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Eyes on the Storm

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COMBINED RATING

4.4 Stars

TEACHERS (2)

4.0

STUDENTS (8)

4.8

LENGTH

15 Minutes

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Description

Take on the role as the Commissioner for the fictional Office of Interstate Affairs (OIA), whose goal is to monitor events happening across the US and advise agents, law enforcement and any other appropriate bodies how they should act to resolve the situation., while engaging with rising tensions boiling across the country and within government through a series of historically inspired case files.

Vocabulary Words

Slavery

Sectional tensions

Popular Sovereignty

Secession

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about A Nation Divided. Suitable for Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Assess how repeated attempts at political compromise failed to resolve growing sectional and moral divisions over slavery.

Compare constitutional interpretations of federal and state authority used by Northern and Southern leaders in the debate over slavery.

Describe how Northerners and Southerners responded differently to the Fugitive Slave Act.

Assess the political and emotional arguments used in secessionist writings and songs from the South.

Explain Southern justifications for slavery and secession, including states’ rights and economic dependency.

Assess how acts of violence, including “Bleeding Kansas” and the caning of Charles Sumner, reflected the breakdown of political compromise.

Evaluate how literature and media, such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin and abolitionist newspapers, influenced public opinion on slavery.

Interpret the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott case and its effect on national debates over slavery and citizenship.

Analyze the impact of the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas-Nebraska Act on national unity and division.

Explain how slavery contributed to increasing sectional tensions between the North and South.

Discuss how national leaders’ speeches and actions revealed growing irreconcilable differences over slavery.

Evaluate Lincoln’s early political arguments against slavery’s expansion, including through the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Evaluate John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry and his speech before execution as symbols of resistance and national division.

Describe the positions and rhetorical strategies used in the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What does it mean for the nation to be divided? What was happening that was making the nation divide?

After the Game

What key factors lead to the division of the US? How did this division effect the South? How did this division effect the North?

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