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to A member of multiple political parties over the years, he also served as a diplomat, a Senator, and a member of the House of Representatives. 4. Samuel Adams ( ) Revolutionary leader Sons of Liberty; antifederalist 5. Jane Addams ( ) Cofounder of Hull House; 1931 Nobel Peace Prize 6. Susan B. Anthony ( ) Women s rights leader National Woman Suffrage 7. Benedict Arnold ( ) was a general during the American Revolutionary War who originally fought for the American Continental Army but defected to the British Army 8. John Wilkes Booth was a famous American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C., on April 14, John Brown ( ) Extreme abolitionist; led Pottawotamie Massacre, raid on Harper s Ferry 10. James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States ( ), served immediately prior to the American Civil War. He remains the only President to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor. 11. John C. Calhoun ( ) Vice-President, Senator (S.C.); nullification theory 12. Andrew Carnegie ( ) Carnegie Steel; robber baron ; philanthropist 13. William Clark ( ) Coleader of expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase 14. Jefferson Davis ( ) President of the Confederate States of America 15. Dorothea Dix was a Nineteenth- century Massachusetts socialist reformer who revolutionized mental health reform. Superintendent of U.S. Army nurses in Civil War. 16. Frederick Douglass ( ) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist orator, writer, and statesman 17. Stephen A. Douglas ( ) Illinois Senator; debated Lincoln; popular sovereignty 18. Thomas Edison ( ) Invented incandescent electric light bulb, 1880; phonograph, Henry Ford ( ) Assembly line, standardized parts; affordable automobiles, 1920s 20. Benjamin Franklin ( ) Enlightenment thinker; Revolutionary leader; printer 21. Alexander Hamilton ( ) Author of the Federalist Papers; first secretary of the treasury 22. Patrick Henry was a Leader in the American Revolution in Virginia. As a member of Virginia House of Burgesses, introduced resolutions opposing the Stamp Act. Member of Continental Congress; supporter of independence. Opposed Constitution because of belief that it gave too much power to the federal government. Led movement for addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. 23. Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837, seeking to act as the direct representative of the common man; Indian Removal Act, Nullification Crisis, Bank Crisis 24. Thomas Jefferson spokesman for democracy, was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States ( ) 25. Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States ( ) after Lincoln was assassinated, an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views; Reconstruction Era

3 26. Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States ( ), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. 27. Robert E. Lee ( ) Leading Confederate general, Army of Northern Virginia 28. Meriwether Lewis ( ) Coleader of expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase 29. Abraham Lincoln became the United States' 16th President in 1861, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation that declared forever free those slaves within the Confederacy in James Madison, America's fourth President ( ), made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. In later years, he was referred to as the "Father of the Constitution." 31. Horace Mann ( ) His philosophy towards education helped to establish the basis for the modern United States public school system 32. James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States ( ) and the last President from the Founding Fathers. 33. Samuel F. B. Morse ( ) Invented the telegraph, Morse code, Lucretia Mott ( ) Abolitionist; women s rights leader Seneca Falls Convention 35. Thomas Nast ( ) Political cartoonist against Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall, Thomas Paine ( ) Common Sense (1776); influenced American and French Revolutions 37. William Penn ( ) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 38. Powhatan (c ?) Chief whose tribe befriended, warred with Jamestown settlers 39. Hiram Revels ( ) First African American in U.S. Senate, during Reconstruction 40. Sacajawea (c c. 1812) Shoshone woman, guide for Lewis and Clark expedition 41. Santa Anna ( ) President of Mexico and military leader in Mexican-American War H. 42. Dred Scott ( ) Scott was a United States slave who unsucessfully petitioned the supreme court for his freedom when he and his master moved from a slave state to a free state. 43. Roger Sherman ( ) Constitutional Convention proposed Great Compromise 44. Sitting Bull ( ) Sioux leader; defeated Custer at Little Bighorn; killed at Wounded Knee 45. Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( ) Women s rights leader Seneca Falls Convention 46. Thaddeus Stevens ( ) Radical Republican leader of Congressional Reconstruction 47. Harriet Beecher Stowe ( ) Wrote Uncle Tom s Cabin, Tecumseh was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of Sojourner Truth (?-1883) African-American abolitionist & women's rights activist; Ain t I a Woman 50. Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. 51. Cornelius Vanderbilt ( ), also known by the sobriquet Commodore, was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. 52. Brigham Young ( ) was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in George Washington first President of the United States and General during the Revolutionary War 54. Martha Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. 55. Daniel Webster ( ) Senator from Massachusetts; noted orator; against nullification

4 Research Figure: Research URL / Website: Copy and Paste it, then we will make a Works Cited Page later Facts/Information: Focus on contributions to U.S. fact

5 Works Cited Page Instructions Citing an Entire Webpage: Editor, author, or compiler name (if available). Name of Site. Version number. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sponsor or publisher), date of resource creation (if available). Medium of publication. Date of access. Shortened URL. Samples: The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, Web. 23 Apr Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov Web. 10 May