Eng11: Test: Frederick Douglass

November 20, 2009

Test over Frederick Douglass

Read intro to Romanticism, pages 136-150

Prepare a 5-minute presentation on one ot these topics:

Passing the Bill of Rights
Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
Moving the capital to Washington DC
Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase
Mexican War of Independence
The War of 1812
Writing of the Star Spangled Banner
Napoleon at Waterloo
The Missouri Compromise
Opening of the Erie Canal
Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
Brook Farm
Treaty of Nanking
The war with Mexico over Texas
Irish potato famine
California gold rush
Commodore Perry and Japan
Dred Scott decision
Sojourner Truth
Samuel Morse and the Morse code

rubric for scoring presentations