Growth and Conflict
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TOOLBOOK: You need only one for the entire class!
Action-packed lessons – students perform in front of the class!Timeline: If it had not been for Eli Whitney, slavery would have died out.
Board game: “Slavery spread to the West.”
Lectures with graphic organizers.
Interpret documents: quotations, speeches, political cartoons, photos, slave narratives.
Map the Underground Railway.
Group analysis: Compare and contrast the economies of the North and South.
How slavery stunted the South’s economic development – and eventually led to its defeat in the Civil War.
Play “Three Compromises” (Missouri Compromise, etc.)
Debate the Fugitive Slave Act.
Debate: John Brown – madman or martyr?
Evaluate Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner.
Thoreau, On Civil Disobedience.
Write a persuasive essay: “I am Frederick Douglass . . .”
Games galore, including “The Gong Show.”
Projects: Students teach the class.
Homework on the internet.
Heavy on terms: “The ABCs of Jacksonian Democracy” (recall terms). “Can you talk like Andrew Jackson?” (define terms).
“Let your classroom BLOOM!” (Using Bloom’s taxonomy, explore terms in depth.)
Assessment: Learn the logic of a multiple-choice test by playing “Honk if you hate history!”
Concludes with the mother of all tests: 699 questions. [Reverse designers: give a test at the beginning of every class.]
- Growth & Conflict
- Jacksonian Democracy
- Westward Expansion
- The Mexican War
- Slavery & Slave Resistantce
- The Abolitionists
- Reform movements of the 19th century
The Test
699 questions
Our test is tough: If your students can do well, the state test should be a
breeze.
Simple to use
One book for the whole class.
No learning curve: Lessons are ready to reproduce.
Saves time
All the facts are included:
There is no need to use a textbook or reference books.
Your students will zip through the material.
Each lesson is 20 minutes in and out. Perfect for block scheduling.
Introduction
Lesson #1 Lecture/graphic What was the antebellum era?
1. Andrew Jackson
Lesson #2 Lecture Andrew Jackson!
Lesson #3 Lecture/graphic Jacksonian democracy
Lesson #4 A story Andrew Jackson at 14 - what made him tick?
Lesson #5 Group analysis “Life is like a rock group”: Jacksonian
democracy - what do you think?
Lesson #6 Lecture/graphic The Trail of Tears
Lesson #7 Graphic organizer What caused the Trail of Tears? (Manifest destiny!)
Lesson #8 Graphic organizer What were the results of the Trail of Tears?
Lesson #9 Mapping The Five Civilized Tribes
Lesson #10 Board Game The Trail of Tears
Lesson #11 Mapping The Trail of Tears
Lesson #12 Game Pontiac, Sacajawea, Tecumseh, Sequoyah, Osceola
Lesson #13 Game Pontiac, Sacajawea, Tecumseh, Sequoyah, Osceola
Lesson #14 Readings Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears
Lesson #15 Debate “Resolved, the Cherokee should have been moved to the
West.”
Lesson #16 Game The ABCs of Jacksonian Democracy (recall terms)
Lesson #17 Game Can you talk like Andrew Jackson? (define terms)
Lesson #18 Game Mars / Venus: A guy vs a gal
Lesson #19 Game Honk if you hate history: Take the test out loud
Lesson #20 Game Stump the Teacher: Take the test out loud
Lesson #21 Game The Last Man Standing: Take the test out loud
The Test The test consists of105 questions.
2. Westward Expansion
Lesson #22 Timeline Timeline of Westward Movement . . . with graphics!
Lesson #23 Lecture The Northwest Ordinance - how a territory becomes a state
Lesson #24 Lecture The Louisiana Purchase
Lesson #25 Internet Blank map: Can you identify all of the territories acquired
by the U.S.?
Lesson #26 Game Lewis & Clark, Sacajawea, Zebulon Pike, Jim Bridger, John
Fremont
Lesson #27 Game The Explorers
Lesson #28 Mapping Rivers of the West
Lesson #29 Mapping Territorial Expansion: Learn all of the territories at one
whack!
Lesson #30 Examine maps Class discussion: What was “Manifest Destiny”?
Lesson #31 Internet Examine maps of the Oregon Trail
Lesson #32 Internet The Great Plains - why it was the last region to be settled.
Lesson #33 Game The ABCs of Westward Expansion (recall terms)
Lesson #34 Game Can you talk like an expansionist? (define terms)
Lesson #35 Games Four games: Take the test out loud
The Test The consists of 96 questions.
3. The Mexican War
Lesson #36 Timeline Timeline of the Mexican War - with graphics!
Lesson #37 Graphic organizer The seven stages of the Mexican War
Lesson #38 Lecture/graphic What was the Mexican War?
Lesson #39 Graphic organizer What were the causes of the Mexican War?
Lesson #40 Graphic organizer What were the results of the Mexican War?
Lesson #41 Internet The Mexican War: Causes & Results
Lesson #42 Lecture Manifest Destiny: Its political, economic, and social aspects
Lesson #43 Group analysis Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze one concept:
Manifest Destiny
Lesson #44 Group analysis Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze one concept:
Annexation
Lesson #45 Group analysis Using Bloom’s taxonomy, analyze one concept:
Mexican Cession
Lesson #46 Internet Spanish America, 1830s - background to the Mexican War
Lesson #47 Board Game The Texas War for Independence, 1836
Lesson #48 Mapping The Mexican War
Lesson #49 Game Name that War! Students must distinguish between 3 wars -
War of 1812, Mexican War, and the Civil War
Lesson #50 Game Name that War (another version)
Lesson #51 Group analysis Life is like a rock group:
Students analyze from 5 different viewpoints - Manifest Destiny
Lesson #52 Group analysis Life is like a rock group: The Mexican War
Lesson #53 Game The ABCs of the Mexican War (recall terms)
Lesson #54 Game Can you talk like James K. Polk?
Lesson #55 Games Four games: Take the test out loud
Test The test consists of 86 questions.
4. Slavery
Lesson #56 Transparency Three Regions: The economic differences between North,
South
Lesson #57 Game Three Regions: North, South, . . . or West?
Lesson #58 Game Three Regions (another version)
Lesson #59 Timeline Timeline of Slavery
The plantation system, the slave trade, and the spread of slavery.
Lesson #60 Lecture The Cotton Gin: How it spread slavery
Lesson #61 Internet The Cotton Gin: Its impact
Lesson #62 Internet The increase in the number of slave states
Lesson #63 Lecture Cotton Fever, 1800-1860
Lesson #64 Internet Photos of slavery
Lesson #65 Readings Slave Narratives
Lesson #66 Timeline Timeline of Slave Revolts: Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner
Lesson #67 Lecture The story of Denmark Vesey
Lesson #68 Internet Homework: Denmark Vesey
Lesson #69 Lecture The story of Nat Turner
Lesson #70 Internet A conversation with Nat Turner
Lesson #71 Group analysis Life is like a rock group:
Nat Turner’s slave revolt - what do you think?
Lesson #72 Internet The Black Codes
Lesson #73 Transparency The status of slaves and free blacks
Lesson #74 Internet Free blacks in the North
Lesson #75 Transparency Compare free blacks in the South and in the North
Lesson #76 Internet David Walker’s Appeal
Lesson #77 Lecture How slavery stunted the South’s economic development
Lesson #78 Lecture The average white farmer owned no slaves
Lesson #79 Game The ABCs of Plantation Slavery (recall terms)
Lesson #80 Game Can you talk like a slaveholder?
Lesson #81 Games Four games: Test the test out loud
Test The test consists of 167 questions.
5. The Abolitionists
Lesson #82 Lecture/graphic What was the Abolitionist movement?
Lesson #83 Timeline Timeline of the Abolitionist movement - with graphics!
Lesson #84 Game The Abolitionists: William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass,
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, JohnBrown.
Lesson #85 Game The Abolitionists (new version)
Lesson #86 Board game Slavery Spreads to the West
Lesson #87 Mapping Map the lives of the Abolitionists
Lesson #88 Internet The Abolitionists: Garrison, Douglass, Tubman, Truth, Stowe,
Brown
Lesson #89 Speech “Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth
Lesson #90 Internet The American Anti-Slavery Society
Lesson #91 Quotations Interpret 15 famous quotations by the Abolitionists
Lesson #92 Debate “Resolved: Truth is not determined by majority vote.”
Lesson #93 Political cartoons How the Abolitionists regarded slavery and slaveholders
Lesson #94 Internet The Underground Railroad & the Mason-Dixon Line
Lesson #95 Writing a speech “I am Frederick Douglass”: Students
write four types of essays -
expressive, narrative, informative, and persuasive
Lesson #97 Mapping How slavery spread to the West
Lesson #98 Lecture Three Compromises: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850,
and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Lesson #99 Game Three Compromises
Lesson #100 Game Three Compromises
Lesson #101 Internet Three Compromises
Lesson #102 Lecture The Delicate Balance
Lesson #103 Internet The States’ Rights Doctrine
Lesson #104 Debate The Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
Lesson #105 Internet Dred Scott v Sandford, 1857
Lesson #106 Lecture The Lincoln-Douglas debates, 1858
Lesson #107 Quotations Interpret famous quotations by Abraham Lincoln
Lesson #108 Document “A House Divided” - Lincoln’s speech in its entirety, and analyzed.
Lesson #109 Debate Popular Sovereignty
Lesson #110 Board game The Life of Abraham Lincoln - why he was against slavery
Lesson #111 Internet John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry, 1859
Lesson #112 Group analysis Life is like a rock group:
The Abolition movement - what do you think?
Lesson #113 Debate "Resolved, John Brown was a madman.”
Lesson #114 Game The ABCs of the Abolition Movement (recall terms)
Lesson #115 Game Can you talk like an abolitionist? (define terms)
Lesson #116 Games Four games: Take the test out loud
The Test The test consists of 126 questions.
6. Reform Movements
Lesson #117 Timeline Timeline of the 19th century reform movements:
Public education, temperance, women’s rights, mentally ill, prisons
Lesson #118 Lecture The Second Great Awakening
Lesson #119 Internet Horace Mann and the rise of public schools
Lesson #120 Internet The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
Lesson #121 Internet The Declaration of Sentiments (women’s rights manifesto)
Lesson #122 Internet Women leaders:
Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
Lesson #123 Quotations Interpret famous quotations by women’s rights leaders
Lesson #124 Lecture Wyoming: The first state to allow women to vote, 1869
Art & Literature
Lesson #125 Internet Realism in American art: Currier & Ives, Winslow Homer
Lesson #126 Lecture The Transcendentalists:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
Henry David Thoreau
Lesson #127 Quotations Interpret quotations from Thoreau’s essay, On Civil
Disobedience
Lesson #128 Quotations Interpret quotations from the Transcendentalists
Lesson #129 Game The ABCs of 19th century Reform Movements (recall terms)
Lesson #130 Game Can you talk like a 19th century reformer? (define terms)
Test The test consists of 119 questions.