America's+Contentious+Decade

Welcome to the Wiki page for Era 4, Part 3!

The Mini-institute on this topic, "The 1850s: America's Contentious Decade," was held on March 21, 2013. The purpose of this wiki page is to allow those who attended the opportunity to pool resources and ideas gleaned from that institute. Feel free to post lesson plans, project ideas, or other ways that you have integrated the material or methods learned at this day's sessions into your classroom. What worked, or did not work? What materials have you discovered were most helpful? Or least helpful? What material (photos, documents, videos, etc) do you wish you had more of? And who has found some to recommend?

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 * Documents and Activities:**


 * [[file:Fugitive Slave Act.doc]]
 * [[file:Dred Scott.pdf]]
 * Timeline Activity: [[file:1850sTimeline.pdf]]
 * Timeline Activity Answer Key: [[file:1850sTimelineActivity.doc]]
 * [[file:Abolition.WmsRights.ppt]]
 * [[file:Abolitionists.doc]]
 * [[file:Antislavery Connection.doc]]
 * [[image:Fanatics for Freedom Poster.jpg width="454" height="407"]]
 * 4TH Grade S.S. Standards TCAP Breakdown [[file:Standard Assessment 4th.doc]]
 * 8TH Grade S.S. Standards TCAP Breakdown [[file:Standard Assessment 8th.doc]]
 * Teacher's Guide to Tony Horwitz's //Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War// [[file:MidnightRising.pdf]]
 * Primary Source Set: The Civil War: The Nation Moves towards War, 1850-1861 (from the Library of Congress)