Sectionalism & Westward Expansion: Socratic Seminar Style...

Happy Thursday Y'all,

      To prepare for the Socratic Seminar today, please REVISIT the relevant information from your previous articles.  Also, please review some of the media presentations provided to us by Hippocampus.org.  We will start after the first 20 minutes of class to give you ample time to prepare your thoughts.  Look over your notes.  Look over your highlighted text.  Look over your quickwrite.  look over the media.  Good luck and have fun!
Here, you will see the questions that will drive our SOCRATIC SEMINAR today. 
      1.  Think about what we know of Lincoln.  What did he believe he needed to do as the next president and a brand new fledgling Republican?

      2.  Why were Southerners so scared of and angry about the Republicans' views on the extension of slavery?

      3.  Looking back all the way to the land ordinance of 1787, the Louisiana Purchase, and then fastforwarding to what we know now about "sectional issues", how do you think Westward Expansion and Sectionalism are interrelated?  In other words, What links can you identify between these two issues in 19th Century United States?
    
      Sectionalism: is loyalty to the interests of one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole.  Sectionalism refers to the different economies, social structures, customs, and political values of the North and South.  It increased steadily 1800–1860 as the North, without slavery, industrialized, urbanized and built prosperous farms, while the deep South concentrated on plantation agriculture based on slave labor, together with subsistence farming for the poor whites. The South expanded into rich new lands in the Southwest (from Alabama to Texas).  However, slavery declined in the border states and could barely survive in cities and industrial areas (it was fading out in cities such as Baltimore, Louisville and St. Louis), so a South based on slavery was rural and non-industrial. On the other hand, as the demand for cotton grew the price of slaves soared. Historians have debated whether economic differences between the industrial Northeast and the agricultural South helped cause the Civil War.

      Below, you will find the backchannels for each of your CORES.  Please don't make me remind you of netiqette, or how to behave so that all can learn.
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Today's learning targets:
I can identify main ideas, analyze supporting details, and evaluate inferences within discipline specific media.  

I can apply content in order to evaluate relationships of people and ideas and to draw conclusions.

From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
School District of Waukesha
Waukesha STEM Academy