Eighth Grade Work on Missouri Compromise

Good work today on reading and interpreting the short documents on Texas Independence. We'll be doing more work of this kind this semester.

Today, you read page 536 in the textbook on Henry Clay's attempt to settle the slavery question and admit Missouri into the Union. Remember that to do this, Maine was admitted as a free state (to preserve the balance) and the line formed by Missouri's southern border became the determining line in the future for which new states would allow slavery and which ones would not. Then in class you downloaded this pdf here You'll find this interactive map useful in answering the questions. When you have completed it, drop it into your student assignment folder.

Chapter Nine, Section Three Questions

Students: Read section three of chapter nine (on slavery) and answer these three questions: 1. What kind of culture did slaves create in America? Give examples. 2. What were the ways African-Americans resisted slavery? 3. How did southern whites try to prevent slave rebellions? Why were they worried? Due tomorrow.

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Eighth Grade Work on Andrew Jackson

Today we discussed the Election of 1824 and the Election of 1828. For homework, students should read Chapter Ten, Section One and answer the following questions:

• What is the spoils system? What is good about it, and what is bad about it?
• How did Jackson expand democracy?
• What is nullification? What is secession?
• Find a modern example (from 2012 to 2013) of an American politician arguing for nullification or secession.

Answers can be written in the composition book, or in a pages/google doc and dropped in the assignment folder.