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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 11

Expansion, Slavery and Sectional Conflict

Learners analyze how cotton and the market revolution bound North and South together while expanding slavery, examine Manifest Destiny and the Mexican–American War from US and Mexican perspectives, trace how the question of slavery in the territories destroyed political compromise between 1846 and 1860, and evaluate the causes of secession using the words of participants.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 130 minutes
  • Sectional crisis check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, estimate, highlight a text, match pairs and type a number
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What learners will discover

  • Explain how the cotton economy and the market revolution linked regions and expanded slavery, using data.
  • Analyze Manifest Destiny and the Mexican–American War from multiple perspectives.
  • Explain how the question of slavery in the territories broke down compromise between 1846 and 1860, using primary sources.
  • Evaluate the causes of secession in a written argument grounded in participants' own words.

Lessons

  1. Cotton, capitalism and the domestic slave trade 5 steps4 practiceabout 32 min
  2. Manifest Destiny and war with Mexico 5 steps3 practiceabout 33 min
  3. The collapse of compromise, 1846–1860 5 steps3 practiceabout 33 min
  4. 1860 and secession 5 steps4 practiceabout 32 min
  5. Sectional crisis check 9 questions at the end

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