HONORS U.S. HISTORY - REFORMS & SECTIONALISM
Assign chapters 15,16,18,19 – Set up a chart/paragraph explaining how each of these events dealt with slavery/states rights/sectionalism. – Briefly explain each and explain why the North, South, and West would support, oppose, or be neutral on each. – Constitutional Convention 1787, Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Law, Underground RR, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, John Brown’s Raid, Lincoln’s election – DUE THURS 10/13
TUES 10/4 & WED 10/5 – Why did the reform movement begin? How did the Second Great awakening encourage social reform? How did immigration affect the U.S. – Were the grassroots movements in the Age of Reform successful in achieving their goals? In your answer cite 3 of the following: women’s rights, abolition, public education, prison reform, temperance, religious revival. - DUE THURS 10/6
THURS 10/6 & TUES 10/11 - What is popular sovereignty? Why was the concept of popular sovereignty so popular as a way resolving the issue of slavery? Then explain why, ultimately, it failed - Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the Southern economy. Why did the non-slaveholding white majority support slavery? A favorite argument of the South was that the black slave was better off than the wage earner (wage slave) of the North or England. In what respect was this true? False?
THURS 10/13 - Go over chart in class - What were the major differences between the North, South, and West? - Read pp. 460-461 and discuss
FRI 10/14 – Test - Sectionalism/Reform - ESSAY – Always before, in 1787, 1820, 1833, and 1850, the North and South had been able to compromise their differences. Why not in 1861? Give at least 2 reasons.
STUDY GUIDE
Stephen Douglas, Franklin Pierce, Zachary Taylor, John C. Calhoun, Winfield Scott, Martin Van Buren, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Sojuorner Truth, Daniel Webster, Matthew Perry, Harriet Tubman, William Seward, Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown’s raid in Harpers Ferry, James Buchanan, Charles Sumner, Dred Scott Decision, Roger Taney, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, popular sovereignty, Fugitive Slave Law, Underground RR, 7th of March Speech, Ostend Manifesto, “higher law”, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Lecompton Constitution, “Bleeding Kansas”, American (Know Nothing) party, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Constitutional Union party