US History - Cereal Box That Have Changed American History ...



My Cereal Box Project that Changed US HistoryAssigned Tuesday March 7, 2017 – Due March 27, 2017Students will be re-designing a cereal box to honor a person/event from American history that has created CHANGE. The person, reform movement, or event may be chosen from the list below. Each individual or event can only be used a maximum of 2 times per class. Step 1: The student will select a person, event or movement that created change for America Step 2: The student will conduct research on this person, event or movement using class notes, internet and print resources. Individuals must use at least 4 different sources and must cite those sources. Step 3: Students will re-design a cereal box to honor that person, event or movement using the following guidelines:The cereal box that you re-design should be creative and covered with paper The front of the box should include the name of the cereal – a creative name that somehow relates to your topic. It should include an appropriately-sized picture of person, technological invention, or movement as well. This can be printed from an online source, photocopied, or hand-drawn. It might also include other slogans, catch-phrases, or other comments that relate to your figure. (For example, one dealing with FDR might say “now available in two flavors – First and Second New Deal” – or one on Woodrow Wilson might say “now includes 14 essential vitamins and minerals” in reference to the 14 Points.)The back of the box should include the most detailed information about your figure. Basically, you are writing a historical essay on your person, event, technological invention, or movement. The essay should include the following components: Describe the conditions that prompted the reform to take action.Discuss the efforts of the reformer to improve these conditions (including reference to their major works)Describe a change in the United States that resulted from the efforts of the reformer and his or her followers.?******The back may include some small pictures, but should mostly be a two-column historical/biographical essay, written in a 12 point font, single spaced and fully-justified.******One side panel should include at least one interesting quote from your person, event, or movement and a brief contextual background as to when and why the particular quote was given, or to what event the quote refers. One side panel should include some random trivial facts about your person, event, or movement – important relatives, funny facts, strange facts about the person’s death, interesting information about a political campaign, etc. The box top should include some kind of reference to the most significant event in your person, technological invention, or movement. (The thing that made your person, event, or movement significant). This reference could be in the form or a slogan or other brief statement – but it should be brief. It is to be used as a “grabber” to make your reader interested in reading the historical essay on the back of your box. The box bottom should include your name, your class period, and should also list any and all sources that you used during your research. Each student will give a 3-5 minute presentation on their subject and will share why they selected that particular individual. List of Reformers/Events/Projects for My Cereal Box that Changed HistoryIda TarbellLincoln SteffensUpton SinclairJacob RiisJane AddamsMarcus GarveyWEB DuBois Booker T. WashingtonSpanish American WarWorld War IJ. Edgar HooverRed Scare/Espionage Act of 1917/Sedition Act/Palmer RaidsSacco and VanzettiAl CaponeMargaret SangerBilly SundayAimee McPhersonClarence Darrow/William Jennings Bryan/Scopes Monkey TrialIda B. WellsBlack Tuesday/Great Depression of 1929Eleanor RooseveltCharlie ChaplinHarlem RenaissanceLangston HughesGeorgia O’KeefeTheodore DreiserThe Gospel of WealthThe Social GospelManifest DestinyThe Gilded AgeSocial Darwinism/Naturalism/IndividualismWilmington Race RiotPlessy vs. FergusonJim Crow Laws Henry FordCharles LindberghAmelia EarhartArchduke Franz FerdinandWomen’s Suffrageker57150-7353300053340002476500-7670802413000046355The 1st Annual Progressive Awards00The 1st Annual Progressive AwardsAn awards show to celebrate how the United States dealt with the most significant problems facing the United States as we began the 20th Century?Intro: The rapid growth of the United States during the second half of the 19th century, and the problems that accompanied this development, resulted in a period of transition and reform. Goal: For the student to be able to recognize and understand the need to reexamine domestic goals and priorities.“A government strong enough to govern the nation and restrained enough not to imperil sacred civil liberties.”The American Republic was founded on the concept of equality. The founders of the nation held it to be a “self-evident truth” that all people are created equal, being endowed with the same basic rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Reform movements were started in various periods as a response to changing social conditions with the belief that the betterment of society was a possibility. Americans believed that in a democracy the people could create a better society through their own efforts.3695700153670Social00Social-220980141605Economic00Economic-37338001079500Judging00Judging1824355107950Attempts to ameliorate the effects of industrialization.00Attempts to ameliorate the effects of industrialization.-2334260136525Efforts to rein in corporate power.00Efforts to rein in corporate power.5179695659130Criteria00Criteria171259593980Political00Political150304588900Efforts to make government cleaner, less corrupt, and more democratic00Efforts to make government cleaner, less corrupt, and more democraticDespite their anxieties about the problems in all three areas, progressives accepted the new modern order. They did not seek to turn back the clock, or to return to a world of smaller businesses and agrarian idealism. Nor, as a general rule, did they aim to dismantle big business. Rather, they wished to regulate industry and mitigate the effects of capitalism on behalf of the public good. To secure the public good, they looked to an expanded role for the government at the local, state, as well as national levels. ................
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