Early National
Jacksonian Democracy?
Students will engage in a structured academic controversy over the question of whether or not Andrew Jackson deserves to be on the $20 bill. Students will debate in groups the complexities of Andrew Jackson to reach a conclusion about whether or not Andrew Jackson should be celebrated today as a champion of democracy. Through participation in this lesson students will examine the issues of presentism in judging history, and prepare to think in the mindset of those living in the mid 19th century and to think for themselves in the present. The lesson will conclude with students writing an essay in which they use the documents associated with the lesson to construct and support their...
Seminole Resistance to the Indian Removal Act
As an extension of the Unit 8 Sequence 3 lesson on “The Trail of Tears” students would analyze primary sources dealing with the Second Seminole War for point of view and use primary sources as a basis for role play interviews where students take on different roles of characters involved in the war and are interviewed by reporter for Harper’s...
The Internal Slave Trade in the 19th Century
This lesson is designed for an AP Prep Class but could be modified to apply to a GT (gifted and talented) or an on-level class; though the latter will require manipulation of sources and/or use of more supportive reading instruction. The lesson covers the internal slave trade between the old eastern seaboard slave states and the rising slave states of the old southwest. It focuses on the economic and social history of the trade rather than the political implications.
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