THURSDAY--MARCH 3

US History
EQ:
How have criminal justice policies established in the Jim Crow era impacting African Americans today?

CW:
Unit 2 study guide
video from Vice/HBO on prison


HW:
Read pp. 460-65
factors that brought immigrants to the US
Ellis Island; Angel Island
nativism
anti-Asian sentiment
Chinese Exclusion Act--1882
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IB HOTA
EQ:
What were the economic, social, and political impacts of slavery?

CW:
review notes on abolitionists on Mexican-American War (1846-47)
video clip: war with Mexico and the Compromise of 1850
video clip from Many Rivers--Underground RR
notes/discussion: McPherson reading--resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin and its social/political impacts
video clip/reading from The Aboltionists--What the Fourth of July Means to a Slave--Frederick Douglass
Anthony Burns' return to slavery (1854)
notes: Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and its impact on the slavery debate
birth of the Republican Party--1854
1856: "Bleeding Kansas"--clip from The Abolitionists
video clip from Many Rivers--Margaret Garner's horrible decision

HW:
Read pp. 390-94
Start the reading at the Election of 1856
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