USHAPUnit 4 Week 4

Tuesday 11/13/12• Objective: Understand multiple perspectives• Content: Sectionalism and the coming crisis• Skills: Evaluating, generalizing

• Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain?

• Agenda:• 1) Two Party System• 2) Economic development = sectional crisis?• 3) Bunker mentality exercise• *Test on Friday. No Review Quiz This Week

Change in the American Party System Over Time

• Create a flow chart for the American Party system as it has evolved from Washington’s Administration to Pierce. Include the following:• Party values• Timeline• Sectional Values• Important People• Parties:

• Federalist• Anti-Federalist• Democratic Republicans• Republicans• Democrats• Whigs• Free Soil• Liberty

Evolution of Major Parties

c.1792 Federalists Democratic-Republicans

c.1816 Death of Federalistsc.1820 Republicans

(One party: Era of Good Feelings)

c.1825 National Republicans Democratic-republicans (Jacksonian Democrats)

1834 Whigs Democrats

1854 Republicans

To Present To Present

Year

How was the American economy of 1850 different that of 1800?

Block Day 11/14 & 11/15• Objective: Understand multiple perspectives• Content: Sectionalism and the coming crisis• Skills: Cause and effect, primary source analysis

• Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain?

Agenda:• Bunker Mentality Activity• Graphic Analysis of events in the 1850s• (If time) study for Friday’s Test

Bunker mentality exerciseUsing your notes from the last sections of chs. 10 and 14, and the beginning of ch. 15, rank the following as contributing to a bunker mentality among Southern white elites:Definition: bunker mentality An attitude of extreme defensiveness and self-justification based on an often exaggerated sense of being under persistent attack from others.• Missouri Compromise• Nat Turner’s Rebellion• The Liberator• Gag Rule • International slave trade ended by Congress• Nullification Crisis• Growth of wealth disparity between classes

Graphic Analysis of the events of the 1950s

Angers North

Angers South

Soothes North

Soothes South

Events of the 1850s: Place event & put a reason why.

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin• Compromise of 1850

• CA admitted as a free state• Popular Sovereignty• Fugitive Slave Law• End of DC slave trade• Texas Border Settled

• Election of 1852• Pierce Administration’s

manifest destiny• "Bleeding Kansas“• Nativism• Emergence of the

Republican Party• Election of 1856• The Dred Scott decision• the Lecompton constitution• Panic of 1857• John Brown’s execution• Election of 1860

Texas Border Settled (1850): Slave state but ceded land to NM

WAS THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICAN NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE 1850S INEVITABLE?

Friday 11/16• Objective: Demonstrate an extensive body of historic

knowledge• Content: Chapters 13-15• Skills: Test taking, analysis

• Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain?

Agenda:• 1) MC #4