Sustainability research project

HIST 1301-73002

Sustainability Research Group Project (70 points)

Due Date: Wednesday, May 8, 11:59 PM CT

Instructions: For this group project, you have an opportunity to work in groups of 4-5 students. Your group is to

choose and explore one of the following topics in U.S. history, and analyze how they relate or pertain to the

economic, societal and/or environmental sustainability:

 Transcendentalism

 Henry David Thoreau

 Keystone Species

 Factory System

 Urbanization

 Homestead Act, 1862

 Cotton Kingdom

 Slavery

 Policy of Removal

 Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-06

 First Transcontinental Railroad

 Dorothea Dix

 U.S.-Mexican War

 New Amsterdam

 John James Audubon

 Sodbusters

 Manifest Destiny

 Vaqueros and Rancheros

 Social Banditry

 Fur Trade

 Cash Crops

 Francis Cabot Lowell

 California Gold Rush

 Mountain Men

 Freedmen’s Bureau

 Civil War Food Riots

 Sharecropping System

 Labor Movement

 Deforestation

 Olaudah Equiano

 Jamestown Colony

 Frederick Law Olmsted

 Homeopathy

 Oregon Trail

 Mission System

 Indentured Servitude

 Powhatan

 Buffalo Soldiers

 Columbian Exchange

 Market Revolution

 Utopian Communities

 Sacajawea

 Cherokee Nation

 Louisiana Purchase, 1803

 Soil Erosion

 Erie Canal

Once your group has chosen an approved topic, the group will write and submit an annotated

bibliography of sources. Each group is required to utilize a minimum of four primary sources and three

secondary/tertiary sources. Each source must include an explanation of 4-5 complete sentences regarding

the source’s significance to your sustainability research topic within the context of U.S. history. Do not

cut and paste or plagiarize from other sources to write your annotated bibliography. Instead, you

must assert your own analysis and thoughts on what you have read about the source and why it may be

relevant to your research topic.

Your annotated bibliography must be properly typed: 12-size font, double-spaced, in paragraph

form, with complete sentences, and one-inch margins. Use the Turabian or Chicago style of writing when

formatting your annotated bibliography. Your group must also provide a title page—title of your paper,

full name of each member, course, date and your professor’s name. Your group’s annotated bibliography

accounts for 70 points. The annotated bibliography must be uploaded in eCampus before the deadline.