1. The National History Day Project

2. What is the National History Day Project? It is a primarily at home project where you will be researching a topic in history based on a theme and then present your research in a historical paper, exhibit, documentary (movie), web site or performance.

3. National History Day Theme: Leadership and Legacy in History

4. Leadership- and Legacy Leadership– a person who guides or directs a group

5. Leadership- and Legacy Legacy– anything handed down from the past. Anything left for future generations. What was his legacy?

6. Abraham Lincoln  Kept the country together during a time of rebellion.  Successfully led Congress to pass the 13 th Amendment, essentially making slavery illegal.  Is considered America’s best President.

7. Leadership- and Legacy Legacy– anything handed down from the past. Anything left for future generations. What was his legacy? What was his legacy?

8. Mahatma Gandhi  He led campaign to free India from British control.  Successfully overthrew the British controlled Indian government through non-violent acts rather than rebellion and war.

9. Leadership- and Legacy Legacy– anything handed down from the past. Anything left for future generations. What was his legacy? What was his legacy?

10. Leadership- and Legacy  Led a campaign to end legal segregation (Apartheid) in South Africa.  Helped to overthrow the government of South Africa and created a democracy.  Became the first democratically elected President of South Africa

11. Leadership- and Legacy Legacy– anything handed down from the past. Anything left for future generations. What was his legacy? What was his legacy?

12. Leadership- and Legacy  Became the Chancellor and then dictator of Germany.  Passed various laws discriminating against Jew and other minority groups.  Systematically killed millions of Jews, Catholics, Homosexuals, and the mentally and physically handicapped. One’s leadership can leave a positive or negative impact on history

13. Think-Ink-Pair-Shar e Take a few minutes to come up with five examples of leadership that has left a meaningful legacy. Take a few minutes to come up with five examples of leadership that has left a meaningful legacy. Next share your work with your partner. Listen to each other’s ideas (What is similar and what is different?). Next share your work with your partner. Listen to each other’s ideas (What is similar and what is different?). Using what the both of you discussed, write a list of the three examples that had the most meaningful legacy and be able to explain why you chose those as the three best. Using what the both of you discussed, write a list of the three examples that had the most meaningful legacy and be able to explain why you chose those as the three best.

14. Leadership and Legacy in History Your project must contain both elements of the theme. The leadership does not have to leave a positive legacy in history. This project is not meant to be a biography, the most important part of the project is to focus on the legacy. The project does not have to be about one leader, you can choose to complete your project on various leaders who left the same legacy.

15. Queen Elizabeth I The legacy left behind by the leader of a country. Queen Elizabeth I is widely considered England’s greatest monarch. You could discuss how her leadership impacted England.

16. NAACP The legacy left behind by a group. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People led the fight for civil rights and is a major reason the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.

17. Steve Jobs The legacy left behind by the leader of a company. Steve Jobs founded a company that changed the way Americans compute, listen to music, communicate with each other and on and on.

18. John Locke The legacy left behind by a philosopher. John Locke was a thinker who pioneered such ideas as Natural Law, freedom of religion and freedom of thought.

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