RUSH CHAPTERS 9-10
FRI 9/25 – pp 274-279 – Examine how the U.S. economy changed. Describe how technology changed American industries.
MON 9/28 – pp280-285 – Analyze the reasons why Americans moved West. - Assign p285 Critical Thinking – DUE TUES 9/29
TUES 9/29 – pp 288-292 – Describe the movement into Texas and the Texas War of Independence.
WED 9/30 – pp293-299 – Explain Polk’s 4 part program. Describe the Mexican War and the consequences.
THURS 10/1 – pp304-309 – Compare and contrast the various laws and compromises dealing with slavery (p308) - Why was the issue of slavery in the new territories (California, Utah, New Mexico) such a highly debated issue? Was the North or South more justified in being upset about the issue? – DUE FRI 10/2
FRI 10/2 – pp310-317 – Explain the Underground RR, popular sovereignty, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
MON 10/5 – pp 310-317 – Describe the violence and political changes during the 1850’s.
TUES 10/6 – Analyze the events that led to the Civil War. - Make a chart of these events: Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Decision, John Brown’s Raid, Lincoln’s election. Explain what each was and how it helped cause the Civil War. - DUE TUESDAY 10/6
WED 10/7 - Wrap up
THURS 10/8 – TEST Chapters 9-10 ESSAY – If you had been alive in the 1850’s and an abolitionist, which style of abolitionism would you have supported and why? (How would you have ended slavery?) DUE THURS 10/8
STUDY GUIDE
popular sovereignty, abolitionism, John Brown's raid, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott decision, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stephan Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Fugitive Slave Law, personal liberty laws, James K. Polk, Mexican War, Oregon Territory, James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Zachary Taylor, Millard Filmore, Wilmot Proviso, Cal. gold rush, Texas, Henry Clay (the Great Compromiser), the Alamo, Rio Grande River, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Whig Party, Republican Party, the Black Hawk War, cotton gin, slave resistance, Know-Nothing Party, Erie Canal, Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Sojuorner Truth