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On the Brink of War

11/30/2014

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Learning Target: 
I can summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & I can evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.

Critical Vocabulary:
Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, Prigg v. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, “Fire-Eaters,” “Omnibus Bill,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Abelman v. Booth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “Young America” Movement, Black Warrior, Ostend Manifesto, Kansas-Nebraska Act, New England Emigrant Aid Company, “Bleeding Kansas,” Republican Party, Dred Scott Decision, Abraham Lincoln, Freeport Doctrine, John Brown, Pottawatomie Creek, Lecompton Constitution, Harpers Ferry, Constitutional Union Party, Election of 1860, Crittenden Compromise, Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, First Inaugural Address, Fort Sumter
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Manifest Destiny Notes

11/24/2014

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Manifest Destiny Document Study

11/20/2014

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Manifest Destiny

11/19/2014

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Learning Target:
I can evaluate the extent to which the nineteenth century belief in “Manifest Destiny” led to the growing sectional conflict in the United States.

Critical Vocabulary: Manifest Destiny, John O'Sullivan, President James K. Polk, Oregon Territory, Treaty of 1818, Oregon Trail, Oregon Treaty of 1846, Stephen F. Austin, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Texas Revolution, Battle of the Alamo, Goliad Campaign, General Sam Houston, Battle of San Jacinto, Election of 1844, James K. Polk, John Slidell, John C. Frémont, General Zachary Taylor, Mexican American War, “Spot Resolutions,” “Civil Disobedience,” Battle of Buena Vista, “Bear Flag Revolt,” General Winfield Scott, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Wilmot Proviso, “Popular Sovereignty,” Lewis Cass
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Snow Day!

11/17/2014

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Antebellum Reform Movements

11/13/2014

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Learning Target: 
 I can discuss the social reform movements that developed in the United States from 1790-1860.

Critical Vocabulary:
Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Second Great Awakening,Charles Grandison Finney, Oberlin College, New Harmony, Brook Farm, Shakers, Oneida Colony, Joseph Smith, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young, Dorothea Dix, Horace Mann, Catharine Beecher, Temperance Movement, American Temperance Union, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Seneca Falls Convention, "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions," Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, "Peculiar Institution," American Colonization Society, Nat Turner's Rebellion, William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator, American Anti-Slavery Society, Theodore Dwight Weld, Frederick Douglass,  "Gag Rule," Liberty Party, Free Soil Party

Lesson Resources:
Use the following resources to prepare for the exam on the Antebellum Reform Movements:
  • Antebellum Reform Movements Reading
  • 19th Century Reforms Video
  • Women in the 19th Century Video
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The Market Revolution

11/10/2014

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Learning Target:
I can describe the economic changes that took place in the United States from 1790 to 1860, & I can analyze their effects on the nation.

Critical Vocabulary:
“Black Forties,” Political Machines, “Tammany Hall,” “Know-Nothing” Party, Samuel Slater, Eli Whitney, Charles Goodyear, Samuel Morse, Elias Howe, Lowell Mills,Commonwealth v. Hunt, Preemption Act of 1830, Homestead Act, John Deere, Cyrus McCormick, “National Road,” Robert Fulton, Governor DeWitt Clinton, Erie Canal, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Clipper Ship, Pony Express

Lesson Resources:
Use the following resources to prepare for the exam on the Market Revolution:
  • The Market Revolution Reading
  • The Market Revolution Video
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