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Missouri History Project
• Each person will be placed in a group with 4-5
people
• Your group will be assigned a time period to
research
• You will choose 1 important person, place or event
to research and gather information about
• You will create a visual presentation that you will
create and present using PowerPoint or Photo
Story
• Each group will then merge their projects into 1
presentation and create a group slide
Research Procedure
• Get information either from book source or
Internet site
• Read and highlight important information
• Take notes from the highlighted information by
putting it in your own words
• Plan slides using bullets or sentences (use slide
planning sheet)
• Keep all websites and book sources written down
or pasted into a document to use for a work cited
slide (Bibliography)
1650-1800
Famous Missouri Places/ People/ Events - 1650 to 1800
Events
Places
People
European Explorations
St Genevieve
Osage Native Americans
Lead Mining
European Settlements
Jaques Marquette
St Louis
Robert de La Salle
Cahokia
Sac
Mine la Monte
Fox
Fort Orleans
Louis Jolliet
St Charles
Pierre Laclede
Potosi
Native Americans
Cape Girardeau
European (French) Settlers
Etienne de Bourgmont
1800-1840
Events
Places
People
Lewis and Clark Expedition
St Charles
Meriwether Lewis
Missouri Compromise
St Louis
William Clark
Louisiana Purchase
St Regis Seminary
Sacagawea
Fur Trading
St Joseph
Thomas Jefferson
New Madrid Earthquake
Corps of Discovery
Steamboat Development
Alexander McNair
Mormons
Mountain Men
1840-1900
Events
Places
People
Westward Expansion
St Louis
Dred Scott
Civil War
Lincoln (Institute) University
Jesse James
Education
Eads Bridge
Pioneers
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri School for the Deaf
Susan Blow
Pony Express
Elephant Rock State Park
Eugene Field
Women's Sufferage
Underground Railroad
George Washington Carver
Laura Redden Searing
Granite/stone Quarries
Pioneer Children
Baseball History
Pioneer Women
Pioneers
1900-Current
Events
Places
People
World's Fair
Forest Park
Charles Lindbergh
Winston Churchill's "Iron
Curtain" speech
Lake of the Ozarks
Thomas Hart Benton
1993 The Great Flood
Kansas City
Harry Truman
St Louis
Scott Joplin
State Capitol
John Meachum
Gateway Arch
Stan Musial
Times Beach
Lou Brock
Zoo
Bob Gibson
Meramec Caverns
Jack Buck
Jackie Robinson