Students on the John Brown passage should have answered on their page(period 1 is the exception) How does the reaction to John Brown differ from the North to the South and how could it be a cause for war?
In class we also looked at Frederick Douglass speech in which he discussed the Fourth of July and George Fitzhugh's speech about why slavery isn't too bad. The big idea we are trying to get at is that the in the North the issue is all about Freedom and Independence, and how can we go on basically until that issue has been dealt with. In the south the debate is more that slavery is simply a job and not the worst one. They look at slavery in different eyes and it is much different to both. We finished class with looking at Dred Scott and his court case. Students are to do the questions on it and then using that knowledge apply it to Lincoln's "house divided against itself" speech. Homework attached.
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