3)+Antebellum,+Causes+of+War

=1850-1860= Can include Westward Expansion, Age of Reform

The articles below are from the Historians' Perspective of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. These articles can be used individually or collectively for writing and reading assignments.
 * Issue No. 9, Richard White: Born Modern: An Overview of the West[[image:http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/images/lincoln_arrow.gif width="10" height="12" link="@http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2006/historian.php"]]**
 * Issue No. 9, Elliott West: A New Look at the Great Plains [[image:http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/images/lincoln_arrow.gif width="10" height="12" link="@http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2006/historian2.php"]]**
 * Issue No. 9, John Mack Faragher: The Myth of the Frontier [[image:http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/images/lincoln_arrow.gif width="10" height="12" link="@http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2006/historian3.php"]]**
 * Issue No. 9, Ned Blackhawk: American Indian Autonomy [[image:http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/images/lincoln_arrow.gif width="10" height="12" link="@http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2006/historian4.php"]]**
 * Issue No. 9, Virginia Scharff: Women of the West [[image:http://www.gilderlehrman.org/institute/images/lincoln_arrow.gif width="10" height="12" link="@http://www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2006/historian5.php"]]**

Discovery Channel "Understanding Slavery" (by Cindy Lonergan) [|Understanding Slavery]

The following set of lessons is created by the GISforHistory. This set of lessons combines primary resources with mapping activities. [|Slavery in America: Agency of enslaved people]

[|Picturing Uncle Tom's Cabin] This is an interactive lesson.

The Articles below are giving Historians' perspective on the issue of slavery. [|The Slave Narratives: A Genre and a Source] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) [|The Material Culture of Slave Resistance] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) [|When the Past Speaks to the Present: A Cautionary Tale about Evidence] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History)

Mexican War-James Polk (Primary Source Activity)

MEXICAN WAR WEBQUEST http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/index_flash.html

[[file:Mexican American War Webquest.doc]]Handouts and related materials developed by Lara Paparo
Bold Defiance and Dissent in the UGRR (by Maria Vita) Students analyze the letter that runaway slave J. Logan wrote his former owner (Joe Herman provided this primary resource to US I teachers and this is a lesson with tiered questions, activities) [|NEHUGRRVita2.doc] also available at http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/ugrr/lesson_plans.html

http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/kids/buffalo/index.html (*Suggested SAS -**8.3.9.B**; **8.2.9.C**)
 * BUFFALO history - using the hide of American Indians to tell the story of Plains Indians

[|Antislavery Before the Revolutionary War] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) Students are to read the article by Sylvia R. Frey.

[|Abolition and Antebellum Reform] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) Students are to read the article by Ronald G. Walters.

[|"Rachel Weeping for Her Child": Black Women and the Abolition of Slavery] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) Students are to read the article by Margaret Washington

[|Angelina and Sarah Grimke: Abolitionist Sisters] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) Students are to read the article by Carol Berkin.

[|Abolition and Religion] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) Students are to read the article by Robert Abzug.

[|Eye on John Brown] (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History) Students are to read the article by Steven Mintz.

Lincoln - Douglas Debates Students analyze the issues of the Lincoln - Douglas Debates using the Gilder-Lehrman presentation. [|Lincoln - Douglas Debates]

THE 1860 ELECTION - from explorepahistory.com Students analyze party platforms and create political cartoon Students might use this to predict WAR http://explorepahistory.com/viewLesson.php?id=40

Cause of the Civil War Graphic Organizer Activity (w/rubric)