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Unit IV Syllabus: Slavery, Lincoln and the Civil War |
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12/6 Tue. |
Test on Westward Expansion and the first seven presidencies
Some key questions to consider: Why do fools fall in love? Why do birds sing? What is so hard about signaling for a lane change before making one?
Reading Due: Study for the test! |
12/8 Thur. |
Video: “The Cause” from Ken Burns’ Civil War Series
Some key questions to consider: What does Burns say are the main causes of the war that we should be paying attention to?
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12/9 Fri. |
Slave Quotations (note: some trustees may sit in on class to see how brilliant you are. Pay them no mind, they are mostly harmless)
Some key questions to consider: Please read the quotations carefully. Bring notes to class on the point of view of each of the speakers, as discerned from the evidence in the documents. Also, please make some notes as to what conclusions, if any, we might be able to draw about the institution of slavery based on these primary sources. Are any of them surprising to you?
Reading Due: Slave Quotations handout (online) |
12/13 Tue. |
Complete work with Slave Quotations primary sources. Key concepts for the Civil War lecture.
Some key questions to consider: What do you think the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, The Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Dred Scott v. Sandford decision all have in common? Why did the numerous attempts to resolve the question of slavery in the newly created Western territories always meet with failure? How did these failures move the nation ever closer to the Civil War? Was this movement towards conflict inevitable, or were there possible solutions to the slavery question that Congress failed to examine?
Reading Due: Nation of Nations pp. 396-406
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12/15 Thur. |
Key concepts for the Civil War lecture continued
Some key questions to consider: See above questions for the lecture.
Reading Due: Nation of Nations pp. 406-417 |
12/16 Fri. |
Introduction to the 1860 Election Simulation Reading Due: Please read the four party platforms (found online) as well as the abolitionist point of view even though they did not enter a candidate in the electionprior to coming to class. Please make notes on what you see as the major ideas of each of the parties and bring them to class. |
12/17 - 1/2 |
WINTER BREAK (ENJOY, RELAX, RECOVER) |
1/3 Tues. |
1860 Election Simulation Reading Due: Come to class with notes on the "logic" of your party's platform (you are to hand these in electronically before class starts). Specifically this means that you are to examine the assumptions that they hold, their purpose and their concepts of key ideas (like popular sovereignty or slavery). This outline should be in bulleted form. |
1/5 Thur. |
1860 Election Simulation Reading Due: Please come to class having ranked the nine issues given to you in order of importance for your party based on the logic you have further clarified last class. In addition to writing down your rankings, please also write a paragraph on each issue stating why, according to your party's logic, you ranked it where you did. Please hand a copy of this in electronically prior to the start of class. |
1/10 Tue. |
Election of 1860 paper due!
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1/12 Thur. |
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1/13 Fri. |
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