Class Activities Homework Due In Class Today Date
Tues
11/13
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Discussion of Slavery and Abolition
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Chapter 17 part 1(pages 360-370)
Block
11/14
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Finish Slavery and Abolition
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Discussion of Unit 5 Test
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Finish Organizing Essays and Learning to
Write Paragraphs
Friday
11/16
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Manifest Destiny
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Chapter 17 part 2 (pages 370-378)
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Documents 1 - 5
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Be prepared to discuss questions at the end of Document 3
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Bring your writing notebook
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Chapter 18 part 1 (pages 380-390)
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Document 6
Mon
11/26
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War with Mexico
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Chapter 18 part 2 (pages 390-398)
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Documents 7 and 8
Tues
11/27
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Sectional Crises
Block
11/28
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Work on Writing – in class essay
Friday
11/30
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Manifest Destiny at Home and Abroad
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Receive Unit 6 Review
Mon
12/3
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Crisis of Union
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Chapter 19 part 1 (pages 400-411)
Documents 9 and 10
Bring Notebook to Class
Chapter 19 part 2 (pages 411-418)
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Chapter 20 part 1 (pages 420-432)
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Documents 11 and 12
Tues
12/4
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Path to War
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Chapter 20 part 2 (pages 432-443)
Block
12/6
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Civil War Bake Off
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Work on Review
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Bring your bake off entry
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Bring your Review Sheet
Friday
12/7
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Unit 6 Test
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Receive Unit 7 HW
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Receive Winter Break Assignment
Sources Used this Unit:
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Unit 6 Review
Pageant (Your Textbook): Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American
Pageant: A History of the Republic . Boston: McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin. 11 th
Edition.

Content Covered
Southern Life and Economy:
King Cotton; Planter Aristocracy; The White Majority in the South
Slavery:
The Slave System; Free Blacks; Plantation Slavery; Slave Life
Differing Views on Slavery:
Abolitionism; Radical Abolitionism; Southern Reaction to Abolitionism; Underground Railroad;
Literary Opposition to Slavery
Politics:
John Tyler; Polk; Taylor; Pierce; Buchanan; Lincoln-Douglas Debates; Split in the Democrats;
Electoral Upheaval of 1860
Economics:
Crash of 1857; Economics of Slavery
Attempts to Deal with the “Slavery Issue”:
Popular Sovereignty; Sectional Balance; Compromise over Slavery; Kansas – Nebraska; Bleeding
Kansas; Sumner and Brooks; Dred Scott; John Brown and Harper’s Ferry; Secession
Manifest Destiny:
Maine and the “Aroostook War”; Texas; Oregon; Mandate” for Manifest Destiny; California
Gold; Railroads and the Gadsden Purchase
External Conflict:
Issues with England; Mexican War; Cuba
Primary Reading
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American Pageant: Chapters 17-20
Secondary Reading
Differing Points of View on Slavery:
1.
James Hammond Proclaims Cotton King (1858) – Document 18-E-3 TAS V1 (ps 397-398)
2.
Differing Views on Abolition: Daniel Webster is Critical (1850) AND Abraham Lincoln
Appraises Abolitionism (1854) – Documents 18-D-1&2 TAS V1 (ps 392-394)
Life Under Slavery:
3.
Points of View: Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831) – From America Firsthand V1. Pages 198-213
4.
Life Under the Lash – From America Firsthand V1. Pages 222-228
5.
Visual Portfolio: Slavery and Freedom - From America Firsthand V1. Pages 253-262
Manifest Destiny:
6.
The Debate over Oregon – Documents 19-B-1,2,3,&4 TAS V1 (ps 402-407)
7.
President James Polk Justifies the Texas Coup (1845) – Document 19-C-2 TAS V1 (ps 409-410)
8.
Mexico Remembers the Despoilers (1935) – Document 19-E-4 TAS V1 (ps 418-420) Secondary
Source
9.
The Gold Rush
. From Through Women’s Eyes. Pages 210-213.
Secondary Source
Dealing with the “Slavery Issue”:
10.
The Compromise Debates of 1850 – Documents 20-B-1,2,&3 TAS V1 (ps 423-428)
11.
The Impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Documents 21-A-1,2,&3 TAS V1 (ps 438-443)
12.
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates – Documents 21-D-1&2 TAS V1 (ps 449-451)

I.
1.
2.
3.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
William Lloyd Garrison
Denmark Vesey
6.
7.
8.
Sojourner Truth
Theodore Dwight Weld
Frederick Douglass
4.
5.
David Walker
Nat Turner
9.
10.
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
Elijah P. Lovejoy
II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:
11. oligarchy 13.
“positive good”
12. abolitionism
III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
14. Cotton Kingdom
15. The Liberator
20.
21.
Lane rebels gag resolution
16.
17.
18.
19. mulattoes
American Anti-Slavery Society peculiar institution
Liberty Party
22. American Colonization Society
23. cotton gin
24.
“black belt”
25. hillbillies
IV. Essay Questions:
26. Describe the complex structure of southern society. What role did plantation owners, small slaveholders, independent white farmers, poor whites, free blacks, and black slaves each have in the southern social order?
27. Compare the attitudes and practices regarding slavery and race relations in the North and the
South. Explain the common statement that southerners liked blacks as individuals but despised the race, while northerners claimed to like blacks as a race but disliked individuals (p. 364)
28. How did the reliance on cotton production and slavery affect the South economically, socially, and morally, and how did this reliance affect its relations with the North?
29. How did slavery affect the lives of African-Americans in both the South and the North?
30. A large majority of Americans, both North and South, strongly rejected radical abolitionism.
Why, then, did abolitionism and antislavery come to shape American politics in the 1840s and 1850s?

I.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Tyler
John Slidell
Winfield Scott
Zachary Taylor
Nicholas P. Trist
6.
7.
8.
9.
James K. Polk
Stephen W. Kearney
Robert Gray
John C. Frémont
II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:
10. Manifest Destiny
III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
11. Fiscal Bank
12. Webster-Ashburton Treaty
13.
“spot” resolutions
19. Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
20. Creole
14.
15.
16. Bear Flag Revolt
17.
Tariff of 1842
“conscience” Whigs
Caroline
18. Hudson’s Bay Company
21. Liberty Party
22.
“all of Mexico”
23. Aroostook War
24. Walker Tariff
25. Wilmot Proviso
IV. Essay Questions:
26.
What led to the rise of the spirit of “Manifest Destiny” in the 1840s, and how did that spirit show itself in the American expansionism of the decade?
27. How did rivalry with Britain affect the American decision to annex Texas, the Oregon dispute, and other lesser controversies of he period?
28. Why did the crucial election of 1844 come to be fought over expansionism, and how did Polk exercise his “mandate” for expansion in his attempt to obtain California?
29. What were the causes and consequences of the Mexican War?
30. Most Americans believed that expansion across North America was their “destiny.” Was expansion actually inevitable? What forces might have stopped it? How would American history changed if, say, the Mexican War had not occurred?

I.
1.
2.
3.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lewis Cass
Stephan A. Douglas
Franklin Pierce
7.
8.
9.
Matthew C. Perry
Harriet Tubman
William H. Seward
4.
5.
6.
Zachary Taylor
John C. Calhoun
Winfield Scott
10.
11.
12.
James Gadsen
Henry Clay
Millard Fillmore
II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:
13. popular sovereignty
III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
14. Free Soil Party
15. Fugitive Slave Law
16.
“conscience” Whigs
17.
“personal liberty laws”
18. Underground Railroad
21.
22.
23.
24.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty
Seventh of March Speech
Ostend Manifesto
“higher law”
25. Kansas-Nebraska Act 19. Compromise of 1850
20.
“fire eaters”
IV. Essay Questions:
26. What urgent issues created the crisis leading up to the Compromise of 1850?
27. What was the effect of the morally powerful slavery debate on American political parties? What caused the demise of the Whig Party, and the rise of the Free Soil and Republican parties?
28. How did the Compromise of 1850 attempt to deal with the most difficult issues concerning slavery? Was the Compromise a “success?” By what standard?
29. Why were proslavery southerners so eager to push for further expansion in Nicaragua, Cuba, and elsewhere in the 1850s?
30. What were the causes and consequences of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

I.
1.
2.
3.
Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Hinton R. Helper
John Brown
6.
7.
8.
John C. Frémont
Roger Taney
John C. Breckenridge
4.
5.
James Buchanan
Charles Sumner
9. Abraham Lincoln
10. Jefferson Davis
II. Define and state the historical significance of the following:
11. southern nationalism
III. Describe and state the historical significance of the following:
12.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
19. Dred Scott Decision
13.
14.
15.
The Impending Crisis of the South
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
New England Immigrant Aid Society
20. panic of 1857
21. Lincoln-Douglas debates
22. Freeport Doctrine
16. LeCompton Constitution
17. “Bleeding Kansas”
18. American (Know-Nothing) Party
23. Harpers Ferry raid
24. Constitutional Union Party
25. Crittenden Compromise
IV. Essay Questions:
26. How did each of the crisis events of the 1850s help lead toward the Civil War?
27. How did the political developments of the period work to fragment the Democratic party and benefit the Republicans?
28. Explain the crucial role of Stephan A. Douglas in the political events of the 1850s. Why did
Douglas’s attempts to shove aside the conflict over slavery fail?
29. Could the Crittenden Compromise or some other proposal have prevented or at least postponed the
Civil War? Why was compromise successful in 1820 and 1850 but not in 1860?
30. How did the North and the South each view the various events of the 1850s? Why were their views so different?