Sept. 30-Oct 1

EQ:
How did slavery bring about disunion and the Civil War?

CW:
UNIT 1 STUDY GUIDE
discuss: what does activism look like? 
video clip: Sept. 20 climate strike in NYC
discussion/notes: 
American Colonization Society
abolitionists fight against slavery--gradualists vs. immediatists
William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe
American Anti-Slavery Society
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Mexican-American War of 1846 and the Compromise of 1850
video clip from The Abolitionists on the Comp of 1850
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video clips from Many Rivers:
Underground RR
video clip: Harriet Tubman
video clip: Harriet Tubman--funny
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notes: the impacts of the Fugitive Slave Act--1850
video clips from "The Abolitionists":
Uncle Tom's Cabin and its social/political impacts

HW:
finish 8:1 reading
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
John Brown
Bleeding Kansas
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Read Ch. 8:2
skim the election of 1856
read: Dred Scott decision
Lincoln-Douglas debates-1858
John Brown's Raid-1859