Tasks:
- Today, we will use selected video excerpts to better understand the increasing sectional tension in the nation over the expansion of slavery into western territories.
- Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and answer the question "How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act address the issue of slavery?"
- Watch video excerpt from Africans in America, and answer the question "How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act increase sectional tension?"
- Discuss the destruction of the 2nd American Party System.
- The political system is increasingly sectionalized. The Whigs, a political party created during Jackson's presidency, will dissolve in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and a new political coalition, the Republicans, are created.
- Watch "The Early Republican Party" (begin at minute 7:43) and identify the ideology of the early Republican Party.
Reminders:
- Annotated Bibliography due Friday 11/20
