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UNIT 5: TESTING THE NEW NATION

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LESSON 1: MANIFEST DESTINY

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We will evaluate the extent to which the nineteenth century belief in “Manifest Destiny” led to the growing sectional conflict in the United States.
​Class Materials:
  • Activity: Manifest Destiny Map
  • Pear Deck: Manifest Destiny
    • Document Study: Manifest Destiny
    • ​Frayer Model: The Polk Administration
    • Document Study: The Oregon Territory
    • Document Study: The Texas Revolution
    • Emoji & Tell: The Mexican War
    • Document Study: The Mexican War
    • ​Thin Slide: Popular Sovereignty
    • Thick Slide + Archetypes: Compromise of 1850
  • Document Study: The Compromise of 1850
  • DBQ: Manifest Destiny

LESSON 2: ON THE BRINK OF WAR

We will summarize the events that led to the Civil War, & we will evaluate the degree to which each contributed to the conflict.​
Class Materials: 
  • The Story of Us: Division
  • FAC: On the Brink of War
  • Pear Deck: On the Brink of War
    • Document Study: The Brooks-Sumner Affair
    • ​Document Study: Dred Scott
    • Document Study: John Brown
    • Document Study: Lincoln's First Inaugural
  • Activity: On the Brink of War Sketch Notes
  • Hexagonal Thinking: On the Brink of War​
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LESSON 3: THE CIVIL WAR

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We will discuss the key military and political turning points of the Civil War.​
Class Materials: 
  • The Story of Us: Civil War
  • ​SAQ: The Civil War
  • Pear Deck: The Civil War​
  • ​Activity: U.S. v. Abraham Lincoln

LESSON 4: THE TRIALS OF RECONSTRUCTION

We will compare the differing approaches to Reconstruction, & we will  assess their impact  on the nation.​
Class Materials: 
  • ​Pear Deck: The Trials of Reconstruction​
    • Annotate & Tell: 10 Percent Plan vs. Wade Davis Bill
    • Frayer Model: Freedmen’s Bureau
    • Thin Slide: Sharecropping
    • Thin Slide Face Off: Presidential Reconstruction
    • Thin Slide: 14th Amendment
    • Thin Slide Face Off:  Congressional Reconstruction ​
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