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) 11-12 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
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 (1744 1818) 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 1829. 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 (1722 1803) Revolutionary leader Sons of Liberty; antifederalist 5. Jane Addams (1860 1935) Cofounder of Hull House; 1931 Nobel Peace Prize 6. Susan B. Anthony (1820 1906) Women s rights leader National Woman Suffrage 7. Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) 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, 1865 9. John Brown (1800 1859) Extreme abolitionist; led Pottawotamie Massacre, raid on Harper s Ferry 10. James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861), 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 (1782 1850) Vice-President, Senator (S.C.); nullification theory 12. Andrew Carnegie (1835 1919) Carnegie Steel; robber baron ; philanthropist 13. William Clark (1770 1838) Coleader of expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase 14. Jefferson Davis (1808 1889) 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 (1818-1895) was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist orator, writer, and statesman 17. Stephen A. Douglas (1813 1861) Illinois Senator; debated Lincoln; popular sovereignty 18. Thomas Edison (1847 1931) Invented incandescent electric light bulb, 1880; phonograph, 1878 19. Henry Ford (1863 1947) Assembly line, standardized parts; affordable automobiles, 1920s 20. Benjamin Franklin (1706 1790) Enlightenment thinker; Revolutionary leader; printer 21. Alexander Hamilton (1755 1804) 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 (1801 1809) 25. Andrew Johnson became the 17th President of the United States (1865-1869) after Lincoln was assassinated, an old-fashioned southern Jacksonian Democrat of pronounced states' rights views; Reconstruction Era
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 (1869 1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery. 27. Robert E. Lee (1807 1870) Leading Confederate general, Army of Northern Virginia 28. Meriwether Lewis (1774 1809) 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 1863. 30. James Madison, America's fourth President (1809-1817), 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 (1796-1859) 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 (1817 1825) and the last President from the Founding Fathers. 33. Samuel F. B. Morse (1791 1872) Invented the telegraph, Morse code, 1837 34. Lucretia Mott (1793 1880) Abolitionist; women s rights leader Seneca Falls Convention 35. Thomas Nast (1840 1902) Political cartoonist against Boss Tweed/Tammany Hall, 1869 1871 36. Thomas Paine (1737 1809) Common Sense (1776); influenced American and French Revolutions 37. William Penn (1644-1718) 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. 1547 1618?) Chief whose tribe befriended, warred with Jamestown settlers 39. Hiram Revels (1827 1901) First African American in U.S. Senate, during Reconstruction 40. Sacajawea (c. 1786 c. 1812) Shoshone woman, guide for Lewis and Clark expedition 41. Santa Anna (1795 1876) President of Mexico and military leader in Mexican-American War H. 42. Dred Scott (1799-1858) 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 (1721 1793) Constitutional Convention proposed Great Compromise 44. Sitting Bull (1831 1890) Sioux leader; defeated Custer at Little Bighorn; killed at Wounded Knee 45. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 1902) Women s rights leader Seneca Falls Convention 46. Thaddeus Stevens (1792 1868) Radical Republican leader of Congressional Reconstruction 47. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 1896) Wrote Uncle Tom s Cabin, 1852 48. 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 1812. 49. 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 (1794-1877), also known by the sobriquet Commodore, was an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. 52. Brigham Young (1801-1877) 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 1877 53. 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 (1782 1852) Senator from Massachusetts; noted orator; against nullification
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
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, 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2008. www.owl.english.purdue.edu Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. Purdue U, 28 Nov. 2003. Web. 10 May 2006. www.purdueupublishings.edu