A simple T-Chart SmartBoard Notebook file that requires students to find both supporting and opposing evidence for the key statement that Haitian independence was more progressive that the American Revolution. The chart can be used with John Green's Crash Course World History episode on Haitian Independence and/or the following web link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Revolution. Part of the lesson can be given over to research and the other to discussion of findings. This can be done as