04: Market Revolution

04: Market Revolution

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Introduction - Missouri Compromise: Primary Documents in American History - Research Guides at Library of Congress
Introduction - Missouri Compromise: Primary Documents in American History - Research Guides at Library of Congress
This one sentence from the Library of Congress explains the Missouri Compromise as something that "was passed" in compromise. The complete story of the legislation and parliamentary manuevers that became known as the Missouri Compromise was nothing like that - it was not, as such, a compromise - but it is described that way. Why not have students, or their teachers test this one sentence - is it fair?
Introduction - Missouri Compromise: Primary Documents in American History - Research Guides at Library of Congress
Election of 1828 | Dirtiest Presidential Campaign Ever
Election of 1828 | Dirtiest Presidential Campaign Ever
Title says it all - this is the sort of reading that would capture student's interest as a primer to a fact checking enterprise - are the statements in this article true?
Election of 1828 | Dirtiest Presidential Campaign Ever
The Domestic Slave Trade - Edward Baptist, Cornel
The Domestic Slave Trade - Edward Baptist, Cornel
This 8.5 minute video features Edward Baptist explaining the Domestic Slave Trade. Although students might have trouble keeping their attention through it, teachers would be well-served by learning the content Baptist presents in order to present it to students in their own voice
The Domestic Slave Trade - Edward Baptist, Cornel
Evergreen Plantation - Historic Site
Evergreen Plantation - Historic Site
One of the few surviving thoroughly intact plantations (slave labor camps) in the United States, the Evergreen Plantation still has cabins used to house enslaved African-Americans. The pictures, articles lesson and slavery database are all helpful to teaching the complete story of a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana
Evergreen Plantation - Historic Site
Brooklyn Museum: Catherine Greene - nope she didn't
Brooklyn Museum: Catherine Greene - nope she didn't
How many teachers think they are correcting the taught narrative canon by telling their students that Eli Whitney did not really invent the cotton gin? It might feel better to explain that it was actually invented by a woman who never got the credit - but what does the evidence say. The Brooklyn Museum says that she did not
Brooklyn Museum: Catherine Greene - nope she didn't
Student Notebooks | Slavery & the UVA School of Law
Student Notebooks | Slavery & the UVA School of Law
Notebooks from students at the University of Virginia Law School reveal how property laws related to slavery were taught and learned before the Civil War
Student Notebooks | Slavery & the UVA School of Law
A son of the forest : Apess, William, 1798-1839 :
A son of the forest : Apess, William, 1798-1839 :
One of the first autobiographies published by a Native American and was published partly in reaction to advocates of Indian Removal, including President Andrew Jackson
A son of the forest : Apess, William, 1798-1839 :