Calculate the Difference in Total Population Between the North and the South

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Calculate the difference in total population between the North and the South.
Calculate the effect of slave population on the North and the South. How does the slave population affect the total population numbers?
What do these population numbers mean in terms of politics or government?
Using these numbers, consider how the North might have dominated the South politically in at least two branches of the government.
Examine the three charts “Industrial Workers,” “Yearly Value of Manufactured Goods,” and “Railroad Mileage.” What do these charts tell us about the two economies?
How could it be argued that the North’s industrial economy and the South’s agricultural economy might have benefited each other?
What causes of the Civil War are suggested by these diagrams?

Document 2

Calculate the difference in total population between the North and the South.
Calculate the effect of slave population on the North and the South. How does the slave population affect the total population numbers?
What do these population numbers mean in terms of politics or government?
Using these numbers, consider how the North might have dominated the South politically in at least two branches of the government.
Examine the three charts “Industrial Workers,” “Yearly Value of Manufactured Goods,” and “Railroad Mileage.” What do these charts tell us about the two economies?
How could it be argued that the North’s industrial economy and the South’s agricultural economy might have benefited each other?
What causes of the Civil War are suggested by these diagrams?

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Summarize the central idea of Helper’s quote. Is Helper arguing that the South needs to secede or to change?
Helper’s book frightened many wealthy Southerners because they feared it would stir up a rebellion by poor Southern whites. How is this fear understandable?
How would Helper’s book be received in the North? How might it fuel abolitionism?
How do the pie diagrams in Document 2 support Helper’s views?
Helper wrote these words four years before the war began. How does this document show any causes of the Civil War?

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Summarize the central idea of Helper’s quote. Is Helper arguing that the South needs to secede or to change?
Helper’s book frightened many wealthy Southerners because they feared it would stir up a rebellion by poor Southern whites. How is this fear understandable?
How would Helper’s book be received in the North? How might it fuel abolitionism?
How do the pie diagrams in Document 2 support Helper’s views?
Helper wrote these words four years before the war began. How does this document show any causes of the Civil War?

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State the central idea of the passage.
What is Fitzhugh’s point of view on slavery? Place a * next to the evidence that supports your analysis.
Make two columns, headed “Slave Labor” and “Free Labor.” In the “Slave Labor” column, list the reasons Fitzhugh used to praise slave labor. In the “Free Labor” column, list the problems are associated with free labor (these would be the opposite of what you wrote in the “Slave Labor” column).
Code each reason: Mark statements that seem logically true with a + sign. Mark statements that seem logically untrue with a – sign.
How does Douglass’s point of view differ from Fitzhugh’s?
How do documents 4 and 5 show a possible cause for the Civil War?

Document 5

State the central idea of the passage.
What is Fitzhugh’s point of view on slavery? Place a * next to the evidence that supports your analysis.
Make two columns, headed “Slave Labor” and “Free Labor.” In the “Slave Labor” column, list the reasons Fitzhugh used to praise slave labor. In the “Free Labor” column, list the problems are associated with free labor (these would be the opposite of what you wrote in the “Slave Labor” column).
Code each reason: Mark statements that seem logically true with a + sign. Mark statements that seem logically untrue with a – sign.
How does Douglass’s point of view differ from Fitzhugh’s?
How do documents 4 and 5 show a possible cause for the Civil War?

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In the first paragraph, label the who, what, where, when, why and how.
In the first paragraph, underline John Brown’s main goal.
Was John Brown successful? In the second paragraph, underline the evidence to support your answer.
Read paragraphs three and four. Contrast the reactions to John Brown’s raid.
What do the contrasting reactions reveal about a cause of the Civil War?
State the central idea of the passage.
How do documents 4, 5 and 6 belong in one bucket? Explain.

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In the first paragraph, label the who, what, where, when, why and how.
In the first paragraph, underline John Brown’s main goal.
Was John Brown successful? In the second paragraph, underline the evidence to support your answer.
Read paragraphs three and four. Contrast the reactions to John Brown’s raid.
What do the contrasting reactions reveal about a cause of the Civil War?
State the central idea of the passage.
How do documents 4, 5 and 6 belong in one bucket? Explain.

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Count the total number of slave states/territories.
Count the total number of free states/territories.
Review the Missouri Compromise and 1850 Compromise maps in the Background Essay. Restate what the Missouri Compromise enacted.
Use the Background Essay to review the meaning of popular sovereignty. Underline in the Document Note the implication of popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
Why might Northern workers oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Why would control of Kansas be important politically?
Why would control of Kansas be important economically?

Document 7

Count the total number of slave states/territories.
Count the total number of free states/territories.
Review the Missouri Compromise and 1850 Compromise maps in the Background Essay. Restate what the Missouri Compromise enacted.
Use the Background Essay to review the meaning of popular sovereignty. Underline in the Document Note the implication of popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
Why might Northern workers oppose the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Why would control of Kansas be important politically?
Why would control of Kansas be important economically?

Document 8

Label each person in the cartoon.
Explain what you see in the cartoon.
What is the date, the place and the occasion of the cartoon?
Why is Brooks beating Sumner?
Explain the word “chivalry.”
What does the caption “Southern Chivalry – Argument versus Club’s {sic}” mean?
What is the cartoonist’s point of view?
How does the cartoon help answer the question, “What caused the Civil War?”

Document 8

Label each person in the cartoon.
Explain what you see in the cartoon.
What is the date, the place and the occasion of the cartoon?
Why is Brooks beating Sumner?
Explain the word “chivalry.”
What does the caption “Southern Chivalry – Argument versus Club’s {sic}” mean?
What is the cartoonist’s point of view?
How does the cartoon help answer the question, “What caused the Civil War?”

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In the first paragraph, underline the question. Restate in your own words.
Summarize the second paragraph.
Read the third paragraph. Circle the three things protected by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
Why is the concept of property important?
Why would voiding the Missouri Compromise be important? What are the implications of this?
State the central idea of the decision.
How does this document help answer the question, “What caused the Civil War?”

Document 9

In the first paragraph, underline the question. Restate in your own words.
Summarize the second paragraph.
Read the third paragraph. Circle the three things protected by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
Why is the concept of property important?
Why would voiding the Missouri Compromise be important? What are the implications of this?
State the central idea of the decision.
How does this document help answer the question, “What caused the Civil War?”

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Who is giving this speech? On what occasion?
In the first paragraph, Lincoln says, “it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.” What is “it?”
After reading the first paragraph, state Lincoln’s central idea.
Summarize the second paragraph.
In the third paragraph, what does Lincoln say happened “two years ago?”
What does he see happening in the future?
What evidence in the document supports the idea that Lincoln believes a war is coming?

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Who is giving this speech? On what occasion?
In the first paragraph, Lincoln says, “it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed.” What is “it?”
After reading the first paragraph, state Lincoln’s central idea.
Summarize the second paragraph.
In the third paragraph, what does Lincoln say happened “two years ago?”
What does he see happening in the future?
What evidence in the document supports the idea that Lincoln believes a war is coming?

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The magic number of electoral votes to win the election of 1860 was 152.Before analyzing the map, review with your partner the difference between popular vote and electoral vote. What determines who becomes president?
Review the names of the four candidates and state their general position on the slavery issue.
Examine the election results. Who carried the North? The border states? The South? The far West?
What exceptions, if any, were there to the general patterns?
What is suggested by the popular vote?
What does the map show about the United States in 1860?
BIG QUESTION: How does the Election Map of 1860 help explain what caused the Civil War?

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The magic number of electoral votes to win the election of 1860 was 152.Before analyzing the map, review with your partner the difference between popular vote and electoral vote. What determines who becomes president?
Review the names of the four candidates and state their general position on the slavery issue.
Examine the election results. Who carried the North? The border states? The South? The far West?
What exceptions, if any, were there to the general patterns?
What is suggested by the popular vote?
What does the map show about the United States in 1860?
BIG QUESTION: How does the Election Map of 1860 help explain what caused the Civil War?