ANTEBELLUM AMERICA, 1820-1850
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Free Lessons
Lesson List: Decision Making in History: Jackson / Causes of the Civil War
LESSON 1 – Election 1828: Who will you support in the 1828 Election?
LESSON 2 – Reforms in the 1830s: Which antebellum reforms will you support?
LESSON 3 – Election 1840: Who will you support in the 1840 Election?
LESSON 4 – Poverty and Workers: Will you support reforms for poverty and workers?
LESSON 5 – Abolition: What strategies will you take as an abolitionist?
LESSON 6 – Mexican War: What position will you take with Mexico? Will you declare war or negotiate with the British over Oregon?
LESSON 7 – Compromise of 1850: What position will you take with regard to slavery in the new territories? SAMPLE LESSON
LESSON 8 – Kansas-Nebraska Act: Will you support the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Sample Lesson: Mexican Territory: Decision Making in History
Critical Thinking in History: Antebellum America Annotated Bibliography
Published Materials
Free Critical Thinking Lesson: Misinformation
Free Lesson! Conspiracy Theories (1830-1860)
Free Lesson! Evaluating sources about the antebellum period according to the PROP criteria.
Free Lesson! Evaluating sources on slavery in the antebellum period according to the PROP criteria.
Free Lesson! Did the frontier shape American character? Evaluating cause-and-effect, Part 1.
Free Lesson! Did other frontiers shape the character of those people? Evaluating cause-and-effect, Part 2.
Which argument makes the strongest cause-and-effect connection about 1840s immigration?
SHORT LESSON: (Only 2 pages. Simplified, 10-minute version of the lesson to the left.)
Which argument makes the strongest cause-and-effect connection about 1840s immigration?
What caused American antebellum manufacturing to expand? Evaluating cause-and-effect.
How did industrialization change rural life. Analyzing a painting as an interpretation
What were the main underlying causes of the Mexican War? Creating an interpretation from evidence.
How reliable are sources on the causes of the Mexican War? Evaluating evidence.
Antebellum reforms: temperance, abolition, woman suffrage. Evaluating analogies, relevance, straw man fallacy.
