Assignment: pick from the following one assignments that interests you from chapter 12. The due date for the project is Wednesday or Thursday April 19 and 20, 2000.

1. Write a newspaper article on a topic that was popular in this time period. Ideas may include:

• Opening of a new factory
• Erie Canal
• National Road

• Trail of Tears

1. Construct a timeline of the events in chapter 11 and 12 and place in hallway.
2. Prepare a report on transportation of the time period. Some suggestions are:

• Steam engines
• Covered wagons

• Locomotives

1. Research any of the people we studied in chapter 11 or 12. Some ideas are:

• "Old Hickory"
• Horace Mann
• Samuel Slater
• Brigham Young
• Eli Whitney
• Francis Cabot Lowell
• James Polk
• Daniel Boone

1. Have a news broadcast. This would need to be recorded and shown to the class. The broadcast should take the feel as though the reporter is really at one of the locations. Including having interviews with people who are at these places. Some suggestions are:

• From The Alamo
• From the Trail Of Tears
• From a factory opening

• From California in the gold rush

1. Trail of Tears report

7. Write a few journal entries as if you were a child on the Oregon Trail include:

• Hardships you encounter
• What your day is like
• What you do to keep busy on the trail
• Any other important information