ANTEBELLUM Bundle! 14 Activities - Expansion, Compromise, & Causes of Civil War
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Planning a unit on the American antebellum? This bundle has 10+activities, 3 sets of short notes, AND includes a creative unit assessment. These activities cover topics including sectionalism, reform, antebellum presidents, Texas annexation, manifest destiny, Mexican-American War, and the Compromise of 1850.
Bundle of antebellum resources, including:
Gallery Walk/Stations
- Market Revolution (Emphasizes growing nationalism and sectionalism)
- Antebellum Reform Movements (8 primary & secondary sources on reform movements like abolition, women's rights/Seneca Falls, utopias, transcendentalism, etc.)
- Anti-Chinese Immigration Stations
Worksheets/Reading Activities
- Trails West Student Activity Packet
- Frontier Experiences Primary Sources (Includes Exodusters and pioneers)
- Texas Annexation Primary Sources
- Opposition to the Mexican-American War (Lincoln and Thoreau excerpts)
- Compromise of 1850 Summary
Activities
- Sectionalism Rap Battle
- Gold Rush Newspaper
- Antebellum Presidents Campaign Commercials
- Fugitive Slave Act Community Discussion Writing Activity
- Mexican-American War Newspaper from a Mexican perspective
- Antebellum Project (great for a unit assessment!)
Notes
- Trails West Guided Notes (Oregon, Mormon, Santa Fe)
- Mexican-American War
- Intro to the Abolitionist Movement
- Compromise of 1850
Here's the order I would use these activities:
- Market Revolution and American System Gallery Walk (Introduce nationalism and sectionalism)
- Sectionalism Rap Battle
- Antebellum Presidents Campaign Activity
- Antebellum Reform Movements Activities
- Trails West Guided Notes & Student Activity
- Experiences on the Frontier (great extension activity for westward expansion)
- Gold Rush Newspaper (Easy homework/in-class student activity to teach the Gold Rush)
- Anti-Chinese Immigration Stations
- Texas-Annexation Debates
- Mexican-American War Notes & Opposition Primary Source worksheet OR Mexican-American newspaper from the Mexican perspective
- Abolitionist Propaganda Student Presentations
- Compromise of 1850 Notes + Worksheet
- Fugitive Slave Act Writing Activity (Great extension to further students' understanding of the FSA)
- Antebellum PROJECT as a unit assessment
This bundle will provide you with a multitude of options to teach the ideas of expansion, conflict, and compromise in the American antebellum. You can pick and choose the activities you'd like to use...and enjoy them at a major discount!
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