1. USHAP Unit 4 Week 4

2. Tuesday 11/13/12 Objective: Understand multiple perspectives Content: Sectionalism and the coming crisis Skills: Evaluating, generalizing Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain? Agenda: 1) Two Party System 2) Economic development = sectional crisis? 3) Bunker mentality exercise *Test on Friday. No Review Quiz This Week

3. Change in the American Party System Over Time Create a flow chart for the American Party system as it has evolved from Washington’s Administration to Pierce. Include the following: Party values Timeline Sectional Values Important People Parties: Federalist Anti-Federalist Democratic Republicans Republicans Democrats Whigs Free Soil Liberty

4. Evolution of Major Parties c.1792FederalistsDemocratic-Republicans c.1816Death of Federalists c.1820Republicans (One party: Era of Good Feelings) c.1825National Republicans Democratic-republicans (Jacksonian Democrats) 1834WhigsDemocrats 1854RepublicansTo Present Year

5. How was the American economy of 1850 different that of 1800?

6. Block Day 11/14 & 11/15 Objective: Understand multiple perspectives Content: Sectionalism and the coming crisis Skills: Cause and effect, primary source analysis Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain? Agenda: Bunker Mentality Activity Graphic Analysis of events in the 1850s (If time) study for Friday’s Test

7. Bunker mentality exercise Using your notes from the last sections of chs. 10 and 14, and the beginning of ch. 15, rank the following as contributing to a bunker mentality among Southern white elites: Definition: bunker mentality An attitude of extreme defensiveness and self-justification based on an often exaggerated sense of being under persistent attack from others. Missouri Compromise Nat Turner’s Rebellion The Liberator Gag Rule International slave trade ended by Congress Nullification Crisis Growth of wealth disparity between classes

8. Graphic Analysis of the events of the 1950s Angers North Angers South Soothes North Soothes South

9. Events of the 1850s: Place event & put a reason why. Uncle Tom’s Cabin Compromise of 1850 CA admitted as a free state Popular Sovereignty Fugitive Slave Law End of DC slave trade Texas Border Settled Election of 1852 Pierce Administration’s manifest destiny "Bleeding Kansas“ Nativism Emergence of the Republican Party Election of 1856 The Dred Scott decision the Lecompton constitution Panic of 1857 John Brown’s execution Election of 1860 Texas Border Settled (1850): Slave state but ceded land to NM

10. WAS THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICAN NATIONAL POLITICS IN THE 1850S INEVITABLE?

12. Friday 11/16 Objective: Demonstrate an extensive body of historic knowledge Content: Chapters 13-15 Skills: Test taking, analysis Essential question: Why was compromise increasingly difficult to obtain? Agenda: 1) MC #4