Today's Agenda

Content Standards: HS.UH.I.UE.2
Gather information and evidence from credible sources representing a variety of perspectives relevant to compelling and/or supporting questions in U.S. history.
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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: 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: America's Founding Practice Questions
2. Citizenship Question: How many amendments does the Constitution have? 
   A. 10 
   B. 27 
   C. 36 
   D. 50
3. Guided Instruction: On the Brink of War
4. ​Reflection Question: What new political party was founded in the 1850s in order to oppose the spread of slavery into the Western territories?