"There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live..."

--John Adams

Friday, January 29, 2021

Week 22: Feb. 1-5, 2k21

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Study Guide for Test on Day 3 this week
  • What were the major reforms of the mid 19th century?
  • What were the major inventions of the mid 19th century and how did they make life easier?
  • All the Road to Civil War Q's above
  • John Gast's American Progress painting details...know as much about the painting as you can!
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Day 1 and 2
In Class:  1840-1860: The Road to Civil War -- What were the contributing factors to the Civil War?

William Henry Harrison's Presidency...Short

James K. Polk 36:50-44:20

Harriet Trailer

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
  1. How did westward expansion slowly divide the United States?
  2. How did the Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo further divide the nation?
  3. What were the details of Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850.  Was it a true compromise?
  4. What was the Underground Railroad?
  5. What was Uncle Tom's Cabin about and how was it received by the readers?
  6. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act tear the nation in half and what did it do to the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
  7. What political party was created because of the Kansas-Nebraska act and what was their objective as a party?
  8. Who was John Brown and what did he do in Kansas?
  9. What happened in Congress in 1856?  What kind of message did this send to the nation about the issue of slavery?
  10. What was the verdict of the Dred Scott Decision in 1857?
  11. What phrase captured the nation in the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858? Who won the debates?
  12. What did John Brown do in 1859 in Harper's Ferry, Va?
  13. How did Abraham Lincoln win the Election of 1860 and what was the result of his election?
HW:  Test on the Era of Reform, Industry in the Mid 19th Century, and the Road to Civil War on Feb. 4/5 Day 3 

Day 3
In Class:  Test on the Era of Reform, Industry in the Mid 19th Century, and the Road to Civil War on Feb. 4/5 Day 3 
HW:  None!