8.9 Slavery

Part 1 - The Cause

PROJECT Title: The Civil War NEWS CAST

Part 1 - The Cause April 14^th, 16^th, 21^st, 23^rd

. The Cause - You will report on one of the CAUSES of the Civil War, as well as conduct an 'interview' with one of the people associated with that event.

Who was involved? What happened at the event? How did the event end? What could each party involved gain or lose? What were the effects on the country and other people?
GROUP 1 The Compromise of 1850 - Henry Clay
GROUP 2The Kansas Nebraska Act / Stephen Douglas & Franklin Pierce
GROUP 3“Bleeding Kansas” & Harper's Ferry/John Brown & Senator Charles Sumner
GROUP 4 The Dred Scott Decision / Dred Scott & chief Justice Roger Taney
GROUP 5 Lincoln Douglas Debates & Election of 1860 /Abraham Lincoln & Jefferson Davis

8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

Describe the leaders of the movement (e.g., John Quincy Adams and his proposed constitutional amendment, John Brown and the armed resistance, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass).
Discuss the abolition of slavery in early state constitutions.
Describe the significance of the Northwest Ordinance in education and in the banning of slavery in new states north of the Ohio River.
Discuss the importance of the slavery issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and California's admission to the union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.
Analyze the significance of the States' Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay's role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858).
Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and economic opportunities.