| American/U.S. History |
| Section 4: The Constitution Tested - Nationalism and Sectionalism (Civil War) |
| FACTORS UNIFYING THE
UNITED STATES: 1789-1861 |
| FIRST AND SECOND TWO-PARTY SYSTEMS - MARKET ECONOMY AND INTERSTATE COMMERCE - MARSHALL COURT |
| HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Building Unity" |
| Click here for a large library of American history-themed printable readings with questions. |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| CONSTITUTIONAL STRESS AND CRISIS |
| DEVELOPING SECTIONAL DIFFERENCES AND PHILOSOPHIES OF GOVERNMENT - EQUAL RIGHTS AND JUSTICE - GREAT CONSTITUTIONAL DEBATES |
| HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Extension of Slavery" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Latin America and the Monroe Doctrine" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Factionalism and Political Parties" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Nullification Crisis" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Bank Fight" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Whigs, Democrats, and Know-Nothings" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Stirrings of Reform" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Women's Rights" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Two Americas" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Lands of Promise" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Slavery and Sectionalism" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Abolitionists" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Texas and the War with Mexico" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Compromise of 1850" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "A Divided Nation" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Lincoln, Douglas, and Brown" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The 1860 Election" |
| Click here for a large library of American history-themed printable readings with questions. |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| VIDEO LINK: "Frederick Douglass" - 43:58 in length - Courtesy of Biography Channel and Hulu |
| WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| DOCUMENT: Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861 |
| TERRITORIAL EXPANSION THROUGH DIPLOMACY, MIGRATION, ANNEXATION, AND WAR: MANIFEST DESTINY |
| LOUISIANA PURCHASE - EXPLORING AND SETTLING THE WEST - SPANISH, MEXICAN, AND NATIVE AMERICAN WEST - MOTIVES AND IMPLICATIONS OF EXPANSION AND WESTERN SETTLEMENT - POLITICS OF WESTERN EXPANSION - IMPACT OF WESTERN EXPANSION UPON MEXICANS AND NATIVE AMERICANS |
| HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Causes and Effects - "War with Mexico" - Short- and long-term causes and effects chart |
| HANDOUT: DBQ/Examining Primary Sources: "Andrew Jackson's Address to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830)" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Louisiana and Britain" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Westward" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "The Frontier, the West, and the American Experience" |
| HANDOUT: Reading with Questions - "Texas and the War with Mexico" |
| HANDOUT: Word Search Puzzle - "Native Americans and Westward Expansion" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "The Jacksonian Era" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "America’s Manifest Destiny and War with Mexico" |
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| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| VIDEO LINK: "The New Echota Traditional Cultural Properties Study" (Georgia) - 25 minutes - Archaeology Channel |
| WEBSITE LINKS |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| DOCUMENT: Monroe Doctrine (1823) |
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| THE CONSTITUTION IN JEOPARDY: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR |
|
UNITED STATES SOCIETY DIVIDED - WARTIME ACTIONS |
| HANDOUTS |
| HANDOUT: Causes and Effects - "American Civil War" - Short-term and long-term causes and effects chart |
| Reading with Questions - "Secession and Civil War" |
| Reading with Questions - "Western Advance, Eastern Stalemate" |
| Reading with Questions - "Gettysburg to Appomattox" |
| Reading with Questions - "With Malice toward None" |
| Reading with Questions - "Radical Reconstruction" |
| Reading with Questions - "The End of Reconstruction" |
| Reading with Questions - "The Civil War and New Patterns of American Politics" |
| HANDOUT: T-Chart - "Strengths and Weaknesses: North against South" |
| HANDOUT: T-Chart - "Pivotal Events in the Civil War" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "Conflict over Slavery" |
| HANDOUT: Writing Exercises - "The American Civil War" |
| Click here for a large library of American history-themed printable readings with questions. |
| MAPS and PICTURES |
| POWERPOINTS |
| VIDEO LINKS |
| VIDEO LINK: "Ghosts of Green Bottom" (West Virginia) - 28 minutes - Archaeology Channel |
| WEBSITE LINKS |
| WEBSITE LINK: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park |
| WEBSITE LINK: The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (University of Virginia Civil War Archive) |
| WEBSITE LINK: Clara Barton National Historic Site Flash Player Presentation (National Park Service) |
| MISCELLANEOUS |
| DOCUMENT: President Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (1861) |
| DOCUMENT: Emancipation Proclamation (1863) |
| DOCUMENT: Gettysburg Address (1863) |
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