DE History 121 Research Paper Topics
Mr. LeHew
DE History 121 Research Paper Topics
Mr. LeHew
People:
1. Chief Powhatan
2. Pocahontas
3. Captain John Smith
4. John Rolfe
5. Squanto
6. William Bradford
7. John Winthrop
8. William Penn
9. James Oglethorpe
10. Nathaniel Green
11. Benedict Arnold
13. Marquis D Lafayette
14. Charles Lee
15. Horatio Gates
16. Francis Marion
17. Winfield Scott
18. Zachary Taylor
19. Baron von Steuben
20. Jefferson Davis
21. Robert E. Lee
22. Thomas Jackson
23. P.G. T. Beauregard
24. Albert Sidney Johnston
25. Joseph E. Johnston
26. James Longstreet
27. Jeb Stuart
28. David Farragut
29. Ulysses S. Grant
30. William T. Sherman
31. Philip Sheridan
32. George Meade
33. George McClellan
34. George A. Custer
35. Stephen Decatur
36. John Paul Jones
37. Henry Lee (Light – Horse Harry)
38. Ben Franklin
39. Mathew C. Perry
40. John Adams
41. Alexander Hamilton
42. Andrew Jackson
43. James Madison
44. Lewis and Clark
45. James K. Polk
46. Daniel Morgan
47. Ethan Allen
48. Thomas Sumter
49. Philip Schuyler
50. Benjamin Lincoln
51.John Jay
52. John Hancock
53. Thomas Paine
54. Patrick Henry
55. Richard Henry Lee
56. Henry Laurens
57. Paul Revere
58. Samuel Adams
59. John Dickinson
60. Benjamin Rush
61. Betsy Ross
62. Thomas Mifflin
63. Thomas Sumter
64. Nathan Hale
65. Israel Putnam
66. Thomas Conway
67. Clara Barton
68. Nathan Bedford Forest
69. Braxton Bragg
70. William Alexander (Lord Stirling)
71. “Mad” Anthony Wayne
72. Women at war (Revolutionary War/Civil War)
73. Native Americans in the Revolutionary War
74. Joseph Galloway
75. Elbrigde Gerry
76. Peggy Shippen
77. Mercy Ottis Warren
78. George Washington
Events:
1. King Phillip’s War
2. Salem Witch Trials
3. Bacon’s Revolt
4. King William’s War
5. Stono Rebellion
6. War of Jenkin’s Ear
7. King George’s War
8. Battle of Bunker/Breed’s Hill
9. Battle of New York
10. Battles of Trenton and Princeton
11. Battle of Brandywine
12. Battle of Germantown
13. Battle of Saratoga
14. Battle of Guilford Courthouse
15. Battle of Monmouth Courthouse
16. Battle of Cowpens
17. Battle of Yorktown
18. The Alamo
19. Battle of Veracruz
20. Battle of Buena Vista
21. Battle of Cerro Gordo
22.Battle of First Manassas
23. Battle of Shiloh
24. Battle of Second Manassas
25. Battle of Antietam
26. Battle of Hampton Roads (Monitor vs. Virginia)
27. Battle of Gettysburg
28. Battle of Vicksburg
29. Campaign of the CSS Alabama
30. Battle of Fredericksburg
31. Battle of the Wilderness
32. Battle of Cold Harbor
33. Boston Tea Party
34. Boston Massacre
35. Stamp Act Congress
36. First Continental Congress
37. Second Continental Congress
38. Shays’ Rebellion
39. Whisky Rebellion
40. Northwest Ordinances
41. Constitutional Convention
42. XYZ Affair
43. Bill of Rights
44. Missouri Compromise
45. The Panic of 1819
46. The Compromise of 1850
47. Louis and Clark Expedition
48. Pike’s Expedition
49. The Covenant Chain
50. The French and Indian War
51. Bleeding Kansas
53. Siege of Boston
54. Battle of Oriskany
55. Battle of Bennington
56. Battle of Savannah
57. Battle of Kings’ Mountain
58. Battle of Camden
59. Battle of Eutaw Springs
60. Battle of White Plains
61. Invasion of Quebec (Revolutionary War or War of 1812)
62. Battles of Lexington and Concord
63. Battle of Baltimore
64. Battle of New Orleans
65. Naval battles of the War of 1812
66. Naval battles of the Revolutionary War
67. Battle of Charleston (1776, 1780)
68. Battle of Lake Champlain
69. Winter quarters at Valley Forge
70. French participation in the Revolution
Places:
1. Jamestown Colony
2. Plymouth Colony
3. Massachusetts Bay Colony
4. The Dominion of New England
5. West Point
6. New Netherlands
7. Louisiana Purchase
8. Maryland Colony
9. Pennsylvania Colony
10. Georgia Colony
11. Carolina Colony
12. Rhode Island Colony
13. Connecticut Colony
14. Northwest Territory
15. Fort Ticonderoga
16. Valley Forge
17. Louisiana Purchase
18. Fort Sumter
19. Delaware Colony
20. Vermont Colony
21. Williamsburg
22. Mount Vernon
23. St. Augustine
24. Santa Fe