Thursday

In small groups you will be researching and teaching one of the following

1) Compromise of 1850
2) Kansas-Nebraska Act
3) Dred Scott Case

Please use the links I have given and cite the sources you use (do not use Wikipedia)

Compromise of 1850
1) List all parts/bills of this compromise
2) How did the Compromise address the slave question
3) What are some reactions or debates connected with it
4) How did it lead the nation closer to war?
5) Please find a map and another image connected with the Compromise

Place all info on your blogs

Sites to use: Our documents
Atlas
U.S. History
SparkNotes

Kansas-Nebraska Act

1) List what it was and what it did
2) When, by who, who was President
3) How did it address the slave question
4) What are reactions/debates to it
5) How did it lead the country closer to war?
6) Find a map and another image connected with it.

Post all information on your blogs.

Sites to use:

The Library of Congress
U.S. History
Our Documents

Dred Scott Case

1) List what it was and what it did
2) Who was involved and who delivered the verdict
3) How did it address the slave question
4) What are reactions/debates to the verdict
5) How did it lead the country closer to war?
6) Find a map and another image connected with it.

Post all information on your blogs

This Day in History
PBS
U.S. History
Shmoop
Our Documents

Note - do your best on these because if anyone misses the information on the quiz your group will be required to RETEACH the section.