Unit+5--Slavery+and+Sectional+Conflict


 * November 19- **


 * Lesson 1: The Antebellum South **
 * Lesson 2: The Reform Movement **
 * Lesson 3: Manifest Destiny **
 * Lesson 4: On the Brink of War **


 * Key Concepts **

**4.3 U.S. interest in increasing foreign trade, expanding its national borders, and isolating itself from European conflicts shaped the nation's foreign policy and spurred government and private** **initiatives.**

**5.1 The United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere adn emerged as the destination for many migrants from other countries.**

**5.2 Intensified by expansion and deepening regional divisions, debates over slavery and other economic, cultural and political issues led the nation into civil war.**

//**Essential Questions**//
 * ** What was the social structure of the ante-bellum South. Why were the planters, who were in the minority, still the dominant group? **
 * **Was growing cotton, using slave labor, profitable? **
 * **Was slavery a benign or evil institution? **
 * **Can legislative compromises solve moral issues? **
 * **Can the Supreme Court settle moral issues? **
 * **What were the Southern arguments in justification of slavery? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did life vary for the slaves? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What political and economic conditions served as motivations for westward expansion? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was the nature of slave life? What was the relationship between master and slave? **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How did the Trans-Mississippi west develop? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What was the nature of Manifest Destiny? Noble cause or economic imperialism? What was its relationship to US foreign policy during this era? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Was James K. Polk responsible for war with Mexico? What kind of leader was he? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Who was to blame for the war? Mexico or the United States? Was the US justified in waging war against Mexico? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Some historians have referred to the 1850s and its politicians as the “blundering generation.” Do you agree? **
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Explain the rise of the Republican Party and Lincoln’s rise within that party. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recommended Media for Lesson 1 **
 * [|Slavery and the Making of America]
 * [|Generations in Captivity]
 * [|Societies with Slaves and Slave Societies]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Additional Websites for Lesson 1 **
 * [|Slavery and the Making of America]
 * Harriet Tubman
 * []


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Key Vocabulary for Lesson 1 **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">the "peculiar institution", King Cotton, Lords of the Loom and Lords of the Lash, "plain folk", southern paternalism, the proslavery argument, slave religion, silent sabotage, the Underground Railorad, runaways, Harriet Tubman, Denmark Vessey's conspiracy, Nat Turner's rebellion **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recommended Media for Lesson 2 **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">African American Abolitionists <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (Gilder Lehrman - Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham)
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">Douglass & Garrison <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (Teaching American History - Richard Ruderman)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Other Websites of Interest for Lesson 2 **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;">I Will Be Heard <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt;"> (Cornell University Exhibition)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Key Vocabulary for Lesson 2 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Second Great Awakening, Deism, Unitarianism, “Camp Meetings,” “Circuit Riders,” Charles Finney, “Burned-Over Districts,” Adventists, William Miller, Joseph Smith, Church of Latter Day Saints, Brigham Young, Abolitionism, American Colonization Society, Liberia, William Lloyd Garrison, Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner’s Revolt, George Fitzhugh, Gag Resolution, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Grimke Sisters, Lucy Stone, Seneca Falls Convention, American Temperance Society, Dow Law, Horace Mann, Noah Webster, William McGuffey, Oberlin College, Dorothea Dix, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Oneida Colony, Shakers, Amana Community, Hudson River School, Stephen Foster, Knickerbocker Group, Transcendentalism, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Horace Greeley **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Additional Websites for Lesson 3 **
 * [|War with Mexico]
 * [|Mexican-American War]


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Key Vocabulary for Lesson 3 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Election of 1840, “Tippecanoe & Tyler Too,” Caroline Incident, Creole Incident, Maine Boundary Dispute, “Aroostook War,” Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Manifest Destiny, Election of 1844, James K. Polk, Four-Point Program, Walker Tariff, John Jacob Astor, Oregon Trail, Jedediah Smith, “54-40 Or Fight!,” Oregon Treaty, John Slidell, Mexican War, Spot Resolutions, Civil Disobedience, Battle of Buena Vista, Siege of Vera Cruz, Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Recommended Media for Lesson 4 **
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Coming of the Civil War <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (C-SPAN - Robert Remini)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Fugitive Slave Laws <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (C-SPAN - Elizabeth Varon)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Uncle Tom's Cabin <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Gilder Lehrman - David Reynolds)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">Dred Scott Case <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (C-SPAN - Paul Finkelman)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Election of 1860 & Secession <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (C-SPAN -Susannah Ural)


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Additional Websites for Lesson 4 **
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">The Trial of John Brown <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (UMKC School of Law Website)
 * <span style="color: blue; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">[|The Road to War Timeline] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (Washington Post Interactive)


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Key Vocabulary for Lesson 4 **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Popular Sovereignty, Wilmot Proviso, Election of 1848, Free-Soil Party, Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Personal Liberty Laws, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Gadsden Purchase, Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, “Bleeding Kansas,” Lawrence, Charles Sumner, Preston Brooks, Pottawatomie Massacre, John Brown, Lecompton Constitution, Election of 1856, James Buchanan, John C. Fremont, “Fire-Eaters,” Dred Scott Decision, Roger Taney, Panic of 1857, Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Freeport Doctrine, Harpers Ferry, Election of 1860, Constitutional Union Party, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, Crittenden Amendments, Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Tuesday, November 19, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 11, pps. 416-428 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Review the powerpoint # 21, The Antebellum South, at Powerpoint Link **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[file:AntebellumSouth.ppt]]


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Wednesday, November 20, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 11, pps. 429-438 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">FRQ Why did the institution of slavery command the loyalty of the vast majority of ante-bellum whites, despite the fact that only a small percentage of them owned slaves? Due Thursday. **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Homework in preparation for Thursday, November 21, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 11, pps. 438-448 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Reading Quiz **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Friday, November 22, 2012 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 12, pps. 454-471 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Negro Spirituals **
 * [[file:2012 Hidden in Plain Sight 2 column.pdf]]


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Monday, November 25, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 12, pps. 471-486 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Reading Quiz **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">FRQ Account for the emergence of utopian communities from the mid-1820's through the 1840's and evaluate their success and/or failure. **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Tuesday, November 26, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Finish Antebellum Reform **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Tuesday, December 3, 2013 **


 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Quest, Chapters 11 and 12 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Begin Manifest Destiny, pps. 493-495 **
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[file:ManifestDestiny.ppt]]
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">[[file:ElectionOf1840.ppt]]
 * [[file:ElectionOf1844.ppt]]
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Wednesday, December 4, 2013 **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Wednesday, December 4, 2013 **


 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">In class, discussion, partners over Harriet Jacobs and Narrative of the Life of a Slave **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Thursday, December 5, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 13, pps. 495-506 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Reading Quiz **

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 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">//Mexican War from the History Channel// **


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Friday, December 6, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Read Chapter 13, pps. 506-512 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">James K. Polk Presidential Worksheet due **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Monday, December 9, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Don't forget www.learntheaddress.org (Video tape yourself while reciting the Gettysburg Address.) Share the link with me by December 19th. (DO NOT PUT THIS OFF and Forget to do it.) **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read Chapter 13, pps. 512-519 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Reading Quiz **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce worksheets due **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Tuesday, December 10, 2013 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Reading Chapter 13, pps. 519-529 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Buchanan worksheet due **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Read, Madness of John Brown in After the Fact **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">Political Parties in the United States, 1820-1860 **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Homework in preparation for Wednesday, December 11, 2012 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading, Chapter 13, pps. 529-532 & Chapter 14, pps. 539-548 **
 * **<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Reading Quiz **