Due: January 1st/2

Early American History Board Game Project—100 points (11% of grade)

Due: January 1^st/2^nd



Purpose: Create a board game so you can study for your final exam (EOC).

Materials Needed: poster board, index cards, and colored pencils/markers

Optional Materials: dice, construction paper, game pieces, etc.

Sign Up For Online Textbook:

Textbook: History Alive! U.S. History—http://student.teachtci.com/student/sign_up

Email Address: [e-mail]

Example Pictures: For example pictures, go to our class website http://www.pcsb.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=11818

Steps for Success:

You can complete your project by yourself or with a partner. The time period is early American history, approximately from the 1600s to the 1870s.

1.) Create game concept. Are you going to use dice or draw cards to move throughout your game board? Are you going to have obstacles in the way? Is it going to be a Chutes & Ladders-style game, Candyland-style game, or Monopoly-style game, etc.? How are you going to incorporate your questions/answers into the game?

2.) On your index cards, write 45 questions/answers using the topics on the next pages. Use a question word at least 4 times. Questions words are what, when, where, who/whom, why, and how. Number your question/answer cards as you go. Spend most of your time on this.

3.) Create/find game pieces. You can use checkers, game chips, thimbles, army men, pieces of construction paper, etc.

4.) Create board. Design your board and game pieces. Title your board. Draw your path/game board.

5.) Decorate your game board with historical people, events, quotes, pictures, political cartoons. Remember the time period that we study is early American history. (Approximately from the 1600s to the 1870s)

Question Topics

1.) Regional economic differences of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.

2.) Mayflower Compact

3.) Impact of the Columbian Exchange

4.) European motivations for African slavery

5.) Proclamation of 1763

6.) Quartering Act,

7.) Tea Act

8.) Stamp Act

9.) Colonial propaganda

10.) Benjamin Franklin’s political cartoon

11.) Lexington and Concord

12.) Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence

13.) Main principles of the Declaration of Independence

14.) “These are the times that try men’s souls; the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”—Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

15.) Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention

16.) New Jersey Plan/Virginia Plan of the Constitutional Convention

17.) Washington’s Farewell Address

18.) Louisiana Purchase

19.) Founding of St. Augustine and Spanish colonization

20.) Trail of Tears

21.) Arguments for and against war with Mexico

22.) Manifest Destiny

23.) Missouri Compromise

24.) Lewis and Clark

25.) Impact of American settlers on western resources, Native Americans, and slaves

26.) Telegraph, steel plow, steamboat, spinning mill, steam-powered locomotive, cotton gin

27.) Impact of textile mills on society

28.) Frederick Douglass and the Abolition Movement

29.) Women’s Rights Movement

30.) Eli Whitney’s cotton gin

31.) Slave trade

32.) Spirituals and slave resistance

33.) Underground Railroad

34.) Compare Declaration of Sentiments and the Declaration of Independence

35.) Andrew Jackson, the “Common Man”

36.) Andrew Jackson, the “King”

37.) Seminole Wars and the Treaty of Moultrie Creek

38.) Dred Scott decision

39.) Election of 1860

40.) Abraham Lincoln’s Inaugural Address

41.) Strength/Weaknesses of the North/South during the Civil War

42.) Emancipation Proclamation

43.) Balance of power of statehood—slave states vs. free states

44.) Jim Crow laws

45.) African-American suffrage (voting rights)

Early American History Board Game Project

Grading Rubric

Requirement:	Excellent	Above Average	Average	Below Average	Failing
Adherence to Theme—Early American History	Adherence to theme is fully evident. 4 points		Adherence to theme may be evident. 2 points		Adherence to theme is not evident. 0 points
Title	Title is neat, clear, capitalized, and visible. 2 points		Title is not neat, capitalized, and visible. 1 point		No title. 0 points
Question/Answer Accuracy	All question/answer cards are accurate. 10 points	1-2 cards are not accurate. 8 points	3-4 cards are not accurate. 6 points	5+ cards are not accurate. 5 points or less	No cards. 0 points
Use of All Question Words Four Times or More	Use of all question words four times or more. 24 points	1 question word not used. 20 points	2 question words not used. 16 points	3+ question words not used. 12 points or less	No cards 0 points
Use of Question/Answer Topics	All question/answer cards are on topic. 45 points	1-2 cards are not on topic. 43 points	3-4 cards are not on topic. 41 points	5+ cards are not on topic. 40 points or less	No cards. 0 points
Grammar, Spelling and Capitalization	Used correct grammar, spelling, and capitalization. 10 points	1-2 grammar, spelling, and capitalization errors. 8 points	3-4 grammar, spelling, and capitalization errors. 6 points	5+ grammar, spelling, and capitalization errors. 5 points or less	No evidence of correct grammar, spelling, and capitalization. 0 points
Visual Presentation of Game Board	Visual presentation is neat, organized and visually appealing. 5 points		Visual presentation is not one of these—neat, organized, or visually appealing. 3 points		No evidence of visual presentation. 0 points