division ppt- day 1

1. division

2. Bell work 10/5
• Use the HIPPO
guide to analyze this
cartoon in the bell
work section of your
notebook. Try to
answer at least 2 of
the HIPPO parts:

3. p. 43 Division in Antebellum America
•Divide the page into 7 sections (4 lines for each,
there will be a bit left at the bottom of the page)

4. 1. Compromise of 1850 (as we watch the video-
record what each (north and south) liked about
the compromise)
Click the link below and watch the video on
Millard Fillmore
compromise
North
South

5. 2. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• Tried to expose the atrocities of slavery

6. 3. Bleeding Kansas
• Kansas Nebraska Act (1854)=
nullify Missouri Compromise,
allowed new states popular
sovereignty (ability to decide
for themselves)
• Floods of people move there
to influence the vote=violence
and riots

7. 4. Dredd Scott Decision (1857)
• Spent a long period of time in free territory,
so he sued for his freedom
• Supreme Court decided:
• A. when the constitution was written African
Americans were not considered citizens
• B. The government does not have the right to
deny a citizen his own property (gov can’t
take away your property)

8. 5. Harper’s Ferry
• John Brown’s Raid (1859)
• He tried to start a slave riot
and planned to steal
weapons from the armory
• Caught and executed=
martyr for the abolition (anti
slavery) movement

9. 6. Election of 1860
• Lincoln’s main focus: keeping
the union whole/ peace in
America
• His election terrifies the south
and threatens their way of life

10. 7. Succession of the Confederate States
• The south breaks away from The Union
and creates the Confederate States of
America
• Attack Fort Sumter in 1861 to remove
the norther military from the South.

11. p. 42 Political Poster (November 6, 1860)
• Divide the page in Half (north vs South)
• Create a pro and an anti election day poster. Each poster must include
one of the events/terms from today’s notes.
• Include supporting/influencial facts to sway voters
• Make it “attractive”- you are trying to convince voters