1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Play your
cards right!
Below are a series of playing cards with events on them. Your job is to work out whether the card that appears, happened before or after the card before it. In pairs you will write down ‘before’ or ‘after’ on a whiteboard. You get one point per correct answer.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Wilmot Proviso
The Great Compromise
Gadsden Purchase
Missouri Compromise
Nullification Crisis

2. Topic: Rise of the Republicans
KNOW
The different reasons that explain the rise of the Republicans
EXPLAIN
Why each reason explains the rise of the Republicans
EVALUATE
Which reason is the most important

3. Rise of the Republicans
Please get out your A3 sheet from last lesson and a green pen. I am going to go through each event, and finish with the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
KNOW
The different reasons that explain the rise of the Republicans
EXPLAIN
Why each reason explains the rise of the Republicans
EVALUATE
Which reason is the most important reason for the rise of the Republicans

4. TASK 1: On the back of your sheet, draw the table below TASK 2: Write in your criteria on the top row TASK 3: Tick whether each event meets your critiera, cross if not TASK 4: Give each event a % based on importance (% must add to 100%)
Event
Criteria 1:
Criteria 2:
Criteria 3:
Overall importance (%)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Collapse of the Whigs
Failure of the Know Nothings
Beating of Sumner
1856 election
Dred Scott
Lincoln Douglas debates
Next year print this onto the A3 sheet???
KNOW
The different reasons that explain the rise of the Republicans
EXPLAIN
Why each reason explains the rise of the Republicans
EVALUATE
Which reason is the most important reason for the rise of the Republicans

5. Assess the validity of this view
“The Kansas-Nebraska Act was the most important reason in explaining the rise of the Republican Party”
Assess the validity of this view
KNOW
The different reasons that explain the rise of the Republicans
EXPLAIN
Why each reason explains the rise of the Republicans
EVALUATE
Which reason is the most important reason for the rise of the Republicans

6. Flipped Learning
Due next lesson…
1. Your revision grids are due next lesson. Please dedicate your time to not only completing the second row, but revisiting the first row and making sure it makes sense to you!
Remember you are on a two year course. You do not want to get half way through A2 and realise your notes do not make sense!