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7th Grade Social Studies
Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Class 129— Test
March 23, 2015
Homework:
-Current Events due 3/30
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 1 pgs. 476-481 (due 3/26)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 2 pgs. 483-487 (due 3/30)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 488-490 (due 4/1)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 491-492 (due 4/6)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 493-495 (due 4/7)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 496-497 (due 4/8)
-Chapter 15 Test Friday 4/10
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7th Grade Social Studies
Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Class 130— Scheduling & PSSA Prep
March 24, 2015
Focus: Leave your materials and report to the upstairs computer lab.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Student Objectives:
1. I will schedule my 8th grade classes.
2. I will practice for the PSSA reading examination.
Homework:
-Current Events due 3/30
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 1 pgs. 476-481 (due 3/26)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 2 pgs. 483-487 (due 3/30)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 488-490 (due 4/1)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 491-492 (due 4/6)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 493-495 (due 4/7)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 496-497 (due 4/8)
-Chapter 15 Test Friday 4/10
Handouts:
PSSA Reading Prompt-Frederick Douglas
I. Scheduling
II. Frederick Douglas PSSA Questions
Key terms/ideas/ people/places:
Frederick Douglas
By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:
When is your scheduling form due?
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7th Grade Social Studies
Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Class 131— Zachary Taylor’s Death
March 25, 2015
. Focus:
 What role did Zachary Taylor play in the War with Mexico?
 Find Zachary Taylor on page R16 and answer these questions:
… How long did her serve as President?
… How old was he when he died?
…Who replaced him as president?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Student Objectives:
1. I will identify the origins of the term “OK” and realize that I am not that much different than the youth of the
Antebellum Era.
1. I will evaluate the feasibility of the cause of President Zachary Taylor’s death.
Homework:
-Current Events due 3/30
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 1 pgs. 476-481 (due 3/26)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 2 pgs. 483-487 (due 3/30)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 488-490 (due 4/1)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 491-492 (due 4/6)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 493-495 (due 4/7)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 496-497 (due 4/8)
-Chapter 15 Test Friday 4/10
Handouts:
none
I. Background on Taylor
II. Election of 1848
III. Taylor’s Death
Key terms/ideas/ people/places:
Zachary Taylor
Lewis Cass
Henry Clay
By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:
Who ran in the election of 1848? Who won?
How did Taylor die?
What is popular sovereignty?
Popular Sovereignty
Notes
Class 131— Zachary Taylor’s Death
March 25, 2015
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Background on Taylor
o Born to Virginia plantation owners
o Related to James Madison and Robert E. Lee
o Daughter married Jefferson Davis
o Grew up in Kentucky
o Old Rough and Ready-Indian Fighter
Election of 1848:
o Crumbling away of second party system
o Clay announces his candidacy
o Whigs run Taylor, they ran a military hero of a way they had opposed
o Democrats run Lewis Cass-believes in popular sovereignty
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7th Grade Social Studies
Canada, Mexico, & U.S. History from the Revolution to Reconstruction
Class 132— Sectionalism and Compromise
March 26, 2015
Focus: What were the three components of the Missouri Compromise? What is the Wilmot Proviso?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Student Objectives:
1. I will identify the difference between a “Free Soiler” and an abolitionist.
2. I will recall the impact of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 in the controversy over slavery.
3. I will re-enact a sectional dispute between Henry S. Foote and Thomas Hart Benton on the Senate floor.
4. I will describe how the Compromise of 1850 affected the slavery issue.
Homework:
-Current Events due 3/30
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 2 pgs. 483-487 (due 3/30)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 488-490 (due 4/1)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 3 pgs. 491-492 (due 4/6)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 493-495 (due 4/7)
-Read and outline Chapter 15, Section 4 pgs. 496-497 (due 4/8)
-Chapter 15 Test Friday 4/10
Handouts:
none
I. Free-Soilers
II. Missouri Compromise
III. Foote VS. Benton
IV. Compromise of 1850
Key terms/ideas/ people/places:
Free-Soiler
Abolitionist
Henry Clay
Missouri Compromise
David Wilmot
Wilmot Proviso
Zachary Taylor
Millard Fillmore
Popular Sovereignty
Henry S. Foote
Thomas Hart Benton
Great Compromiser
Compromise of 1850
Stephen Douglas
Omnibus Bill
Fugitive Slave Law
Henry Clay
By the end of class today, I will be able to answer the following:
What were the three components of the Missouri Compromise?
What was the Wilmot Proviso? How did it contribute to Sectionalism?
What were the five components of the Compromise of 1850?
Who was the Great Compromiser? Why did he get this name?
Notes
Class 132— Sectionalism and Compromise
March 26, 2015
Free Soilers:
 stop all African Americans from the territories whether they were free or slave
 Northern whites did not want to share the territories with slaveholders or with slaves-“did not want to compete
with slave labor or to permit any further extension of the political power of planters.”
 they would never interfere with slavery in the states
 greatly outnumbered the abolitionists in the North
Abolitionists:
 ban slavery
 only 10% of the population
Missouri Compromise:
 Maine Free state
 Missouri Slave state
 Slavery below the 36 degree 30’ line
Wilmot Proviso:
 outlawing slavery in the territories
 Wilmot doesn’t want whites to compete with African Americans for jobs
Election of 1848:
 Whigs-Zachary Taylor
 Democrats-Lewis Cass
 Free Soilers-Martin Van Buren
Popular Sovereignty-people decide if a state would have slavery or not
Compromise of 1850:
 California enters as free state
 Popular sovereignty would determine slave or free state in the Mexican Cession
 Slave trade banned in D.C.-gives foreigners a bad perception of the nation
 Stricter fugitive slave law
 Boarder dispute between TX and NM solved-Gov’t helps pay Mexican debts
Henry Clay-Great Compromiser
fugitive slave act
 All citizens had to participate in catching slaves
 Fined $1,000 or jailed for 6 months if helped runaway
 Special Courts-$10 for sending slave back-$5 for setting one free
 Northerners feel they are part of the slave system-the federal government had gone into the business of manhunting and required freeborn Americans to become man-hunters on occasion
 Far more than a law to overtake slaves that were running away but also a device to recover slaves that ran away
in the past