8th US History
Chapter 12: The Last Days of The Union
Mon 2/09 Text pgs. 221-227 WB pgs 63-64
Thur 2/12 Text Pgs 228-237 WB pgs. 65-66
Wed 3/18 Chapter 12 Review
Thur 2/19 Chapter 12 Test, Workbook Packets Due
Chapter 12 Slideshows for Review
Chapter 12: “Last Days of The Union” Essay Questions.
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Essay Question #1
How did people in the South, both thinkers and southern congress members, react to the antislavery and abolitionist movements?
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Essay Questiion #2
Discuss Chief Justice Roger Taney’s decision in the case, Dred Scott v. Sanford. What did he say about the Declaration of Independence? About slavery in the territories? What consequences did this have on law in the United States?
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Essay Question #3
Why did Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois propose the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and what did that act do? What was “popular sovereignty,” and what did it have to do with the act? How did people in both the North and the South react to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?