Antebellum America

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Antebellum America

• 1820-1860
• Sanchez
• Unit 4

2
Reform Movements

• Religion
• Transcendentalism
• Abolition
• Education
• Prison
• Women
• Temperance
• Workers

3
Comparison of antebellum North and south
4
Jacksons Presidency

• Graphic Organizer
• Spoils System
• VetoKing Andrew
• Nullification Crisis
• Bank Crisis
• Indian Removal
• Universal White Manhood Suffrage

5
Manifest Destiny

• What is Manifest Destiny?
• Completing the continental US
• Oregon
• California
• Utah
• Texas
• Southwest
• In groups create a visual or dramatic
  interpretation of the events leading to the US
  acquisition of your region.

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Map of Annexation
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Essential Questions

• How did Westward expansion contribute to the
  growing divisions between North and South?
• How did slavery continue to grow as the most
  divisive issue in American politics during
  antebellum times?
• How did the Missouri Compromise create a
  precedent for the issue of slavery in the new
  western territories?
• What role did the issue of nullification play in
  the increasing division between the North and the
  South?

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Key Words

• Free soil party
• Republican Party
• Popular sovereignty
• Nat Turners Rebellion
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Abolition
• Frederick Douglass

• Uncle Toms Cabin
• Grimke sisters
• Missouri Compromise
• Nullification Crisis
• John C. Calhoun
• States Rights
• Sectionalism

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Uncle Toms Cabin

• What did you learn from your readings regarding
  Uncle Toms Cabin and the Story of Eliza Harris?
• So you're the little woman who wrote the book
  that started this great war!
• Why was Uncle Toms Cabin important in widening
  the division between North and South?
• Do you think you would have been motivated to
  make a stand? Why or Why not?

10
Westward Expansion and Slavery

• How did westward expansion fuel the debate over
  slavery?
• What attempts were made at resolving the
  problems?
• Tallmadge Amendment
• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

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7th of March Speech

• Read
• Composition Notebook Entry
• Summarize the arguments presented by Daniel
  Webster
• What was Webster trying to accomplish in this
  speech?
• Was he a sell-out or a compromiser?

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Events Leading to the Civil War

• What were the key events, issues, and individuals
  related to the start of the Civil War Period in
  US History?
• Create a graphic organizer based on the following
  template. (link)
• Key Terms
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case
• Popular Sovereignty
• John Brown and Harpers Ferry
• Election of 1860