Today's Agenda

AP Learning Objective:
Explain how regional differences related to slavery caused tension in the years leading up to the Civil War.

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: Nat Turner’s Rebellion, Underground Railroad, Harriett Tubman, “Fire-Eaters,” Stephen A. Douglas, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Act, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 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

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: Create Trading Cards for John Brown and Abraham Lincoln.
2. Citizenship Question: Who vetoes bills? 
   A. the President 
   B. the Majority Leader 
   C. the President Pro Tempore 
   D. the Speaker of the House of Representatives
3. Guided Instruction: On the Brink of War
4. Independent Learning: On the Brink of War Sketchnotes Activity
5. ​Reflection Question: 

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Homework: On the Brink of War Reading