06: Expansion and Sectionalism

06: Expansion and Sectionalism

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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Comprehensive, ship-by-ship tally of slave ships. It would not take more than a few moments for students to click through the ship records and review the number of slaves loaded on to ships in Africa and the number delivered to the Americas. Ask them to imagine what it would be like to trace their family tree back to this record. Share the story of Alex Haley who had to do this research long before the internet.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Disunion Lesson - Role Play
Disunion Lesson - Role Play
From Civil War Trust. This Missouri Compromise lesson includes character descriptions for representatives from every state, a chart of generalizations of free and slave states and instructions how to implement debate. This deserves more investigation.
Disunion Lesson - Role Play
Lewis & Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition
Lewis & Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition
An interactive site that with you choosing to follow an interactive map where you will discover people and artifacts along your path. Once you have completed the map exploration you can learn more by choosing the themes category or view their image gallery.
Lewis & Clark: The National Bicentennial Exhibition
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives - YouTube
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives - YouTube
Unchained Memories is a riveting compilation of more than forty narratives drawn from interviews with former slaves conducted in the 1930s by the government's Works Progress Administration. The book is an adaptation of HBO's documentary special for 2003, also titled Unchained Memories
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives - YouTube
David Walker - The David Walker Memorial Project
David Walker - The David Walker Memorial Project
Does the author of one of the most incendiary abolitionists documents deserve a memorial. Teachers can frame a lesson around this question using this site, or simply use it to learn more of Walker's Appeal and ways it can be used in the classroom. Check out link to primary documents
David Walker - The David Walker Memorial Project
Telling the Story of Slavery | The New Yorker
Telling the Story of Slavery | The New Yorker
12 minute video describing the Whitney Plantation in Louisiana, one of the only museums in the country that memorializes slavery. It also highlights the wealthy lawyer who funded the museum. This does more than touch on the topic of history, it introduces students to the manner in which we decide to encounter it. It highlights also the manner in which slavery permeated the greater society and supported all levels of the government.
Telling the Story of Slavery | The New Yorker
Children per woman that survived childhood vs those that died in childhood - Our World in Data
Children per woman that survived childhood vs those that died in childhood - Our World in Data
Imagine living in a world in which 20% of the children die before the age of 5. Teachers teaching about that world should not ignore this reality while investing significant instructional time in presidents, politics, and economics. If significance is the metric that brings content into the curriculum - what could be more significant than 20% of the children dying before the age of five?
Children per woman that survived childhood vs those that died in childhood - Our World in Data
Slavery and the University of Virginia
Slavery and the University of Virginia
This is a 7th grader's school project on slavery in her home town, required by school but inspired by the white supremacist's march through Chancellorsville. Teachers assigning web sites or allowing the choice of web sites in their classes should share this with their students.
Slavery and the University of Virginia
The Plantation in Brooklyn: Nate Salsbury's Black America Show |
The Plantation in Brooklyn: Nate Salsbury's Black America Show |
Would you believe that there were live-entertainment performances in the 1890s that depicted slave life in the "Old South" as a carefree, simplistic rural life? Students should know that they are learning about an era of history that was actively misrepresented for the entertainment of northerners. How does this shape mythic understandings of American history?
The Plantation in Brooklyn: Nate Salsbury's Black America Show |
The Diary Of John Quincy Adams 1794-1845 :
The Diary Of John Quincy Adams 1794-1845 :
This link is a search result for every time the word "duel" appears in John Quincy Adam's diary. Teachers should take a day off from lectures, slides, notes, and essays and just have the students look through these references, choose one, and search for more names and information. What do they find? What questions do they have? Why do we teach as if these events never happened?
The Diary Of John Quincy Adams 1794-1845 :
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor | Speaker | TED - Why it is so hard to talk about the N-word
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor | Speaker | TED - Why it is so hard to talk about the N-word
Elizabeth Pryor is a well-regarded scholar on the history and etymology of the N-word so this 20 minutes TED talk should be considered by teachers trying to engage students in confronting a difficult conversation. It is an especially useful place to start for teachers who want to engage the topic of race with students but do not know where to start
Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor | Speaker | TED - Why it is so hard to talk about the N-word
19thc Shipping Posters - a photoset on Flickr
19thc Shipping Posters - a photoset on Flickr
Great collection of Clipper ship trade cards that were issued by dispatch lines to advertise specific voyages of clipper ships from one port (usually New York or Boston) to another (usually San Francisco). They were distributed primarily during the late 1850s and early 1860s
19thc Shipping Posters - a photoset on Flickr
Antislavery: Digital History
Antislavery: Digital History
This chapter examines the growth of antislavery thought, the colonization movement, the emergence of immediatist abolition, and political antislavery.
Antislavery: Digital History
Reformers versus Residents in Five Points: A Role Play
Reformers versus Residents in Five Points: A Role Play
In this activity students learn about the religious, class, and ethnic tensions between reformers and residents in the working-class Irish immigrant neighborhood of Five Points. Students research roles of a Protestant reformer and two Irish women debating whether the reformer should send Irish children to live with upper-class parents. This activity accompanies the film Five Points: New York's Irish Working Class in the 1850s, but parts of it can be completed without the film.
Reformers versus Residents in Five Points: A Role Play
Two Views of a Dead Rabbit
Two Views of a Dead Rabbit
Forget "Crips" and "Bloods", with a name like "Dead Rabbits", the gangs of the 19th century dwarf those of the 20th. This short essay with two images can be used as a quick lesson
Two Views of a Dead Rabbit
Dealing With Sins of the Forefathers - washingtonpost.com
Dealing With Sins of the Forefathers - washingtonpost.com
Descendents of Roger Taney and Dred Scott comment on the removal of a statute of Taney in Frederick Maryland. Check the date of this article and you'll find that the seeds to the removal of the Confederate flag from South Carolina's capitol are here also.
Dealing With Sins of the Forefathers - washingtonpost.com
Lesson Plans - John Brown and the Underground Railroad
Lesson Plans - John Brown and the Underground Railroad
This lesson asks students to analyze John Brown's attitudes and actions against slavery and the differences between his views and those of other people who were active in the Underground Railroad and the abolitionist movement. Students will write journal entries pretending they are Underground Railroad conductors who have adopted John Brown's values and tactics. They will write additional paragraphs explaining whether they think they would have been more in agreement with Brown or with pacifist abolitionists.
Lesson Plans - John Brown and the Underground Railroad