Acting out History

Acting out History
Students performing Bill of Rights Skits

Monday, March 21, 2011

Resource List for Tuesday March, 22nd (See below for weekly agenda).

Use the Primary and Secondary Resources below for each event/issue leading to the Civil War

3/5ths Compromise (1787):
Primary Source: Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, Number 3 (see your book on pg 233)
Textbook pages: 204-205

The Missouri Compromise (1820):
Newspaper Editorials: Get document from Mr. Wells
Textbook pages: 323-24, 436-37, 447, 624

The Compromise of 1850:
Political Map: Early 1850s
Textbook pages: 434, 439

The Fugitive Slave Act (1950):
Primary Document - See Thomas Jefferson document and Reward for Runaway Slave
Textbook pages: 441-42

The Underground Railroad:
Map of the Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania
Click here for Slave Narratives about escaping to freedom
Textbook pages: 406, 418 - 421 (abolitionists); 422 - 424 (Underground Railroad), 429, 442

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854):
Political Cartoon (Primary Sources): "Little Stephen A. Trying to Climb a Very High Chair", "Forcing Slavery Down the Throats of a Freesoiler"
Textbook pages: 442-443, "Bleeding Kansas" on 444

Dred Scott Surpreme Court Case (1857):
Editorials from Newspapers of the time, Frank Leslie's Newspaper
Textbook pages: 446-7, 505, 624

John Brown / Harper's Ferry, VA (1859):
John Brown's Last Speech (Primary Sources)
Political Cartoon (Primary Sources): On This Day..., "Premature Movement" - from class
Textbook pages: 444 (compare picture to cartoon) and 448