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Project: The Road to Civil War

AP United States History

Project Overview: Each individual will create an illustrated and annotated timeline.

Project Specifications:

• Each individual must complete the chart entitled

“Events Leading to the Civil War.”

• Illustrated and Annotated Timeline:

o ANNOTATIONS: Each event should be accompanied by a brief summary of the event and an explanation of its significance. Refer back to your graphic organizer for this.

o The Illustrated timeline should include some sort of graphic (such as a map, photo, political cartoon, drawing, painting, etc.) and a quote from a primary source document that illustrates the significance of each event.

• Rank the Events: “Top 9 Causes of the Civil War”

Each timeline should provide some system for ranking the events in the order of their importance. You need to provide explanation for your ranking. This should be written. This is completely your opinion and analysis.

• Timelines should demonstrate creativity and should be neat and aesthetically pleasing.

• Works Cited-Please provide an accurate MLA works cited page for the sources you use. Your images and direct quotes must be cited. You can use online citation makers.

Resources:

• You need not access to the internet to complete this project. Your textbook can provide all of the information needed, however you might find that internet access might make this project more user friendly.

• The following web sites contain large collections of primary sources and pictures.

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RECOMMENDATIONS for ease of project…

• I suggest you start by watching the or Crash Course videos

• Read chapters 12-13 in By the People

• Complete the timeline, find images, write annotations

• Work on your works cited page as you find images for your timeline

• Write your Top 9 Causes for the Civil War-rankings with explanations

LIST:

Missouri Compromise

Mexican American War

Wilmot Proviso

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Law

Uncle Toms Cabin

Kansas Nebraska Act (Popular Sovereignty)

“Bleeding Kansas” (Charles Sumner Attacked)

LeCompton Constitution

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry

Election of 1860

South Carolina secedes from the Union

Crittenden Compromise

Attack on Ft. Sumter.

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