PreCivil War
Pre Civil War Unit
Seven in class activities and readings.  The readings should be completed by the end of the unit.  Some days there will be class time.

Flight for freedom - Play the Flight for freedom game after the test.

Station 1- Life on the Plantation and in the Factory. 

In this lesson you will compare and contrast factory life in the North with Plantation Life in the South.   – Group Assignment

Read through the four documents found in the room or find at:http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/whole_cloth/u2ei/u2materials/eiPac9.html 

Answer the following questions for notes as you read through the Primary Sources:  Life in the North and South

1.     What is the difference and similar with the organization of time on the plantation and factory?

2.    What are punishments like on both?

3.    What are rules the plantation and factory?

4.    How are workers cared for?

ASSIGNMENT: Make a Venn Diagram Comparing the plant and factory life.  3 examples in each section

Station 2- Discrimination in the North and South.

 In lesson 2 you will look at the discrimination found in the North and the South during the 1830’s.  Compare rights of African Americans before the Civil War in the North and the South. – Group Assignment

Read through the “Status of African American in American during the 1830’s packet” .  Determine whether the quotation was from the North or the South on a separate piece of paper as a group.  Turn in answers to Mr. C when you are finished. 

First, meet as a group and look at one quote that you disagree on.  Explain why you disagree. Then as a group decide what was the most surprising quote found in the packet and why you found it the most surprising. 
One answer per group

Station 3- Abolitionists and fighting against slavery. 

In this lesson you will learn about the men and women who fought against slavery, but will focus on the life of John Brown.  Must view using google chrome.
You will then answer one the following one MBC Campus discussion about John Brown.  

Station 4- The Government and Slavery-

Group Assignment

GO To: Discovery Education as a group.  Watch Video and answer the writing Prompt.  One group member should turn this in, but all members should have their names at the top of the paragraph. 

Watch the appropriate video clips that go with each of the following. In your notes write a short summary for each item. 

1.     3/5 Clause

2.    Tariff of Nullifications

3.    Missouri Compromise of 1820

4.    Compromise of 1850

5.    1854 Kansas and Nebraska Act

6.    Dred Scot Case

7.    Lincoln Douglas Debate

Next, pick one the one item you think had the greatest influence on the starting the civil war.  In a paragraph write why you picked it and how you would have changed it to prevent the Civil War. 

Station 5 – Map

Do the map “United States Before the Civil War”.  Everyone does this individually.


Station 6- Looking at Primary Sources. 

Read through the primary sources found at http://docsteach.org/activities/228 

In the blank boxes Objectives:

1.     Select a perspective: Abolitionist or Pro-Slave Southerner

2.    Analyze primary source documents from this perspective in order to share your opinions on important events

3.    Summarize, in your opinion, which events were critical to the beginning of the Civil War

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In the notes section of the send email place all names of the people in your group.