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Appendix A

Final Project Overview and Timeline

Final Project Overview

For your HIS 125 final project, create a presentation evaluating the effects of various events on
U.S. history. From the list below, choose five political, social, or economic events or changes that
occurred between 1865 and 1945:

1. The Fourteenth Amendment

2. Western expansion
3. Railroads
4. City life and city culture
5. The political machine
6. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
7. Progressivism
8. World War I
9. Pearl Harbor
10. World War II

Select two additional events or changes occurring between 1865 and 1945 that you consider
significant. Your selections should be political, social, or economic in nature and not in the list
provided above.

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Create a 12- to 15-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint presentation addressing the following points of
the seven selections you chose:

• Describe your selections and explain their significance at the time they occurred.
• Explain how your seven selections shaped current society. How might our society be
different without those events, advances, or changes?

Include detailed speaker’s notes on each slide and a reference slide in your presentation. Cite at
least five sources to support your presentation. The presentation, including citations and
references, must follow APA formatting guidelines.

There are no stipulations on how you format your presentation. Be creative with fonts, styles,
images, and formatting. Be sure, however, that your presentation maintains a logical flow, is easy
to follow, and that the formatting and style do not take away from the content. Limit your text on
each slide to approximately five lines per slide and approximately five words per bulleted item.
You may include images in your presentation if you would like, although, they are not required.

Final Project Timeline

Budget your time wisely and work on your project throughout the course. As outlined below, some
assignments in the course are designed to assist you in creating your final project. If you
complete your course activities and use the feedback provided by the instructor, you will be on
the right track to successfully complete your project.

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  Suggested in Week One: Take notes on the significance of the Fourteenth Amendment
and how the Amendment shapes current society. These notes guide you in choosing the
significant events or changes included in your presentation.

People born or naturalized in the United States are considered citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside. They are given the right to vote at any
election for the President or election for any If they are 21 years of age or older and a non
taxed Indian.

The fourteenth amendment was where the slaves were given more rights.

 Suggested in Week Two: Take notes as you read and assess the social and economic
impact of westward expansion. These notes guide you in choosing the significant events or
changes included in your presentation.

 Suggested in Week Three: While completing your CheckPoint for Week Three, take
notes and consider how the railroad shaped our current society. Consider how our society
might be different without the growth that the railroad brought to the country in the late 19th
century. These notes guide you in choosing the significant events or changes included in your
presentation.

 Suggested in Week Four: Week Four presents content on the political machines and city
life and culture. Take notes on these factors and consider their past and current significance.
These notes guide you in choosing the significant events or changes included in your
presentation.

 Suggested in Week Six: Week Six addresses Wilson’s Fourteen Points, Progressivism,
and World War I. Take notes on these events, factors, and changes and consider their past
and current significance. These notes guide you in choosing the significant events or changes
included in your presentation.

 Suggested in Week Seven: Consider some of the other events or changes that you have
learned about thus far that are not included in the list provided above. Select two events or
changes that are not on the list above to include in your presentation. Take notes on those
two selections, describing why they are significant and how they shape current society.

 Suggested in Week Eight: Using the notes you have taken in previous weeks and the
information on Pearl Harbor and World War II from the Week Eight discussion, select seven
events or changes to include in your presentation. Creating an outline for your presentation
may help you complete of you final project successfully.

 Due in Week Nine: Submit your final project.

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