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: Building the New Nation Practice Questions
2. Citizenship Question: What did the Declaration of Independence do? 
   A. declared freedom for the slaves 
   B. declared equal rights for women 
   C. declared freedom from Great Britain 
   D. declared an end to the war with Great Britain
3. Guided Instruction: On the Brink of War
4. ​Reflection Question: How did Southern states respond to Lincoln's election in 1860?