Name:
Period:
Date:
Expansion of Slavery: Newspaper Project
Missouri
Compromise
Name:
Compromise
of 1850
Name:
KansasNebraska
Act
Name:
Dred Scott
v. Sandford
Name:
Final
Product
Information to Include in Article:
- What was the conflict with Missouri?
- What was the North’s opinion of the issue? The South?
- Who came up with the Missouri Compromise?
- What did the Missouri Compromise accomplish? Describe.
- Create two interviews within the article discussing the Missouri Compromise
Final Project:
- Include a picture with caption related to the Missouri Compromise
- Create a title for the article
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Journal # 56, 57; Creating America pg. 358
Information to Include in Article:
- What was the conflict with California and the Mexican Cession?
- What was the North’s opinion of the issue? The South?
- Who came up with the Compromise of 1850?
- What did the Compromise of 1850 accomplish? Describe.
- Create two interviews within the article discussing the Compromise of 1850
Final Project:
- Include a picture with caption related to the Compromise of 1850
- Create a title for the article
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Journal # 56, 57; Creating America pg. 459-461
Information to Include in Article:
- Who came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
- What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act accomplish? Describe.
- What occurred in Kansas after the Act was passed? Describe.
- What occurred in Congress after the Act was passed? Describe.
- Create two interviews within the article Kansas-Nebraska Act & Bleeding Kansas
Final Project:
- Include a picture with caption related to the Kansas-Nebraska Act or Bleeding
Kansas
- Create a title for the article
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Journal # 59, 62; Creating America pg. 463-465
Information to Include in Article:
- What was the Dred Scott case about?
- What was the Supreme Court’s decision about Scott & African Americans in
general? Explain.
- What was the Court’s decision about Missouri Compromise? Why?
- What were the reactions of the North? The South? Explain.
Final Project:
- Include a picture with caption related to the Dred Scott case
- Create a title for the article
Journal # 63, 64; Creating America pg. 467-488
Include in Newspaper:
- Title for the newspaper
- Table of Contents: listing articles as well as other things that would be found in
the newspaper (weather, sports, classified, etc…)
- 4 Advertisements appropriate to the 19th century
- Neatly format the final project to resemble a newspaper
- Final product may be typed or handwritten; pictures may be drawn or printed
- Turn in Final with rubric and rough drafts
TOTAL POINTS
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