1. Good afternoon!
Please sit with your project group. You’ll need your 1850s Pre-Civil War Events worksheet and your Major Themes sheet.
Review Events
Group Project Collaboration & Planning
Paper 1 Workshop – Formation of the Republican Party
Mini-Assessment 1.2 Review

2. 1850s: A Crazy Decade

3. Group Projects: Part 2 Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Dred Scott, Harper’s Ferry, Election of 1860
GQ#2 - Why did the Compromise of 1850 break down so quickly?
GQ#3 - Why did the Republicans win the 1860 presidential election?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Election of 1860

4. Group Project - Expectations
Collaborate & participate.
Use technology appropriately.
Have academic conversations.
Work hard & be nice!!!

5. Group Project
Spend a few minutes making sure every member of your group has good information for all parts of your worksheet/chart. Talk through it to ensure that there is a common understanding of the events and their significance to the origins of the Civil War. Consult your resources and fill in blanks as needed.

6. these events in bringing on the Civil War. Which events were most
II. Have a discussion with your group about the relative significance of
these events in bringing on the Civil War. Which events were most
significant & why? Which were not as significant? Why?
Complete the chart and explain your thinking.

7. III. Discuss with your group and COME UP WITH A PLAN to create
some sort of timeline of the 1850s that helps us understand why
the Compromise of 1850 broke down so quickly, the rise of the
Republican Party in 1860, and the origins of the Civil War.
Your group is free to create your timeline in whatever format you choose, as long as it identifies and explains the significance of events, and it clearly indicates which events were the more significant ones – see your rankings above. What was the most significant event? What was next? Etc.

8. Paper 1 Practice – Birth of the Republican Party
Part B – What is the assertion?
The formation of the Republican Party caused a great threat to the party system.
What is the big message of each source?
Which sources support the assertion?
Which do not?
OMCL
Which are more reliable? Why?

9. The formation of the Republican Party caused a great threat to the party system.

10. The formation of the Republican Party caused a great threat to the party system.

11. The formation of the Republican Party caused a great threat to the party system.

12. The formation of the Republican Party caused a great threat to the party system.

13. Unit 1.2 Mini-Assessment Vocab Section Document Section
Statements of Significance
Document Section
Source Evaluation
See your Major Themes Sheet!!!