Today students turned in their work from thursday on Manifest Destiny. We then began to look at the road to the Civil War. This unit titled the "breakup" revolves around it. We started by looking at the Cotton Gin and how it led to an explosion for slavery. We watched a short clip. Then we looked at the Missouri Compromise and Nullification Crisis. Each event causes small problems that will carry us towards division. The Nullification Crisis questions should be completed.
Quickwrite 2 was also done.
uWhat do you
think made people suddenly start taking a bigger issue with slavery? Do you
think it was gradual or a single event? Think of something else that society
has changed their minds on over time, how did things change?
