Bleeding Kansas  & Election of 1852 - 56 - 60

Watch on President Pierce 6 min video  and the election of 1852:

Turn to page 279 and look at the Kansas-Nebraska Act    map   

1.  Which state borders Kansas Territory to the east?  Missouri

2.  What was slavery to become north of the 36~ 30` line? inoperative and void

3.  How would the settlers decide in Kansas about the issue of slavery? vote or popular sovereignty

In 1854, the Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed settlers in those states to vote on the slavery question. As a result, Kansas and Nebraska became the sites of violent clashes between antislavery and pro slavery groups. American painter John Steuart Curry's mural, Tragic Prelude, depicts abolitionist John Brown during the "Bleeding Kansas" decade of the 1850s.

Watch 17 min video on John Brown:

    Republican Party is organized in 1854
Watch the video on President Buchanan and the election of 1856: Questions: Why was President Buchanan maligned as the worst President of the U.S.? seen as a supporter of the south and hater of the north, gay?  he didn't stop South Carolina from seceding from the Union.
 

    Read p 280-281  How did Judge Taney
                rule in The Dred Scott Case? 1. Dred Scott was the property of owner  2.  Supreme Court also recognized slavery as valid institution, 3.  Court declared the Missouri Compromise which barred slavery north of the 36 30 was unconstitutional    More on the unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise

Watch Dred Scott 4 min video:

    What happened in John Brown's raid
    of Harper's Ferry, Virginia? p 282 John Brown and 18 men captured a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in a mad scheme to arm the slaves, establish his own repubblic, and then invade the South eventually freeing all the slaves.  He and his men were eventually killed, or captured then hanged

    Who wins the Election of 1860? Lincoln
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Watch President Lincoln and the election of 1860 7 min video :

Events for President-elect Lincoln:

1.  South Carolina leaves the Union

2.  The Confederacy is organized

3.  Jefferson Davis becomes the President of the Confederacy.

Lesson Objectives Students will learn OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to: 1. list 2. explain the difference between 3. describe the 4. chart on a map the 5. define the terms 6. Explain the significance of Knowledge: Recall of data. Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words. Application:
Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the workplace. Analysis:
Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.  Synthesis:
Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Evaluation:
Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.