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__Readings__: -  Text: Chapters 14-17 -  //A People’s History of the United States//: Chapters 9 & 10 -  Video: //How the West was Lost: The Dakota Conflict// -  Handouts __Themes__: 1.  Ideas & justifications for expansion into the West 2.  The ideas that divided the nation 3.  When to compromise and when not to? 4.  How the South tried to rebuild slavery by calling it something else __Content__: ·  Expansion and Manifest Destiny ·  How expansion intensified sectional differences ·  The rise of the Republican Party ·  The steps toward southern secession ·  Social & political changes caused by the Civil War ·  The Emancipation Proclamation ·  Competing plans for reconstruction of the South ·  Life for African Americans in the South after the Civil War __Projects__: ** U.S. Expansion Project: ** Each student may do one of the following projects for extra credit: 1. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Design the cover of a newspaper during the Mexican-American War. Your main article must be a summary about the conflict, itself. You must have at least three smaller articles, of your choosing, of events that were taking place at the same time. Your page must be decorative and include at least two advertisements. 2. <span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Design a newspaper page that focuses on an ad encouraging people to “Go West”. This ad will be the main focus of the page. It must reflect either realities about moving west or stereotypes and myths about moving west. Then, you must have at least 3 sideline stories on the page, of your choosing, which describes events that were going on during the same time. Finally, the page must have at least two small ads for relevant items of the time. __Discussions__: 1. <span style="color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Was the Civil War its own play or just a scene in a larger play called “Expansion”? 2. <span style="color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Why does the Civil War get three chapters in most textbooks, while the Indian Wars (lasting 30 years) only receive one section within a chapter? 3. <span style="color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Should Lincoln be remembered as the “great emancipator” or just a pragmatic politician, who really only wanted to save the Union? 4. <span style="color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> Has Reconstruction ended?
 * Unit 4: Expansion **** è ** ** Civil War Reconstruction (4 weeks) [[image:Civil_War_2.jpg width="231" height="241" align="right" link="http://www.civilwar.com/"]] **

__Movies__:  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> [|****Jeremiah Johnson****] - one man's rugged effort to shed the burden of civilization and learn to survive in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> **Andersonville** - The most infamous Confederate prisoner of war camp in the Civil War.  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> **[|Gods & Generals]** - Gods and Generals follows the rise and fall of "Stonewall Jackson".  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> **[|Gettysburg]** - In 1863, the North & South fought in the most decisive battle of the Civil War.  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> **[|Gangs of New York]** - The most powerful NY gang was the Natives, who believed America should belong to native-born Americans and opposed the waves of immigrants.  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> [|****Glory****] **- Robert Gould Shaw leads the Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both their own Union army and the Confederates.**  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;">[|****Little Women****] – As their father fights in the Civil War, four sisters grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances.  <span style="color: windowtext; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; fontsizeadjust: none; fontstretch: normal;"> **[|Cold Mountain]**- In the last days of the Civil War, a wounded soldier goes on a perilous journey back home to North Carolina, to reunite with his love.