Civil War Power Point Presentations
For your final project in history, you and a partner will be making and presenting a Power
Point Presentation on an attribute of the Civil War. You will be working in class on the
research for your report, and will be expected to present to your class prior to the final
exam on 5/30. This will be recorded as homework grades for this unit – No ISN!
Tasks
Points
With your partner pick your top three topics from the back of this
page, write them on an index card, and hand them in to me for
approval. I will select one and hand your topic back to you.
Begin researching your topic. You may print out sources from the
Internet or copied from a book and highlight important information
to turn in instead of written notes. You will need to hand your
notes (handwritten or highlighted) to me before you start your
Power Point Presentation.
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Write a detailed outline of your presentation including headings.
Include a correctly formatted bibliography of all of your sources.
Transfer your outline to a Power Point presentation. Include
images and all of the required elements as outlined on your Power
Point guidelines.
Write five test questions based on your presentation. They could
be multiple choice, short answer, analysis of a map or timeline, etc.
Present your project to the class as an oral presentation of 5-7
minutes. You will be graded on the oral presentation rubric.
Due
Date
5/12
5/16
5/16
50
5/23
100
50
18
5/23
5/27 &
5/28
Topics for Civil War Power Point Projects
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Middle Passage
Indentured Servants
Jobs of Slaves
Resistance to Slavery
Slave Rebellions
Political Compromises
Abolition Movement
Life on Plantations
Free Blacks
Runaways
John Brown
Underground Railroad
Black Codes
Josiah Henson
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Jacobs
Henry “Box” Brown
Olaudah Equiano
Economic Causes
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Confederate States of
America
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
General Sherman
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Stonewall Jackson
Jeb Stuart
George Meade
Legality of secession
Liberian Colony
Battle Campaigns
Prisons
Types of weaponry
Life as Johnny Reb
Life as Billy Yank
Myths of the Civil War
Spies during the Civil War
Navy during the Civil War
Blacks during the Civil War
Women during Civil War
Homefront
Reasons North won
Reconstruction
Slave Codes
Freedmen’s Bureau
13th, 14th, 15th
Amendments
Civil Rights Acts
Life after the Civil War
Andrew Johnson
Any other topics MUST BE
APPROVED BY ME!!!!
Suggested Websites
The American Civil War (http://www.us-civilwar.com/)
The Civil War at the Smithsonian (http://civilwar.si.edu/home.html)
Civil War Treasures (from the New York Historical Society)
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html)
African American Perspectives
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project,
1936-1938
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/secession/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/
http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale Center for
International and Area Studies
Abolitionism, 1830-1850, University of Virginia
Abolition, Anti-Slavery Movements, and the Rise of the Sectional Controversy, Library of
Congress
Abolitionism, Africans in America, PBS
The African-American Mosaic, Library of Congress
The Underground Railroad, National Geographic
Underground Railroad, The Time of the Lincolns, PBS
Follow the Drinking Gourd, NASA Quest
The Vesey Conspiracy, Africans in America, PBS
Nat Turner's Rebellion, Africans in America, PBS
The Amistad Case, National Portrait Gallery
John Brown's Holy War, American Experience, PBS
John Brown and the Valley of the Shadow, University of Virginia
Images of African Americans in the 19th Century, Digital Schomburg
Massachusetts Dageurreotypes, Daguerreian Society. Includes Faneuil Hall, John Brown,
Jonathan Walker's branded hand, and nurse and child.
The Face of American Slavery, Museum of American Photography
Uncle Tom's Cabin & American Culture, University of Virginia
The Antislavery Press and the American Civil War, R.J.M. Blackett