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Essential Question
How did each of the events below serve to drive a wedge between the northern and southern regions of the United States prior to the Civil War
Topics
1 Rebellions - Haiti and Toussaint L'Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner
- Top Five slave rebellions
- Nat Turner
- Confession of Nat Turner
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/turner.html
- 1-5 Introduction to Document
- 5-12 Background to who Nat Turner is
- 12-20 The details of the rebellion carried out
- 20 - 23 Conclusion
- Page with maps, images and supplemental information
2. Industrial North, Agricultural South and Technology
Reading
Visuals
- Graph comparing number of railroad lines
- Map showing population density of country
- http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/fimage/lincolnimages/us_1860_totpopden_040201_400.jpg
- Map showing density of industrial factories
- Agricultural Crops of the South
- Rails 1830,1840,1850
- Rails 1860
- Rails and mail 1860-1869
- Canals
- Cities
3. Tariffs and Nullification
Summary
4. Underground Railroad, Slave Advertisements, Harriet Tubman
- Has to be done at home, won’t work at school
- Requires student to register - easy 2 step process
- Scholastic Interactive
- Map of Routes
- Runaway Slave Advertisements
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/RAS
- http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFsQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnationalhumanitiescenter.org%2Fpds%2Fmaai%2Fenslavement%2Ftext8%2Fvirginiarunawayads.pdf&ei=N0xIU6_vAefL2QWZwoHoCQ&usg=AFQjCNE5QE6j4MlWJgc3E4Pen2fYRISRbQ&bvm=bv.64542518,d.b2I
5. Dred Scott Case
- http://www.nps.gov/jeff/planyourvisit/dredscott.htm
- http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=29
- Video Link w/ Summary and Primary Quotes within
- Northern and Southern Newspaper Reactions, Primary Quotes contained within
6. Election of 1860 and the Republican Party
- Map and data from election results
- Snippits from textbooks from 1920 to present
- Images
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