Viewing History

In class we learned about the Election of 1860. The essential question for this lesson was, “How were the results of the Election of 1860 representative of the deep division over slavery?” To start of the lesson we watched a Crash Course video by John Green. The video helped the class understand the overall topic. After we watched the video we viewed a map that showed the states and the candidates they voted for. The map showed Lincoln having more votes in the North votes and Breckenridge having the majority votes in the South. This was no surprise because Lincoln was a republican wanted to abolish slavery whereas down south where they valued slavery, and voted for Breckenridge who is democratic and pro slavery. The South relied on slavery to keep their economy going, and wanted someone in office that would guarantee that slavery would stay. The in between states voted for candidates like Bell who was for the Union but did not want to abolish slavery. This map helped display the division of states. The northern states mostly voted for anti slavery candidates and the southern states mostly voted for pro slavery candidates. Afterwards, we read an article called, The Civil War in Art. The article explained the events of the Civil war depicted through pictures. Our class split up into little groups and captioned each photo. We then later went on and found three more pictures and captioned those as well. Each group created a video in Educreations of how the pictures helped tell the story of the Civil War.

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