How were the results of the Election of 1860 representative of the deep divisions over slavery?
The above question was our essential question for this lesson. It is asking us if the opposing opinions on slavery affected the results of the Election of 1860. To start off this lesson, our class watched the John Green video below.
The John Green video showed us how the divisions in slavery caused Bleeding Kansas, affected the opinions on railroads, caused controversy with John Brown, made debate topics for Dred Scott and Sanford, etc. Then we took as look at theme map below. This map clearly shows how depending on where people lived there were different views on slavery in that area which influenced who the people in the area voted for in the election of 1860. Next we made an Educreations to tell the story in pictures. Our Educreation can be found here.
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