Monday, March 10, 2008

On the Edge of Civil War - March 10, 2008

Agenda:
1. Go over HW: "The Crisis Turns Violent"
2. Ken Burns' "The Civil War" (pg 48-49)
HW: On the Edge of Civil War (pg 50)

First, if you're just here to download the Benchmark Standards Review, you can get it here:
http://staff.hartdistrict.org/rvi/q3review.pdf.

The podcast will be up later this evening.

We are teetering on the edge of the American Civil War, which means our quarter is quickly coming to an end. Today we reviewed critical events that pushed our nation closer to disunion: the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Brooks-Sumner incident in the Senate.

Following our review of "The Crisis Turns Violent," we focused our attention on a small video clip from Ken Burns' PBS series, "The Civil War." In it, we reviewed slavery in the South, the abolitionist movement, and ended with John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA, in 1859.

Your homework for tonight is to read pages 370-377 in the textbook, and learn about our nation "On the Edge of Civil War."

RVI

Ron Ippolito
Team Yukon History/Yearbook Adviser
Rio Norte Junior High School

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