Note to educator the power point is split into two sections. The first section is the student organizer portfolio. The second section are the clues you need to conduct this lesson.

Student organizer portfolio

Hook My thoughts about the problems our country faced in the 1860s are? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Do you agree with North or South view? Why? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hypothesis: What caused the Civil War? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

If you Lived when there was Slavery in America Read pages 10,11,12,13,27,28,54,55,56,57 and 58 and answer the questions. Station 1 Why did slavery start in America? What happened to Africans that were captured? What happened when slaves were sold? Were any black people free? How could they become free?

Slave Posters Station 2 Male slave : What do you think happened to this man? Would this cause tension between North and South? Why? Caution: According to this poster, what is going on in Boston? Slave Auction: Who would have been interested in this event? Why?

Examine pictures and items from the North and South. Station 3 How did they make money? Examine pictures and items from the North and South. Contrast the differences between them. North South Why did the South think they needed slave labor?

Answer the questions that follows. Maps Station 4 Analyze the maps from 1830-1860. Answer the questions that follows. With the passing of the years, which part of the country is growing more industrialized with railroads. How do you know? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why do you think this part of the country is growing more industrialized? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Change over Time 1820-1854 Missouri Compromise Kansas Nebraska Act Review the two maps and information pages, and answer questions on the organizer. According to the maps and excerpts, what occurred from 1820-1854? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Who would be angry with the Kansas Nebraska Act and why ? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Who would be happy with the Kansas Nebraska Act and why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Abraham Lincoln: As teacher reads from the book, your job is to illustrate events in Lincolns life that may have been a cause of the Civil War.

Census data from each county and state: What did you discover? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What did you find surprising?

Technology Project Your group will create a Movie Maker, /Power Point, or Photo Story showing some causes of the Civil War. Your project must show how: slavery, short term compromise, economic differences, Abraham Lincoln, and secession were all causes that led to the Civil War. Your group will present to the whole class.

Clues

Station 2 Salve posters

Station 3 Northern factory

Northern factory workers

Northern Factory

Northern Farmer

Southern Slaves working on cotton plantation.

Cotton fields on Southern plantation.

Southern Plantation sugar cane fields.

Station 4

Missouri Compromise

Missouri Compromise and movement West Any state admitted to the Union above the line were to be non-slave states. Any state admitted to the Union below the line were to be slave states.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U. S The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported.

John Bell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on 15th February, 1797 John Bell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on 15th February, 1797. A member of the Democratic Party he worked as a lawyer until being elected to House of Representatives (1827-41). He joined the Whig Party and President William Harrison appointed him as Secretary of War in 1841. Bell returned to politics when he was elected as U.S. senator for Tennessee in 1847. Although a large slave owner, Bell opposed efforts to expand slavery and voted against the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854.

John Cabell Breckenridge was born near Lexington, Kentucky John Cabell Breckenridge was born near Lexington, Kentucky. He studied law at Transylvania University and after graduating he set up as a lawyer. Breckenridge was elected to the House of Representatives in 1851 and served as vice-president of the United States (1857-61).

Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813 Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813. He became attorney-general of Illinois in 1834, member of the legislature in 1835, secretary of state in 1840, and judge of the Supreme Court in 1841 and member of the House of Representatives in 1847.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm, Kentucky. This made him the first US president born west of the Appalachian range. Before his presidential election in 1860, Abraham Lincoln had served as a country lawyer, a state legislator in Illinois, a member of the House of Representatives and had campaigned twice for US Senate elections.

Who will win the Election of 1860? Cast Your Vote Who will win the Election of 1860? John Bell John Breckenridge Stephen Douglas Abraham Lincoln

Look over the census data, and write what you STATE ELECTORS LINCOLN DOUGLAS BRECKENRIDGE BELL ALABAMA 9 13,618 48,669 27,875 ARKANSAS 4 5,357 28,732 20,063 CALIFORNIA 38,733 37,999 33,969 9,111 CONNECTICUT 6 43,488 15,431 14,372 1,528 DELAWARE 3 3,822 1,066 7,339 3,888 FLORIDA 223 8,277 4,801 GEORGIA 10 11,581 52,176 42,960 ILLINOIS 11 172,171 160,215 2,331 4,914 INDIANA 13 139,033 115,509 12,295 5,306 IOWA 70,302 55,639 1,035 1,763 KENTUCKY 12 1,364 25,651 53,143 66,058 LOUISIANA 7,625 22,681 20,204 MAINE 8 62,811 29,693 6,368 2,046 MARYLAND 2,294 5,966 42,482 41,760 MASSACHUSETTS 106,684 34,370 6,163 22,331 MICHIGAN 88,481 65,057 805 415 MINNESOTA 22,069 11,920 748 50 MISSISSIPPI 7 3,282 40,768 25,045 MISSOURI 17,028 58,801 31,362 58,372 NEW HAMPSHIRE 5 37,519 25,887 2,125 412 NEW JERSEY 7* 58,346 62,869 NEW YORK 35 362,646 312,510 N. CAROLINA 2,737 48,846 45,129 OHIO 23 231,709 187,421 11,406 12,194 OREGON 5,329 4,136 5,075 218 PENNSYLVANIA 27 268,030 16,765 178,871 12,776 RHODE ISLAND 12,244 7,707 S. CAROLINA 8** -- TENNESSEE 11,281 65,097 69,728 TEXAS 18 47,454 15,383 VERMONT 33,808 8,649 1,969 VIRGINIA 15 1,887 16,198 74,325 74,481 WISCONSIN 86,110 65,021 887 161 Look over the census data, and write what you discovered in your portfolio. STATE ELECTORS LINCOLN non-LINCOLN CALIFORNIA 4 38,733 81,079 CONNECTICUT 6 43,488 31,331 ILLINOIS 11 172,171 167,460 INDIANA 13 139,033 133,110 IOWA 70,302 58,437 MAINE 8 62,811 38,107 MASSACHUSETTS 106,684 62,864 MICHIGAN 88,481 66,277 MINNESOTA 22,069 12,718 NEW HAMPSHIRE 5 37,519 28,424 NEW JERSEY 7 58,346 62,869 NEW YORK 35 362,646 312,510 OHIO 23 231,709 211,021 OREGON 3 5,329 9,429 PENNSYLVANIA 27 268,030 208,412 RHODE ISLAND 12,244 7,707 VERMONT 33,808 10,836 WISCONSIN 86,110 66,069

Kentucky County data