Good Morning! Please sit at the table at which you normally sit. Get out your gallery walk/document work form last class. Get out your major themes sheets.

Document Review & Statements of Significance Think about what your document has to do with expansion & the development of conflict between North & South. Write a statement of significance for the document at your table. Be prepared to share your statement

Statement of Significance Example Document A – Declaration of Independence excerpt, 1776 In the Dec. of Ind. Thomas Jefferson wrote that, “…all men are created equal…”, but Americans had different ideas about what that meant.

United States: Expansion & Conflict through Maps GQ4 - Evaluate the impacts of slavery and of expansion in the growing divide between North & South

Timeline of Expansion

United States 1783

1783

1803

1804

1819

Missouri 1819: What’s the big deal? Free states vs. Slave states Balance of power US Senate Increasing opposition to slavery in North Increasing defense of slavery in South

Missouri Compromise 1820

Missouri Compromise Henry Clay – “The Great Pacificator” The terms Missouri admitted as a slave state Maine created as a free state 36’ 30” Line of Latitude Significance?

Fun with POVL “…but this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.  I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.  It is hushed indeed for the moment, but this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence.  A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated, and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.” Thomas Jefferson, 1820