Writing-To-Win (Monday):

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Writing-To-Win (Monday)

• Break down the SSUSH8 by listing new words for
  the underlined words. Then, rewrite the standard
  with the new words you have listed. Finally, list
  3 I can statements.
• The student will explain the relationship between
  growing north-south divisions and westward
  expansion.
• 15 mins. to complete the assignment.

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SSUSH8 The student will explain the relationship
between growing north-south divisions and
westward expansion.

• Explain how slavery became a significant issue in
  American politics include the slave rebellion of
  Nat Turner and the rise of abolitionism (William
  Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, and the Grimke
  sisters).
• b. Explain the Missouri Compromise and the issue
  of slavery in western states and territories.

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Before the Standard

1. T or F The Civil War was fought over the issue
   of slavery.
2. T or F The Northern States were called
   Confederate and the Southern States were called
   Union.
3. T or F The Emancipation Proclamation freed all
   slaves from the bondage of involuntary servitude.
4. T or F Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves because
   he loved all mankind, Black or White.
5. T or F Lincoln was a Democrat because the
   Democratic Party was the political party that was
   formed to oppose slavery.

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Essential Question
Page 1

• How did slavery come to be a significant issue in
  American
• politics? (pg. 248-256)
• Include the uprising of Nat Turner and the rise
  of the Abolitionmovement via William Lloyd
  Garrison, Frederick Douglas, and the
  Grimkesisters.
• Create a chart like the one below in which you
  plot the names of the individuals above and their
  contribution to making slavery a significant
  political issue

Nat Turner
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglas
Grimke Sisters
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Slavery and the Southern Economy

• The South was mainly agricultural with very
  little manufacturing
• The main crops during the mid 1800s were rice and
  cotton, both which required extensive labor to
  produce
• Though slavery was prevalent in the South, the
  vast majority of Southerners did not own slaves

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Nat Turners Revolt

• Slave Codes put restrictions on slaves,
  preventing them from learning to read and write
  and restricting their rights
• Nat Turner, a Virginia slave, believed God had
  chosen him to lead a revolt
• Turner and his followers killed more than 50
  people before being caught
• Turners Revolt led to states
• passing even stricter codes
• and restrictions on both
• slaves and free African
• Americans

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Abolitionist

• Grimke Sisters South Carolina sisters who moved
  north to promote the abolitionist movement
• William Lloyd Garrison became one of the
  countrys leading abolitionist, publishing the
  pro-abolitionist newspaper the Liberator. He
  believed in complete emancipation
• Fredrick Douglas, a former
• slave from Maryland,
• published the abolitionist
• newspaper the North Star
• and an autobiography

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Essential Question
Page 2

• How did the Missouri Compromise affect the
  admittance of new states to the Union? (pg.
  222-223)
• What were the new criteria by which states were
  admitted?
• First - Identify the Missouri Compromise define
  the Missouri Compromisee.g. What was it?
• Next Describe the criteria by which new States
  were admitted into the Union per the Missouri
  Compromise
• Ex.
• Missouri Compromise blah blah blahblah.
• Criteria for Admittance States were admitted
  into the Unionblah blah
• blahblah blah.

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The Missouri Compromise

• In 1819 the U.S. consisted of 11 free and 11
  slave states
• Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state
  in 1819
• To off set the imbalance Maine applied for
  statehood as a free state
• The Missouri Compromise granted statehood to both
  free and slave states and set a boundary for
  which areas slavery could expand in to -
  Everything
  north of the line was free
  and everything south
  
  would be slave
• Why would the South agree
• not to expand slavery into
• the Unorganized Louisiana
• Territory?

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SSUSH8 The student will explain the relationship
between growing north-south divisions and
westward expansion.

• c. Describe the Nullification Crisis and the
  emergence of states rights ideology include the
  role of John C. Calhoun and development of
  sectionalism.
• d. Describe the war with Mexico and the Wilmot
  Proviso.
• e. Explain the Compromise of 1850.

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Essential Question

• What was the Nullification Crisis and what role
  did it play in the rise of states rights
  ideology? (pg. 230-232)
• What role did John C. Calhoun play in the
  development of sectionalism?
• (pg. 230-232)
• Create a Flow Chart on Page 3

Essential Question Goes Here Beginning /
Causes Middle / Crisis Effects / Outcomes

• Write you EQ _at_ the top of Page 3
• Your Flow Chartshould have 3 parts
• Beginning
• Middle
• End
• Use the Notes in thenext slides to fill-inyour
  chart

• On the back of Page 3
• Define Sectionalism
• Explain Calhouns role in growing
• sectionalism between the North South

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Nullification Crisis
SSUSH8c. Describe the Nullification Crisis and
the emergence of states rights ideology include
the role of John C. Calhoun and development of
sectionalism.

• Why would tariffs hurt Southern
  states like South Carolina more than Northern
  States?

• In the early 1800s South Carolinas economy began
  to weaken in part due to high government tariffs,
  or taxes, on imports
• In 1828 Congress passed another tariff, which
  many called the Tariff of Abominations
• South Carolina threatened to secede from the U.S.
  over the high tariffs

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Nullification Crisis

• Vice-President John C. Calhoun, from South
  Carolina, supported the idea of nullification, or
  the right of the states to declare federal laws
  null, or void
• He declared that states had this power of
  nullification because the states had created the
  federal government

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Nullification Crisis

• In 1832, Congress passed yet another tariff law
• In November 1832, South Carolina declared the
  tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null, and refused to pay
  the federal governments taxes on imports

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Nullification Crisis

• President Andrew Jackson ordered a warship to
  Charleston, viewing the nullification as a
  treasonous act
• To ease tensions, Congress passed a bill that
  gradually lowered tariffs
• South Carolina repealed its nullification of
  tariffs and the issue was temporarily solved
• 
  How was the Nullification
  Crisis
• 
  
  an example of sectionalism?

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Bell Ringer

• Benjamin Franklin was one of the leaders of the
  American Revolution. He was also a writer and
  publisher. He used his printing press to share
  wise sayings that he hoped would help his
  readers. Some of these sayings he wrote himself.
  Some he adapted from other sources.
• Here are some of the sayings Franklin published.
  Read them carefully then say what virtues you
  think Franklin admired write each virtue down in
  order of each saying.
• A lie stands on one leg, the truth on two
• One today is worth two tomorrows
• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead
• A quarrelsome man has no good neighbors
• Up, sluggard, and waste not life in the grave
  will be sleeping enough
• Early to bed and early to rise makes a man
  healthy, wealthy, wise
• An investment in knowledge always pays the best
  interest
• Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do
  today

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Essential Question
Page 4

• Why was the War with Mexico fought?
• (pg. 288-297)
• What was the Wilmot Proviso the Compromise
• of 1850? (pg. 306-309)

• Alternatively you may want to describe the
  Wilmot Proviso Compromise of 1850 on the
  BACKof Page 4

Essential Question Goes Here War With
Mexico Causes
Effects Wilmot Proviso Compromise
of1850

• Create a C/E chartof the War w/ Mexico
• Next create a sectionfor the Wilmot Proviso
  the Compromise of 1850

• For both the WilmotProviso the Compromiseof
  1850 answer the following
• What?
• Who?
• Why?
• Answer based on notes /or Handouts

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War With Mexico
SSUSH8d. Describe the war with Mexico and the
Wilmot Proviso.

• James Polk become President in 1845, promising to
  annex Texas, and Oregon.
• The U.S. annexes Texas, causing a boundary
  dispute with Mexico.
• Polk ordered the army into the disputed area
  where Mexican troops opened fire on the Americans
• Polk then declared war on Mexico, claiming they
  were the aggressors

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War With Mexico

• The American army is ordered into Mexico, and out
  to California
• Before the troops can reach California, a group
  of American settlers revolt and take the area
  naming it the Bear Flag Republic
• In 1847, the U.S. Army enters Mexico City causing
  the Mexicans to surrender and ending the war

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War With Mexico

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war, giving
  the U.S. a vast amount of land in the Southwest
• The U.S. now stretched
• from the Atlantic to the
• Pacific Ocean
• Why would this treaty cause problems
  with the
• Slavery issue?

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Wilmot Proviso

• Proposed in 1846, that any territory gained from
  Mexico would not be allowed to have slaves
• The proposal upset Southerners, and though it
  passed in the House, but the Senate refused to
  vote on it
• The Wilmot Proviso continued a north-south
  sectionalism divided over the slavery issue

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Wilmot Proviso

• To counter the Wilmot Proviso and to ease
  tension, a proposal was made to allow the new
  territories to decide for themselves on the
  slavery issue, an idea called popular sovereignty
• California applied for statehood in 1849,
  threatening to break the balance of free and
  slave states
• Henry Clay proposed a resolution which became
  known as the Compromise of 1850

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Compromise of 1850
SSUSH8e. Explain the Compromise of 1850.

• Though the Compromise initially had little
  support, it was passed, by dividing it into
  smaller bills, allowing Congress to vote on each
  issue separately easing the tension, for the time
  being, over slavery