Civics/Government Project

Individually or with a partner.

Choose a topic from the list below. Create a slideshow that addresses the who/ what/ when/ where/ why/ and how of each topic.

    Bill of Rights

First Amendment     [Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition (1791)

Second Amendment [Right to Bear Arms (1791)]

    Third Amendment    [Quartering of Troops (1791)]

    Fourth Amendment  [Search and Seizure (1791)]

Fifth Amendment     [Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Due Process (1791)]

Sixth Amendment    [Criminal Prosecutions - Jury Trial, Right to Confront and to Counsel (1791)]  

    Seventh Amendment[Common Law Suits - Jury Trial (1791)]  

Eighth Amendment  [Excess Bail or Fines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment (1791)]  

Ninth Amendment   [Non-Enumerated Rights (1791)]  

Tenth Amendment   [Rights Reserved to States (1791)] 

OR.....

1. Emancipation Proclamation

2. Arizona’s founders

3. Checks & Balances in U.S. Government

4. Dred Scott decision

5. Plessy v. Ferguson

6. Scopes Trial

7. Women’s Suffrage movement

8. Temperance movement

9. Amendments 13-15 (Civil Rights)

10. Jim Crow Laws

11. Dictatorships

12. Taxation

13. Imperialism

14. Immigration

15. Trust Busting

16. Labor Unions

17. Rural to Urban Migration

18. Natural Resources

19. Globalization

20. Child Labor

21. Robber Barons

22. Prohibition

23. U.S. Transportation