It wasn't easy! Our country’s North and South were at odds with each other. One side believed in slavery, and the other side did not. What happened after our country worked so hard to gain independence from England? Find out in this ToolBook.
The lessons in this ToolBook spark lively class discussions and activity with the following topics:
- Compare and contrast the economies of the North and South.
- How did slavery stunt the South’s economic development and eventually lead to its defeat in the Civil War?
- Play "Three Compromises" (Missouri Compromise, etc.).
- Debate the Fugitive Slave Act.
- Debate about John Brown: Was he a madman or a martyr?
- Evaluate Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner.
- Thoreau on Civil Disobedience
- Learn key terms with "The ABCs of Jacksonian Democracy," "Can you talk like Andrew Jackson?" and more.
- Westward Expansion
- The Mexican War
- Slavery & Slave Resistance
- The Abolitionists
- Reform movements of the 19th century
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| Introduction | |
| #1 Lecture What was the antebellum era? | |
| #2 Graphic Organizer | The antebellum era: who, what, where, when, why and how? |
| Andrew Jackson | |
| #3 Lecture | Andrew Jackson! |
| #4 Lecture | Jacksonian democracy |
| #5 Graphic Organizer | Jacksonian democracy: who, what, where, when, why and how? |
| #6 A Story | Andrew Jackson at 14 - what made him tick? |
| #7 Group Analysisr | Discussion and answers to Andrew Jackson questions |
| #8 Group Analysisr | “Life is like a rock group”: Jacksonian democracy - what do you think? |
| #9 Lecture | The Trail of Tears |
| #10 Graphic Organizer | The Trail of Tears: who, what, where, when, why and how? |
| #11 Graphic Organizer | What caused the Trail of Tears? (Manifest destiny!) |
| #12 Graphic Organizer | What were the results of the Trail of Tears? |
| #13 Mapping | The Five Civilized Tribes |
| #14 Board Game | The Trail of Tears |
| #15 Mapping | The Trail of Tears |
| #16 Game | Native Americans: Pontiac, Sacajawea, Tecumseh, Sequoyah, Osceola |
| #17 Game | Native Americans: Pontiac, Sacajawea, Tecumseh, Sequoyah, Osceola |
| #18 Readings | Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears |
| #19 Debate | "Resolved, the Cherokee should have been moved to the West.” |
| #20 Game | The ABCs of Jacksonian Democracy (recall terms) |
| #21 Game | Can you talk like Andrew Jackson? (define terms) |
| #22 Game | Mars / Venus: A guy vs a gal |
| #23 Game | Honk if you hate history: Take the test out loud |
| #24 Game | Stump the Teacher: Take the test out loud |
| #25 Game | The Last Man Standing: Take the test out loud |
| Test | 105 questions |
| Westward Expansion | |
| #26 Timeline | Timeline of Westward Movement . . . with graphics! From the Northwest Ordinance (1787) to the Homested Act (1862) |
| #27 Lecture | The Northwest Ordinance - how a territory becomes a state |
| #28 Lecture | The Louisiana Purchase |
| #29 Internet | Blank map: Can you identify all of the territories acquired by the U.S.? |
| #30 Game | The Explorers: Lewis & Clark, Sacajawea, Zebulon Pike, Jim Bridger, and John C. Fremont |
| #31 Game | The Explorers: same as above |
| #32 Mapping | Rivers of the West |
| #33 Mapping | Territorial Expansion: Learn all of the territories at one whack! |
| #34 Examine maps | Class discussion: What was “Manifest Destiny”? |
| #35 Internet | Examine maps of the Oregon Trail |
| #36 Internet | The Great Plains - why it was the last region to be settled. |
| #37 Game | The ABCs of Westward Expansion (recall terms) |
| #38 Game | Can you talk like an expansionist? (define terms) |
| #39 Game | Mars/Venus |
| #40 Game | Honk if you hate history! |
| #41 Game | Stump the Teacher! |
| #42 Game | The last Man Standing |
| Test | 91 questions |
| The Mexican War | |
| #43 Timeline | Timeline of the Mexican War - with graphics! |
| #44 Graphic Organizer | The seven stages of the Mexican War |
| #45 Lecture | What was the Mexican War? |
| #46 Graphic Organizer | The Mexican War: who, what, where, when, why and how? |
| #47 Graphic Organizer | What were the causes of the Mexican War? |
| #48 Graphic Organizer | What were the results of the Mexican War? |
| #49 Internet | The Mexican War: Causes & Results |
| #50 Lecture | Manifest Destiny: Its political, economic, and social aspects |
| #51 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze one concept: Manifest Destiny |
| #52 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze one concept: Annexation |
| #53 Group Analysisr | Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze one concept: Mexican Cession |
| #54 Internet | Spanish America, 1830s - background to the Mexican War |
| #55 Game | The Texas War for Independence, 1836 |
| #56 Mapping | The Mexican War |
| #57 Game | Name that War! Students must distinguish between 3 wars - |
| War of 1812, Mexican War, and the Civil War | |
| #58 Game | Name that War (another version) |
| #59 Group Analysisr | Life is like a rock group: Students analyze from 5 different viewpoints - Manifest Destiny |
| #60 Group Analysisr | Life is like a rock group: The Mexican War |
| #61 Game | The ABCs of the Mexican War (recall terms) |
| #62 Game | Can you talk like James K. Polk? |
| #63 Game | Mars/Venus |
| #64 Game | Honk if you hate history! |
| #65 Game | Stump the Teacher! |
| #66 Game | Last Man Standing! |
| Test | 86 questions 140 |
| Slavery | |
| #67 Transparency | Three Regions: The economic differences bettween North, South |
| #68 Game | Three Regions: North, South, . . . or West? |
| #69 Game | Three Regions (another version) |
| #70 Timeline | Timeline of Slavery |
| The plantation system, the slave trade, and the spread of slavery. | |
| #71 Lecture | The Cotton Gin: How it spread slavery |
| #72 Internet | The Cotton Gin: Its impact |
| #73 Internet | The increase in the number of slave states |
| #74 Lecture | Cotton Fever, 1800-1860 |
| #75 Internet | Photos of slavery |
| #76 Readings | Slave Narratives |
| #77 Timeline | Timeline of Slave Revolts: Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner |
| #78 Lecture | The story of Denmark Vesey |
| #79 Internet | Homework: Denmark Vesey |
| #80 Lecture | The story of Nat Turner |
| #81 Internet | A conversation with Nat Turner |
| #82 Group Analysisr | “Life is like a rock group”: Nat Turner’s slave revolt - what do you think? |
| #83 Internet | The Black Codes |
| #84 Transparency | The status of slaves and free blacks |
| #85 Internet | Free blacks in the North |
| #86 Transparency | Compare free blacks in the South and in the North |
| #87 Internet | David Walker’s Appeal |
| #88 Lecture | How slavery stunted the South’s economic development |
| #89 Lecture | The average white farmer owned no slaves |
| #90 Game | The ABCs of Plantation Slavery (recall terms) |
| #91 Game | Can you talk like a slaveholder? |
| #92 Game | Mars/Venus |
| #93 Game | Honk if you hate history! |
| #94 Game | Stump the Teacher! |
| #95 Game | The Last Man Standing! |
| Test | 167 questions 184 |
| The Abolitionists | |
| #96 Lecture | What was the Abolitionist movement? |
| #97 Graphic Organizer | The Abolitionist movement: who, what, where, when, why and how? |
| #98 Timeline | Timeline of the Abolitionist movement - with graphics! |
| #99 Game | The Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown. |
| #100 Game | The Abolitionists (new version) |
| #101 Game | “Slavery Spreads to the West” |
| #102 Mapping | Map the lives of the Abolitionists |
| #103 Internet | The Abolitionists: Garrison, Douglass, Tubman, Truth, Stowe, Brown |
| #104 Speech | “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth |
| #105 Internet | The American Anti-Slavery Society |
| #106 Quotations | Interpret 15 famous quotations by the Abolitionists |
| #107 Debate | "Resolved: Truth is not determined by majority vote.” |
| #108 Internet | How the Abolitionists regarded slavery and slaveholders |
| #109 Internet | The Underground Railroad & the Mason-Dixon Line |
| #110 Internet | w/ writing Conversations, Essays, Timeline & Art |
| #111 Writing Activity | Expressive Essay: I am Frederick Douglass |
| #112 Writing Activity | Narrative Essay: I am Frederick Douglass |
| #113 Writing Activity | Informative Essay: I am Frederick Douglass |
| #114 Writing Activity | Persuasive Essay: I am Frederick Douglass |
| #115 Group Analysisr | Life is like a rock group: Students analyze from 5 different viewpoints - the Abolitionists. |
| #116 Game | Mars/Venus: How much do you know about this topic? |
| #117 Mapping | How slavery spread to the West |
| #118 Lecture | Three Compromises: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 |
| #119 Game | Three Compromises |
| #120 Game | Three Compromises |
| #121 Internet | Three Compromises |
| #122 Lecture | The Delicate Balance |
| #123 Internet | The States’ Rights Doctrine |
| #124 Debate | The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850 |
| #125 Internet | Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857 |
| #126 Lecture | The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858 |
| #127 Quotations | Interpret famous quotations by Abraham Lincoln |
| #128 Document | “A House Divided” - Lincoln’s speech in its entirety, and analyzed. |
| #129 Debate | Popular Sovereignty |
| #130 Game | The Life of Abraham Lincoln - why he was against slavery |
| #131 Internet | John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, 1859 |
| #132 Lecture | The Abolition Movement |
| #133 Group Analysisr | Life is like a rock group: The Abolition movement - what do yout think? |
| #134 Debate | "Resolved, John Brown was a madman.” |
| #135 Game | The ABCs of the Abolition Movement (recall terms) |
| #135 Game | Can you talk like an abolitionist? (define terms) |
| #137 Game | Mars/Venus |
| #138 Game | Honk if you hate History! |
| #139 Game | Stump the Teacher! |
| #140 Game | The Last Man Standing |
| Test | 126 questions 262 |
| Reform Movements | |
| #141 Timeline | Timeline of the 19th century reform movements: Public education, temperance, women’s rights, the mentally ill, and prison reform |
| #142 Lecture | The Second Great Awakening |
| #143 Internet | Horace Mann and the rise of public schools |
| #144 Internet | The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848 |
| #145 Internet | The Declaration of Sentiments (women’s rights manifesto) |
| #146 Internet | Women leaders: Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony |
| #147 Quotations | Interpret famous quotations by women’s rights leaders |
| #148 Lecture | Wyoming: The first state to allow women to vote, 1869 |
| Art & Literature | |
| #149 Internet | Realism in American art: Currier & Ives, Winslow Homer |
| #150 Lecture | The Transcendentalists: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau |
| #151 Quotations | Interpret quotations from Thoreau’s essay, On Civil Disobedience |
| #152 Quotations | Interpret quotations from the Transcendentalists |
| #153 Game | The ABCs of 19th century Reform Movements (recall terms) |
| #154 Game | Can you talk like a 19th century reformer? (define terms) |
| Test | 119 questions |
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