Regional Divisions

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

***Quizlet***

Topics

1 Rebellions - Haiti and Toussaint L'Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner

• Top Five slave rebellions
  • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/did-african-american-slaves-rebel/
• Nat Turner
  • http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/natturner/nat.html
• 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
  • http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=maps

2. Industrial North, Agricultural South and Technology

• Plantation management
  • http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/deBow.html

Reading

• Cotton mill
  • http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/nation/jb_nation_cotton_1.html

Visuals

• Graph comparing number of railroad lines
  • http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/northandsouth.html
• 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
  • http://teachinghistory.org/files/BtT-CotCW-PS3-460x.jpg
  • http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/census/mfr1.jpg
• Agricultural Crops of the South
  • http://wwnorton.com/college/english/naal8/section/volB/maps/american11_4.jpg
• Rails 1830,1840,1850
  • http://www.ushistoryscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/rail-road-1.jpg
• Rails 1860
  • http://www.ushistoryscene.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/railroad2.jpg
• Rails and mail 1860-1869
  • http://railroads.unl.edu/documents/jpeg/medium/rail.str.0243.02.jpg
• Canals
  • http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/19-century/us-canals.jpg
• Cities
  • http://users.humboldt.edu/ogayle/hist110/AmericanCities.png

3. Tariffs and Nullification

Summary

http://www.ushistory.org/us/24c.asp

Teacher Intro Presenation

Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNgIUUD7i-A

4. Underground Railroad, Slave Advertisements, Harriet Tubman

• Has to be done at home, won’t work at school
  • http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/media/underground-railroad-journey-freedom/?ar_a=4
• Requires student to register - easy 2 step process
  • http://www.mission-us.org/pages/mission-2
• Scholastic Interactive
  • http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/plantation.htm
• Map of Routes
  • http://www.learnnc.org/lp/media/uploads/2009/05/underground_railroad_map.jpg
  • http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/0history/ugrrmapUS.gif
• 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
  • http://journals.chapman.edu/ojs/index.php/VocesNovae/article/view/328/704
  • http://history.furman.edu/editorials/see.py?menu=dsmenu&sequence=dsmenu&location=%3E%20Dred%20Scott

6. Election of 1860 and the Republican Party

• Map and data from election results
  • http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1860
• Snippits from textbooks from 1920 to present
  • http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/9604
• Images
  • http://wps.pearsoncustom.com/wps/media/objects/2428/2487068/images/Resources/ah3_p073.jpg
  • http://www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/img/53.gif