U5 - Sectionalism, Civil War & Reconstruction

Student Resources

• Images of Slavery, or "Slavery As It Is"
  • presentation of Images of the Industry from the slave ships to slave pens to restraining devices; presentation of Dominant Ideology (proslavery words and images), video from Roots showing an auction (caution language)
  • "Kidnapping and Capitalism: Human Trafficking in Antebellum America" - focus on IL
    • the above was published on the website of Historians Against Slavery
  • Modern Slavery - What is your slavery footprint?
  • Test your knowledge on the history of slavery (from the Washington Post)
• Women's Movement
  • presentation on the Q "Where did the belief in women's inferiority come from?"
  • timeline of women's rights in the early republic (National Women's History Museum)
• Expansion & Sectionalism, including the debate over the expansion of slavery
  • transcripts of The West excerpts on Texas independence
  • PBS film excerpt on US War with Mexico from Latino Americans, bilingual Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo & an explanation of treaty content (from a UW-Madison professor) - if that link goes bad, here is a PDF version
  • US-Mexico border (slides that we reviewed in class with the US War with Mexico)
  • antebellum political parties (zoom in to the era) - also review the Albert.io guide to political parties
  • Who was on the Taney Court at the time of the Dred Scott decision?
  • Stephen Douglas profile on PBS Freedom: The History of US, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates

Religion's influence on the era has many forms.

• Museum of the Bible (opened in fall 2017) has many displays related to the era, and has a bible created specifically for the enslaved population, which excluded the entire book of Exodus and other sections that may have given hope to enslaved people.

Civil War

• Poll to take in class when instructed; related to PBS Newshour segment with historians discussing causation & the Civil War
• Battle map, showing border states
• Timeline with map
• Emancipation
  • Reuters report "Who Banned Slavery When"