Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – Chapter 7
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Chapter 7 Introductory Essay: 1844-1860
Essay - 6400 Words
Essay
6400 Words
Why did sectionalism increase during the Antebellum era?
John O’Sullivan, “Annexation,” 1845
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Activity
40 Min
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To Go to War with Mexico?
Essay - 2458 Words
Essay
2458 Words
By the end of this section, you will explain the causes and effects of westward expansion from 1844 to 1877.
Debating the Mexican-American War, May 1846
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Activity
40 Min
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Migration West
Essay - 2007 Words
Essay
2007 Words
By the end of this section, you will explain the causes and effects of westward expansion from 1844 to 1877.
To What Extent Were Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion Justified?
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Activity
40 Min
Did the positives outweigh the negatives as the concept of Manifest Destiny drove western expansion during the nineteenth century? A. James Fuller and Andrew Fisher debate this question.
To What Extent Were Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion Justified Graphic Organizer
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Activity
40 Min
A handout to accompany the scholarly claims made in the corresponding Point-Counterpoint readings that helps student synthesize the claims put forth.
Art Analysis: American Progress by John Gast, 1872
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Activity
40 Min
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Nativist Riots and the Know-Nothing Party
Essay - 2339 Words
Essay
2339 Words
How did immigration lead to nativist backlash in America?
Frank Lecouvreur, From East Prussia to the Golden Gate, 1851–1871
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Activity
40 Min
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Dame Shirley (Mrs. Clappe), Letters from a Western Pioneer, 1851–1852
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Activity
40 Min
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The Free Soil Party
Essay - 2377 Words
Essay
2377 Words
What antislavery parties existed in the 19th century?
Dred Scott v. Sandford DBQ Primary Sources
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Activity
Five primary sources that explore the background of and the Supreme Court opinions in the Dred Scott decision.
Thomas Sims and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Essay - 2768 Words
Essay
2768 Words
How did the Fugitive Slave Act galvanize abolitionism in Boston?
Fugitive Slave Act, 1850
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Activity
40 Min
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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Essay - 2508 Words
Essay
2508 Words
Investigates Harriet Stowe's contributions to abolitionism.
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
Essay - 1572 Words
Essay
1572 Words
Investigates Harriet Tubman's role in the fight to end slavery.
John Brown and Harpers Ferry
Essay - 2645 Words
Essay
2645 Words
Was John Brown a righteous crusader or violent radical?
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman?” 1851
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Activity
40 Min
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John Brown Background Essay and Timeline
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Activity
Resources to help students explore the question of whether John Brown’s use of violence to achieve his goal was justified.
John Brown Primary Sources
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Activity
Seven primary sources that showcase the various responses to John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
Graphic Organizer: John Brown Primary Sources
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Activity
A graphic organizer to help students examine the methods John Brown chose to carry out this goal of destroying slavery and ask them to decided if he was a hero or a villain?
William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass on Abolition, 1845–1852
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Activity
40 Min
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Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845
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Activity
40 Min
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Negro Spirituals
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Activity
40 Min
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The Compromise of 1850
Essay - 2573 Words
Essay
2573 Words
By the end of this section, you will explain the similarities and differences in how regional attitudes affected federal policy in the period after the Mexican–American War.
Daniel Webster, “7th of March,” 1850
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40 Min
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858
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Activity
40 Min
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Kansas-Nebraska Act and Bleeding Kansas
Essay - 2457 Words
Essay
2457 Words
Explores the Kansas-Nebraska Act and sectionalism.
Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks
Essay - 2468 Words
Essay
2468 Words
Explores the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor.
The Election of 1860
Essay - 2570 Words
Essay
2570 Words
How did the election of 1860 lead to the Civil War?
Secession of Southern States DBQ Packet
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Activity
Four primary sources that explore the progression toward Southern succession.
South Carolina Secession Debate, 1860
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Activity
40 Min
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Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan
Essay - 2383 Words
Essay
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Why did the U.S. want to open trade with Japan?
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855
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Activity
40 Min
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1860 Electoral Map and The President’s Inaugural by Thomas Nast
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Activity
Images that explore the progression toward Southern succession.
Henry David Thoreau, “Slavery in Massachusetts,” 1854
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Activity
40 Min
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Immigration Activities and Primary Sources
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Four activities and six primary sources to help students explore the push and pull factors that caused immigrants to come to the United States in the 1800s.
Art Analysis: Hudson River School Landscape Paintings, 1836–1868
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Activity
40 Min
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Immigration to America | BRI’s Homework Help Series
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Video
5 Min
The rise in immigration to the United States in the 1840's altered the economic, cultural, and political climate of the nation in the first half of the 19th century.
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