1. Lincoln-Douglas Debates

2. Blob Bridge: Dred Scott Recap
TASK: Decide, and justify which blog best represents:
Dred Scott
Justice Taney
Buchanan
Congress
Stephen Douglas
Republicans
Slave supporters
Slave opponents
Starter next lesson depending on timings

3. Self Assessment GB3 Rewrite
Colour 1
Colour 2
Colour 3
Provenance
Points (Type, Audience, Date)
Own Knowledge
Links to value/limits
Tone
Point (Mood, emphasis in the source)
Own Knowledge (Why is this mood/emphasis used)
Argument
Point (What does the source say?)
Own Knowledge (is the argument true?)
Colour coded (intro, main body, conclusion)
Write a paragraph that compares your GB3 rewrite to your first attempt.
What is different about your rewrite?
How does this impact the quality of your answer?
What do you still need to work on?

4. Topic: Lincoln-Douglas Debates
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
EXPLAIN
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

5. LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION BUCHANAN’S PRESIDENCY LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
Kansas and the Lecompton Constitution
KANSAS
DRED SCOTT
LECOMPTON CONSTITUTION
PANIC OF 1857
BUCHANAN’S PRESIDENCY
DOUGLAS VS.
BUCHANAN
1858 MID-TERMS
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
HARPERS FERRY
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

6. Snapchat Story
TASK: Create a snapchat story/storyboard to explain developments during Buchanan’s Presidency from Kansas (p.76) to the Panic of 1857 (p.77). Use no more than one image per paragraph (8 at most).
Challenge: For each snap, give a mark /5 based on how far Buchanan is in the wrong.
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

7. Problems in Kansas
The situation in Kansas appeared to have calmed down.
There were still two government (Lecompton and Topeka)
Geary had restored order after Bleeding Kansas
Free States were the majority, Buchanan needed to make sure the will of people prevailed
Geary resigned in 1857, and warned Buchanan not to support the pro-slavery
Buchanan appointed Robert Walker (assured by Buchanan that he would support fair elections).
Walker realised that most people in Kansas opposed slavery, and therefore decided to aim to bring Kansas into the Union as a free state.
February 1857 the Lecompton government authorised the election of a convention to draw up a constitution.
Free-staters refused to get involved, and therefore pro-slavers won every seat on the convention… (mockery of popular sovereignty)
Walker investigated fraud and found that the charges were true.
Hundreds of fictitious people had been recorded as voting!
Walker overturned enough results to give free-staters the majority in the legislature.
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

8. Lecompton Constitution
The constitutional convention was now the last refuge for pro-slavers.
Few thought the convention represented majority opinion in Kansas.
Yet it decided to draft a pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution.
There was a referendum allowed on the Constitution, whereby:
They could accept the pro-slavery constitution
They could accept another constitution that named future importation of slaves, but guaranteed the rights of slaveholders already in Kansas
Led to an ultimatum ‘Lecompton or disunion’ – rang out in Southern papers
Buchanan supported the conventions actions (ignoring Walker’s advice)
Vote happened on the Lecompton Constitution
Many free-staters abstained in protest…
Vote was in favour of the Constitution with slavery
Buchanan endorsed the actions of the Convention
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

9. Buchanan vs. Douglas
Buchanan’s decision to support the Lecompton Constitution was a blunder.
Even some southerners were embarrassed, and Buchanan lost support
By supporting the Lecompton constitution, Republicans gained ammunition
It also enraged northern Democrats who were committed to Popular Sovereignty.
Stephen Douglas attacked both Buchanan and the Lecompton Constitution
Southern Democrats denounced Douglas as a traitor
The Constitution was passed through the Senate, but failed in the House
Buchanan then decided that Kansas should vote again… fairly…
Free-staters won 11,3000 to 1788
Kansas joined the Union as a free state in January 1861
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

10. Panic of 1857 US industry was hit by depression
It was mainly caused by the economic situation in Europe
It resulted in mass northern unemployment
Buchanan, did nothing (believed govt. should not involve itself)
His party were then blamed by northerners for their seeming indifference
Republican economic proposals (internal improvements and high tariffs) were blocked by Democrats in Congress
The depression helped the Republicans in the mid-terms election of 1859
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

11. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

12. Task: match the information with the correct heading
The Basics...
Task: match the information with the correct heading
What?
Where?
Why?
Why is it important?
Result?
Douglas was seeking a third term as the Democrat Senator for Illinois, Lincoln was his Republican challenger.
The debates were for which person represents Illinois in the Federal Government, as Senator for Illinois.
At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures (State Congress). Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature, who would then choose them as Senator (INDIRECT ELECTION).
Republicans (Lincoln) won 125,000 votes and Democrats (Douglas) won 121,000. But because of the electoral system, more democrats were elected to the state legislature (House: 40 Democrats against 35 Republicans)(Senate 14 Democrats against 11 Republicans). Douglas remained Senator with 54 votes.
Illinois – Northern free state.
They discussed the really big issues of the day – sectional conflict, slavery, states’ rights. Although Lincoln lost it was evident that he was a rising star. Douglas was the little giant of the Democratic Party and his power base was Illinois and usually the democrats would expect to win there. But Lincoln was a rising star of the new Republican party which had done well in the 1856 election in the North.
7 open-air debates during the Illinois state Congressional elections of 1858.
Print these out using word document in the folder

13. Check you answers, amending any errors with a green pen
The Basics...
Check you answers, amending any errors with a green pen
What?
7 open-air debates during the Illinois state Congressional elections of 1858.
Where?
Illinois – Northern free state.
Why?
Douglas was seeking a third term as the Democrat Senator for Illinois, Lincoln was his Republican challenger.
The debates were for which person represents Illinois in the Federal Government, as Senator for Illinois.
At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures (State Congress). Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature, who would then choose them as Senator (INDIRECT ELECTION).
Why is it important?
They discussed the really big issues of the day – sectional conflict, slavery, states’ rights. Although Lincoln lost it was evident that he was a rising star. Douglas was the little giant of the Democratic Party and his power base was Illinois and usually the democrats would expect to win there. But Lincoln was a rising star of the new Republican party which had done well in the 1856 election in the North.
Result?
Republicans (Lincoln) won 125,000 votes and Democrats (Douglas) won 121,000. But because of the electoral system, more democrats were elected to the state legislature (House: 40 Democrats against 35 Republicans)(Senate 14 Democrats against 11 Republicans). Douglas remained Senator with 54 votes.

14. Who said it?
On a whiteboard, decide whether Lincoln of Douglas said the following
Constitution allows for same rights provided in the Dec of Independence to be extended to black slaves (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness)
If a state decides not to have slavery then the Supreme Court could not force this on them. ‘The people have the lawful means to introduce or exclude it as they please’
The threat of slavery came not from the South but from the idea of popular sovereignty. Only the power of the Federal Government could put an end to this moral wrong
A house divided against itself cannot stand, I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free’
Said Douglas was conspiring to extend slavery into free states
He believed that if you left it to the states they would actually decide to be free states so he did not foresee any possibility that slavery could be extended.
FFs did not intend for such rights to be extended to slaves, this was not the intention of the FFs. Pointed out that many of the FFs were themselves slave owners
Constitution leaves it open for states to decide most things for themselves. Popular sovereignty – power should be located locally, self-government should reflect the wishes of the people.
Animation is in place to change the colour of the quotes when played. Get students to write down one quote for each person.
He would not interfere with slavery in the states where it already existed
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
N.B. He remained opposed to the idea of full social/political equality (therefore at this stage he was not an egalitarian) "I am not nor ever have been in favour of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people’’

15. The Election Result (Lincoln = Blue Douglas = Red)
What is interesting about this election outcome?
The map of Illinois is an interesting reflection of what was happening in the USA as a whole
Also a reflection for what would happen in 1860 with the North of Illinois voting for Lincoln and the South voting against him.
The red stars represent the 7 locations of the debates: 4 of these locations then voted for Lincoln.
The Three that didn’t are on the border with Missouri
(Lincoln = Blue Douglas = Red)
KNOW
Key details about the Lincoln-Douglas debates
ANALYSE
What was said in the debates
EVALUATE
The significance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates

16. In the Lincoln-Douglas debates
How important were the Lincoln Douglas debates in increasing sectional tensions?
Write a paragraph explaining your answer to this question. You will get points for your paragraph, based on the table below:
-1 point
1 point (Ev)
2 points (Ex)
3 points (L) I
For example,
This indicates
Thus
From my own knowledge
For instance,
This demonstrates
Ergo
Might
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates
This proves
Therefore
Maybe
This illustrates
Hence
Thing
This highlights
Consequently
Swap your answer with the person opposite you. Using a green pen, give their answer a mark based on the table above. Then, write down 1xWWW comments, and 1xEBI

17. Flipped Learning Due next lesson…
Watch following video on John Brown and complete the activities below:
Give 3 facts about John Brown’s early life
Make a timeline that covers the following dates and why they are significant in relation to John Brown:
Should John Brown be considered a martyr or a terrorist? Justify your opinion with reference to his life.