1. 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.

2. Student organizer
portfolio

3. 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?
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. Answer the questions that follows.
Maps
Station 4
Analyze the maps from
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?
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. 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 ? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who would be angry with the Kansas Nebraska Act and why ?
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who would be happy with the Kansas Nebraska Act and why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

9. 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.

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

11. 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.

12. Clues

13. Station 2
Salve posters

16. Station 3
Northern factory

17. Northern factory workers

18. Northern Factory

19. Northern Farmer

20. Southern Slaves working on cotton plantation.

21. Cotton fields on Southern plantation.

22. Southern Plantation sugar cane fields.

23. Station 4

24. Missouri Compromise

25. 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.

27. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U. S
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 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.

28. John Bell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on 15th February, 1797
John Bell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on 15th February, A member of the Democratic Party he worked as a lawyer until being elected to House of Representatives ( ). 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 Although a large slave owner, Bell opposed efforts to expand slavery and voted against the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854.

29. 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 ( ).

30. Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 1813
Stephen Arnold Douglas was born in Brandon, Vermont, in 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.

31. 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.

32. 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

33. 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

34. Kentucky County data