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Period 5: 1844-1877 - Disunion, Civil War, and Reconstruction


School Closure Review Session

End of Period 4, Start of Period 5 Video HERE

Rest of Period 5 Video Here (Coming 4/3/2020)

Period 5 Curricular Framework Document

Period 5 Sample Short Answer Questions (Coming 4/3/2020)

Curricular framework with our annotations

Hutchison's Classes Activities: March 5, 2020
Hutchison's Classes Activities: March 6, 2020

Content Block Activity Files

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  1. Scored Discussion #1 - Manifest Destiny Reading:
    1. Reading selection by Howard Zinn from A People's History of the United States:
      1. ​"We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God"
    2. Directions for Discussion Pre-write (These are DIFFERENT from last time!)
    3. Student Sample (NOT perfect, but a good start - Problems include the fact that the student did not define the terms they selected and did not write questions for the in class discussion)
    4. Discussion Scoring Standards 
  2. Rock, Paper, Scissors by Jill Lepore
  3. Irish Immigration Documents
  4. Slave Narrative Excerpts
  5. Civil War Webquest​
  6. Women in the Civil War
  7. The Cult of Domesticity
  8. ​Republican Party Platforms, 1856 & 1860
  9. Lincoln Letters
  10. Secession Ordinances
  11. Historiography of Reconstruction
  12. Fourth of July, 1876 Activity Documents
  13. Unit Theme Summary form

Skills Activity Files

historiography_of_the_mexican_american_war.pdf
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mexican_war_-_justified_-_eysturlid.pdf
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mexican_war_-_justified_-_graebner.pdf
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mexican_war_-_not_justified_-_acuna.pdf
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mexican_war_-_not_justified_-_hospodor.pdf
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new_perspectives_on_slavery_charts.pdf
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new_perspectives_on_slavery_questions.pdf
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1850_compromisea.pdf
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flow_chart_leading_to_the_civil_war_blank.pdf
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radical_reconstruction_sheg_edited.pdf
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reconstruction_sheg.pdf
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happ_practice_lincoln_sac.docx
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Document Recitation Block Files

osullivan_-_manifest_destiny_speech.pdf
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civil_disobedience.pdf
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frederick_douglass_on_the_fourth_of_july.pdf
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rise_of_the_cotton_kingdom.pdf
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george_fitzhugh_-_blessings_of_slavery.pdf
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david_walker’s_appeal.pdf
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hinton_helper_-_impending_crisis.pdf
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             *NOTE:  It was a criminal offense to own "Impending Crisis in the South." in North Carolina!
uncle_toms_cabin.pdf
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sullivan_ballou_letter.pdf
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the_emancipation_proclamation.pdf
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voices_of_reconstruction.pdf
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Old PowerPoints for Reference

manifest_destiny.pdf
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slavery___sectionalism.pdf
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disunion_leads_to_war.pdf
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reconstruction.pdf
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manifest_destiny_ghhs.pptx
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civil_war_backup.pptx
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Targeted Standards

NAT-2.0 ​Explain how interpretations of the Constitution and debates over rights, liberties, and definitions of citizenship have affected American values, politics, and society.
CUL-4.0 ​Explain how different group identities, including racial, ethnic, class, and regional identities, have emerged and changed over time.
MIG-1.0​ Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America and, later, the United States, and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S. society.
​MIG-2.0​ Analyze causes of internal migration and patterns of settlement in what would become the United States, and explain how migration has affected American life. 
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