Final Project Description
Tell the story of the American
Civil War in a facebook format. On the day of your history final, you will have
an opportunity to share your project with classmates and compete for awards
(most historically accurate, funniest, best pop culture references, etc.). Your project must be professional
in appearance (produced electronically).
Content
Your project should demonstrate a deep familiarity with and
understanding of the events, ideas, and people involved in the American Civil
War. This includes events leading up to the
Civil War, the war itself, and the aftermath of the war.
Your project must include the following:
- Slavery’s roots (i.e., Jamestown, Constitutional Convention, Whitney’s cotton gin)
- Roots of state vs. national sovereignty (i.e., Great Compromise in the Constitutional Convention, Kentucky Resolutions, McCulloch v. Maryland, Andrew Jackson’s Nullification Crisis)
- Character(s) from Huckleberry Finn or Mark Twain
- Missouri Compromise
- Compromise of 1850
- Personal liberty laws
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Brooks canes Sumner
- New Political Parties emerge
- Dred Scott
- John Brown
- Election of 1860
- Secession and the creation of the Confederacy
- Fort Sumter
- Anaconda plan
- Bull Run
- McClellan
- Shiloh
- Farragut
- Ironclads
- New weapons (i.e., Minié ball, rifles, long-range artillery, rear-loading firearms)
- Antietam
- The Trent Affair
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Copperheads
- 54th Massachusetts
- Clara Barton
- Wartime governmental actions (i.e., suspension of habeas corpus, conscription, income tax)
- Gettysburg (Killer Angels)
- Vicksburg
- Sherman’s March
- Appomattox
- Economic and human costs of the Civil War
- Thirteenth Amendment
- John Wilkes Booth
In addition to these events, you may include other
events/people you think are significant.
Grading Criteria
Sequential: Posts relating to the events should be
in correct sequence and dates should reflect the chronology.
Accurate: Information presented should be
historically accurate and reflect an understanding of the significance of
events and the people involved.
Complete: All
35 events should be addressed.
Connected: Posts should have comments showing how
various individuals respond to each other and to historical developments.
Clever: Comments and posts should be
fun. Historical figures and even people from pop culture should respond to each
other in witty ways.
Appropriate: Humor
should be appropriate.
Professional: The final product should be produced
electronically. Print a copy to bring to
class the day of the final exam. The
following web application will allow you to recreate the facebook format: http://thewallmachine.com/.
