Civil War Topics

***** Broad ***** 
(Reports about specific people should focus 
on their role in the Civil War)
The Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery
Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
Sojourner Truth
"Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Clara Barton
Army Life
Medicine and Hospitals
Transportation
The Pony Express
Children of the Civil War (difficult to organize)
Women in the Civil War (difficult to organize)
The Role of Minorities in the Civil War
   * Blacks in the Civil War
   * Native Americans in the Civil War
Weaponry of the Civil War
Major Battles of the Civil War
EC) Music of the Civil War
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
The Calvery
EC) Reconstruction
EC) Modern Civil War History - Historic Sites, Museums, 
Books, Reenactments, etc (difficult to organize)

***** Narrow *****  (All are Extra Credit if Done Well)
Missouri Compromise (Difficult)
Dred Scott Decision (Difficult)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (Difficult)
Florida in the Civil War
The Mississippi River and the Civil War (Difficult)
Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Vicksburg
Battle of Shiloh
Fort Sumter
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Navies and Ships of the Civil War
Battle of Shiloh
Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Battle of Antietam (Difficult)
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's Assassination
Battle of Fredericksburg
Diaries of the Civil War (Very interesting, difficult)
Causes of the Civil War (Mucho EC if comprehensive)
Effects of the Civil War (Mucho EC if comprehensive)