Week 7: Split Vote, Split Nation

Week 7: Split Vote, Split Nation

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman "was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad." (Wiki)

Underground Railroad: “The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-1800s, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The scheme was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees.” (Wiki)

Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Ralph Waldo Emerson "was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century." (Wiki)

Transcendentalism Movement: “Transcendentalism is a 19th-century school of American theological and philosophical thought that combined respect for nature and self-sufficiency with elements of Unitarianism and German Romanticism. Writer Ralph Waldo Emerson was the primary practitioner of the movement, which existed loosely in Massachusetts in the early 1800s before becoming an organized group in the 1830s.” (History.com)

 The results of the Presidential Election of 1860:

Timeline Dates:

1822-1913 – Harriet Tubman  

1831-1863 – Underground Railroad  

1811 – 1896 – Harriet Beecher Stowe  

1852 – ​Uncle Tom’s Cabin ​ published  

November 6, 1860 – Lincoln elected 

Scholar Challenges:  

1. Complete the body of your essay. 

2. Complete timeline assignment. 

3. Primary source study preparation of state letter of secession. 

4. Start reading ​Abraham Lincoln ​ by Wilbur F. Gordy.  Due ________. 

5. Continue your memorization work. 

6. Start memorizing the “Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln.

Please double check that you have done the following assignments:

-Journal:  What is your mission?  If you are unsure, write about what you would like your mission to  be.

-Journal:  Why is slavery wrong?

-Journal writing:  Did the Supreme Court get the Dred-Scot decision right? Support your thoughts.  Cite information from the decision to support your answer.

-Journal:  Write three paragraphs about what you would have done differently in your debate and what you did well.