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Wayne RESA – SS / Grade 8 / Social Studies / Social Studies 8 / Week 22 - Week 27
RESA, MAISA MC3 Units
Unit Abstract

In this unit students explore the rising sectional tensions and how they affected the nation and its people. The unit begins with a comparison of economic, social, and cultural aspects of life in the North and South during the antebellum period. Students then focus on the divisive issue of slavery. They first review early attempts to abolish or contain slavery, such as the Northwest Ordinance and the Missouri Compromise. Students then explore the annexation of Texas, the Wilmot Proviso, changes in political parties, the Compromise of 1850, Bleeding Kansas, and the Dred Scott decision, analyzing how these events affected the Union. They also consider how abolitionism and slavery reflected issues of majority rule and individual liberty. In learning about life during the antebellum period, students explore the role of race in America, and how it affected both free and enslaved blacks. Specific attention is paid to resistance movements such as the Underground Railroad, Nat Turner’s revolt, and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. Using primary sources, students identify the reasons for secession (political, social, and economic) and investigate how historical interpretations vary by analyzing how historians have disagreed about the causes of the Civil War. Throughout the unit, students continue to examine how American society moved toward or away from its core ideal of freedom found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

Unit 5: The Coming of the Civil War - Unit Word Document with Contextualized GLCEs
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Stage One - Desired Results

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Standards
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Compelling Question

How did the Civil War reflect American society’s move toward or away from its core ideal of freedom as found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?

Supporting Questions
  1. How did slavery and abolitionism reflect issues involving majority rule and individual liberty?
  2. How did the reasons for secession reflect unresolved political, social, and economic tensions?
  3. How did questions of race manifest themselves in antebellum America?
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Content (Key Concepts)

abolitionism

civil interpretation

compromise

democracy

federalism

historical

individual liberty

institution of slavery

nationalism

popular sovereignty

radicalism

resistance movements

secession

sectionalism

states’ rights

 

Skills (Intellectual Processes)
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Stage Two - Assessment Evidence

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Unit Assessment Tasks
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Stage Three - Learning Plan

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Lesson Plan Sequence
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Resources

Equipment/Manipulative

Butcher paper

 

Computer with Internet

 

Markers

 

Overhead projector

 

Student Resource

4 Events Leading to the Civil War. Pink Monkey.com. 30 September 2015

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/studyguides/subjects/am_his/chap5/a0505401.asp

 

Alabama Ordinance of Secession. The Historical Text Archive. 30 September 2015 http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=170#Alabama

 

America’s Review of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. University of Virginia. 30 September 2015 http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/reviews/rehp.html

 

Assignment Discovery: America at War: Charge and Defeat. Discovery Channel School. 2004. United Streaming. 30 September 2015 http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=A60D45B4-F25F-42D1-AE66-4FC09685ACA9&tabStart=videoSegments(The first 13 segments on the Battle of Gettysburg).

 

Background Summary and Questions. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). Landmark Supreme Court Cases. Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/background2.html

 

Beatty, Patricia. Jayhawker. New York: Harper Trophy, 1995.

 

Bleeding Kansas. Guided Reading from The Impending Crisis, 1850. The Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History. 28 July 2008

 

The Bonnie Blue Flag. Digital Tradition Mirror. 30 September 2015 http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiBONBLUE;ttBONBLUE.html

 

Butler, Cynthia. “Cyclone in Calico.” Cobblestone: The History Magazine for Young People. Peterborough, NH: Cobblestone Publishers, April 1981: 12-17.

 

Cababe, Louise D., et al. U.S. History, Book 1: Beginnings to 1876. Calabasas, CA: Center for Learning, 1997. 163-210.

 

Causes of the Civil War. 100% Educational Videos. 2003. United Streaming. 30 September 2015 http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=82155FFA-1425-4595-BEA8-10662FDF80CF

 

The Causes of War. United Learning. 1996. United Streaming. 30 September 2015 http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=3E59E95A-1DEE-4DC6-9AAF-268557EF6826

 

The Compromise of 1850. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 28 July 2008

 

The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act. Africans in America. PBS. 30 September 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2951.html

 

Confederate States of America. Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union. Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 30 September 2015 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/texsec.htm

 

Confederate States of America. Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union. Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 30 September 2015 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/scarsec.htm

 

Confederate States of America Documents. Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 2003. 30 September 2015 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/csapage.htm

 

Confederate States of America. Georgia Secession. Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 1996. 30 September 2015 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/geosec.htm

 

Confederate States of America. Mississippi Secession. Avalon Project at Yale Law School. 1996. 30 September 2015 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/missec.htm

 

Davidson, James West, and Michael B. Stoff. The American Nation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2003. 460-472.

 

Davidson, James West, Pedro Castillo, and Michael B. Stoff. The American Nation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2003. 406-427, 458-481, 484-510.

 

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). Background Summary and Questions. Landmark Supreme Court Cases. Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/background2.html

 

The Dred Scott Case. Secession Era Editorials Project. Furman University. 28 July 2008

 

The Dred Scott Decision. Our Federal Government: The Supreme Court. Rainbow Educational Media. 2004. United Streaming. 30 September 2015 http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=1922EE50-C0AE-499F-BAEB-79FE519311CF&tabStart=videoSegments

 

Dred Scott: Introduction African American History. 30 September 2015 http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/index.html

 

“Events Leading to the Civil War: A Civil War Timeline.” The Civil War Homepage. 30 September 2015 http://www.civil-war.net/pages/timeline.asp

 

Flashpoint. Online Exhibits, Willing to Die for Freedom. Kansas State Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/territorial/territorial2.htm

 

Fugitive Slave Act 1850. U-S-History.com. 28 July 2008

 

Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. The Underground Railroad. University of California. 28 July 2008

 

The Gadsden Purchase and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. America's Era of Expansion and Reform, 1817-1860: America Under Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, 1853-1860: The Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Utopian Movements, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Election of Lincoln. United Learning. 2003. 30 September 2015 http://www.unitedstreaming.com/

 

Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns. New York: Laurel Leaf Press, 1993.

 

The Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Slavery Issue. Secession Era Editorials Project. Furman University. 28 July 2008

(Article from Cincinnati, Ohio. Daily Enquirer. 8 March 1857).

 

The Issue must be met. Secession Era Editorials Project. Furman University. 28 July 2008 (Article from Milledgeville, Georgia, Federal Union, 31 March 1857).

 

James Buchanan and the Dred Scott Decision, 1857. America Under Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan, 1853-1860: The Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Utopian Movements, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Election of Lincoln. United Learning. 2003. United Streaming. 30 September 2015 http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=D1045E8C-7D88-4EE6-A1D2-13DF2EBEAFF7&tabStart=videoSegments

 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. 28 July 2008

 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Causes of War. United Streaming. 30 September 2015 http://www.unitedstreaming.com/search/assetDetail.cfm?guidAssetID=826A518E-0AA1-4C84-B946-D790B88282F3

 

Lincoln Wins the Republican Nomination in 1860. Great American History. 30 September 2015

http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/nomination.htm

 

Map of the Presidential Election of 1860. 28 July 2008

 

Map Showing Distribution of Slaves. 28 July 2008

 

McClellan, Jim R. Historical Moments: Changing Interpretations of America’s Past. Vol. 1. 2d ed. Blacklick, OH: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2000. 347, 349.

 

The Missouri Compromise. America's Era of Expansion and Reform, 1817-1860: America Under James Monroe and John Quincy Adams, 1817-1828: The Monroe Doctrine and the Missouri Compromise. United Learning. 2003. 30 September 2015
http://www.unitedstreaming.com/

 

Mitchell's New Traveller's Guide Through The United States, Showing the Rail Roads, Canals, Stage Roads With Distances From Place To Place. 28 July 2008

 

Mitchell's Travellers Guide Through The United States. A Map of the Roads, Distances, Steam Boat & Canal Routes.” 28 July 2008 http://www.philaprintshop.com/images/mitchus41.jpg

 

Nystrom Atlas of United States History. Chicago: Nystrom Jerff Jones Education Division, 2004.

 

Online Exhibits, Willing to Die For Freedom. Kansas State Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/territorial/territorial1.htm

 

Opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case. Secession Era Editorials Project. Furman University. 30 September 2015 http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/nyajds57309a.htm (Article from Albany, New York. Evening Journal. 9 March 1857).

 

The Past and the Future. Secession Era Editorials Project. 30 September 2015 http://history.furman.edu/~benson/docs/sccmds57317a.htm(Article from Charleston, South Carolina, Mercury. 13 March 1857).

 

The Presidency of Millard Fillmore and the Compromise of 1850. America's Era of Expansion and Reform, 1817-1860: America Under James Polk, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore, 1845-1852: The Mexican War, The Oregon Treaty of 1846, and the Compromise of 1850. United Learning. 2003. 30 September 2015
http://www.unitedstreaming.com/

 

Rand McNally Atlas of American History. Skokie, IL: Rand McNally & Co., 1999.

 

Reynolds’ 1856 Political Map of the United States. Library of Congress. 30 September 2015 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/03/0320001r.jpg

 

Sodaro, Craig. “Freedom Train.” Readings in Social Studies: America in Progress. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2003. 147-160. (Also in Plays, The Drama Magazine for Young People. Vol. 51, No. 4. Jan./Feb., 1992. 61-69.).

 

Timeline. Civil War at Smithsonian. 30 September 2015 http://www.civilwar.si.edu/timeline.html

 

Trace Dred Scott’s Travel on a Map. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857). Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/trace.html

 

Teacher Resource

Admit Me Free Flag. Cool Things. Kansas State Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.kshs.org/cool3/admitmeflag.htm

 

African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P. Murray Collection, 1818-1907.American Memory Project. Library of Congress. 30 September 2015 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aap/aaphome.html

 

The African-American Mosaic Exhibition. Library of Congress. 30 September 2015 http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

 

Ayers, Edward L., Anne S. Rubin, and William G. Thomas. Valley of the Shadow. 2001. University of Virginia. 30 September 2015 http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

Background Summary and Questions. Reading Level 1. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857). Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/background1.html

 

Background Summary and Questions. Reading Level 2. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857). Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 28 July 2008 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/background2.html

 

Background Summary and Questions. Reading Level 3. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857). Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/background3.html

 

Buffum Tombstone. Online Exhibits, Willing to Die For Freedom. Kansas State Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/territorial/territorial1.htm

 

The Causes. The American Civil War. 16 February 2004. 28 July 2008

 

Civil War Causes, Timelines, Flags, and Map. Teacheroz.com. 30 September 2015 http://www.teacheroz.com/Civil_War_Causes.htm

 

The Civil War Home Page. CivilWar.net. 30 September 2015 http://www.civil-war.net/

 

The Compromise of 1850. From Revolution to Reconstruction: An Outline of American History. 30 September 2015 http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1994/ch6_p6.htm

 

Compromise of 1850 Map. The American Experience. PBS/WGBH. 30 September 2015 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/lincolns/politics/es_shift.html#

 

Constitution of the Confederate States of America. University of Tennessee. 28 July 2008

 

Declaration of Causing of Seceding State. University of Tennessee. 28 July 2008

 

Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period. African American Odyssey. Library of Congress. 2004. 30 September 2015 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart2.html

 

From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection Highlights: Abolition and Slavery. Library of Congress. 30 September 2015 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapcpres02.html

 

From Slavery to Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection Highlights: Politics and Government. Library of Congress. 30 September 2015 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aapchtml/aapcpres03.html

 

Ham, Debra Newman. Te African American Odyssey. Library of Congress. 30 September 2015 http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9802/aao.html

 

Kansas Emigrant Song. Territorial Kansas Online. 30 September 2015 http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php?SCREEN=view_image&document_id=100168&file_name=h000403

The Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Avalon Project. Yale Law School. 30 September 2015 http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/kanneb.htm

 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Emergence of the Republican Party. Teaching American History. Millard Public Schools. 30 September 2015 http://www.tahg.org/module_display.php?mod_id=119&review=yes

 

Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion. Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857). Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/majority.html

 

McClellan, Jim R. Historical Moments: Changing Interpretations of America’s Past, Vol. 1. 2d ed. Blacklick, OH: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2000. 318-400.

 

Nullification Crisis. U-S History.com. 28 July 2008

 

O’Reilly, Kevin. Book 2: Critical Thinking in the United States History Series: New Republic to Civil War. Teacher’s Guide. Pacific Grove, CA: Critical Thinking Press & Software, 1993. 113-117.

 

Oakland Schools Teaching Research Writing Website: Skills Progression & Lessons http://www.osteachingresearchwriting.org/

 

Pre-War and Secession. American History. About.com. 28 July 2008

 

R.H. Wilson Letter. E Pluribus Unum. Assumption College. 30 September 2015 http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/Kansas/

 

Secession Era Editorials Project. Furman University, Department of History. 30 September 2015 http://history.furman.edu/editorials/see.py

 

Sectional Conflict. United States Department of State. International Information. 28 July 2008

 

Southern Flag. Cool Things. Kansas State Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.kshs.org/cool3/southrightsflag.htm

 

Territorial Timeline. Online Exhibits, Willing to Die For Freedom. Kansas State Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.kshs.org/exhibits/territorial/timeline.htm

 

Thomas Jefferson to Senator John Holmes. April 22, 1820. Library of Congress. 30 September 2015 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/159.html

 

Trace Dred Scott’s Travel on a Map. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society. 30 September 2015 http://www.landmarkcases.org/dredscott/trace.html

 

Transcript of Missouri Compromise (1820). National Archives and Records Administration. 30 September 2015 http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=22&page=transcript

 

The Valley of the Shadow: The First Wave of Secession. 2001. University of Virginia. 30 September 2015 http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vshadow2/outlines/secession.html

 

The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War. 2001. University of Virginia. 30 September 2015 http://jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU/vshadow2/contents.html

 

The Wilmot Proviso, 1846. Mount Holyoke College. 30 September 2015 http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/wilmot.htm

 

Resources for Further Professional Knowledge

Freehling, William. The Road to Disunion, Vol.2: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854-1861. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

 

Holt, Michael F. The Fate of Their Country: Politicians, Slavery Extension, and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.

 

Levine, Bruce. Half Slave, Half Free: The Roots of the Civil War. Rev. ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.

 

Richards, Leonard, Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

 

 

 

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Expectations/Standards
MI: Social Studies (2007)
8th Grade
US History & Geography
U5 USHG ERA 5 – Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
U5.1 The Coming of the Civil War
Analyze and evaluate the early attempts to abolish or contain slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
8 – U5.1.1 Explain the differences in the lives of free blacks (including those who escaped from slavery) with the lives of free whites and enslaved peoples. (C2)
8 – U5.1.2 Describe the role of the Northwest Ordinance and its effect on the banning of slavery (e.g., the establishment of Michigan as a free state). (National Geography Standard 12, p. 167)
8 – U5.1.3 Describe the competing views of Calhoun, Webster, and Clay on the nature of the union among the states (e.g., sectionalism, nationalism, federalism, state rights). (C3)
8 – U5.1.4 Describe how the following increased sectional tensions
• the Missouri Compromise (1820)
• the Wilmot Proviso (1846)
• the Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act
• the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) and subsequent conflict in Kansas
• the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857)
• changes in the party system (e.g., the death of the Whig party, rise of the Republican party and division of the Democratic party) (C2; C3) (National Geography Standard 13, p. 169)
8 – U5.1.5 Describe the resistance of enslaved people (e.g., Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, John Brown, Michigan’s role in the Underground Railroad) and effects of their actions before and during the Civil War. (C2)
8 – U5.1.6 Describe how major issues debated at the Constitutional Convention such as disagreements over the distribution of political power, rights of individuals (liberty and property), rights of states, election of the executive, and slavery help explain the Civil War (C2).
U5.2 Civil War
Evaluate the multiple causes, key events, and complex consequences of the Civil War.
8 – U5.2.1 Explain the reasons (political, economic, and social) why Southern states seceded and explain the differences in the timing of secession in the Upper and Lower South. (C3, E1.2) (National Geography Standard 6, p. 154)
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