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Dred Scott Decison Editorials

Dred Scott Decision Audio Questions

Polarization over Slavery

The Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854 Map

The Missouri Compromise 1820 Map

Popular Sovereignty and the Political Polarization over Slavery

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Slavery and the Civil War

• The Emancipation Proclamation Transcript
• Emancipation Proclamation Reading

Jim Crow Laws - Resources

Race, Racism and the Law 

What Was Jim Crow    

 Jim Crow Laws I    

Jim Crow Law II

Constitution

• Written Document Analysis
• Twenty-Sixth Amendment
• The Articles of Association
• The Lee Resolution
• John Locke's "Second Treatise on Government"
• Declaration of Independence Text
• 1837 Fourth of July Celebration
• What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
• The United States Constitution WebQuest
• Bill of Rights Draft

BILL OF RIGHTS

• Core Democratic Values of American Constitutional Democracy
• Goals of the Supreme Court
• Important Cases in Supreme Court History

SLAVERY IN AMERICA

    Triangle Slave Trade Organizer

    King Cotton Organizer

• United States Historical Census Data
• Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
• David Walker
• Harriet Jacobs

SECTIONALISM

    An Early Threat of Secession: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Nullification Crisis

• Missouri Compromise Map
• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Tariff of 1828
• Tariff of 1832
• Map of Slave Crops in the American South
• Economic Difference Between North and South
• South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
• President Jackson's Proclamation Regarding Nullification ( Paragraphs 6,27, 28,29,32)

Slavery's Opponents and Defenders

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass
• John C Calhoun
• James Henry Hammond

The Economics of Slavery: "Mud Sill" vs. Free Labor

•     Senator James Henry Hammond's March 4, 1858 speech                  
•     Lincoln's Annual Address Before the Washington State Agriculture Society   (September 30, 1859)

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