American Revolution Research Project
Today you will be creating a PowerPoint presentation. You will be researching two aspects of the American Revolution with your group members. I want you to be as creative as possible with this project, with that said, I will give you some guidance but not much. You will work as a team in creating the PowerPoint, if you do not help your team with the PowerPoint you will receive a zero on this project.
List of researchable topics:
The Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Princeton
The Battle of Camden
The Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Monmouth
The Battle of Long Island
The Battle of Vincennes
The Battle of Eutaw Springs
The Battle of Germantown
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
The Battle of Charleston
The Capture of Savannah
George Washington
Benedict Arnold
Ben Franklin
Horatio Gates
Nathanael Greene
Henry Knox
Marquis de Lafayette
Robert Howe
Charles Cornwallis
William Howe
Henry Clinton
John Burgoyne
Directions:
- Use google drive to create a PowerPoint
- You must have at least five slides for each topic
- Pictures and maps should be used but they don’t count towards the five slides
- There should be no spelling or grammatical errors
- Be detailed but your PowerPoint should only have relevant information
- DO NOT PLAGIARIZE
For the battle, use this list of questions to help you create your PowerPoint. This list is only meant to be a guide:
What is the name of your chosen battle?
Where and when did the battle take place?
Who are the major figures (leaders) in the battle?
What side is each figure fighting for?
Have the flags of each side fighting?
How many casualties were there? For each side.
Were there any important battle strategies used and/or developed that would be notable in your report? If so, what are they? What was the final outcome of the battle? You can use maps to help illustrate this.
Was this battle a significant one in determining the outcome of the war? Please be detailed.
For the person, use this list of questions to help you create your PowerPoint. This list is only meant to be a guide:
Who is the person that you have chosen to research?
What are some of the important accomplishments of this person?
How is this person important to the American Revolution?
What battles were they involved in? How good of a general were they?
What side of the war did they favor and why?
Where there any particular events or actions of this person that are notable and relevant or the Revolution?