ANTEBELLUM Bundle! 14 Activities - Expansion, Compromise, & Causes of Civil War

Planning a unit on the American antebellum? This bundle has 10+activities, 3 sets of short notes, AND includes a creative unit assessment. These activities cover topics including sectionalism, reform, antebellum presidents, Texas annexation, manifest destiny, Mexican-American War, and the Compromise of 1850.

Bundle of antebellum resources, including:

Gallery Walk/Stations

• Market Revolution (Emphasizes growing nationalism and sectionalism)
• Antebellum Reform Movements (8 primary & secondary sources on reform movements like abolition, women's rights/Seneca Falls, utopias, transcendentalism, etc.)
• Anti-Chinese Immigration Stations

Worksheets/Reading Activities

• Trails West Student Activity Packet
• Frontier Experiences Primary Sources (Includes Exodusters and pioneers)
• Texas Annexation Primary Sources
• Opposition to the Mexican-American War (Lincoln and Thoreau excerpts)
• Compromise of 1850 Summary

Activities

• Sectionalism Rap Battle
• Gold Rush Newspaper
• Antebellum Presidents Campaign Commercials
• Fugitive Slave Act Community Discussion Writing Activity
• Mexican-American War Newspaper from a Mexican perspective
• Antebellum Project (great for a unit assessment!)

Notes

• Trails West Guided Notes (Oregon, Mormon, Santa Fe)
• Mexican-American War
• Intro to the Abolitionist Movement
• Compromise of 1850

Here's the order I would use these activities:

1. Market Revolution and American System Gallery Walk (Introduce nationalism and sectionalism)
2. Sectionalism Rap Battle
3. Antebellum Presidents Campaign Activity
4. Antebellum Reform Movements Activities
5. Trails West Guided Notes & Student Activity
6. Experiences on the Frontier (great extension activity for westward expansion)
7. Gold Rush Newspaper (Easy homework/in-class student activity to teach the Gold Rush)
8. Anti-Chinese Immigration Stations
9. Texas-Annexation Debates
10. Mexican-American War Notes & Opposition Primary Source worksheet OR Mexican-American newspaper from the Mexican perspective
11. Abolitionist Propaganda Student Presentations
12. Compromise of 1850 Notes + Worksheet
13. Fugitive Slave Act Writing Activity (Great extension to further students' understanding of the FSA)
14. Antebellum PROJECT as a unit assessment

This bundle will provide you with a multitude of options to teach the ideas of expansion, conflict, and compromise in the American antebellum. You can pick and choose the activities you'd like to use...and enjoy them at a major discount!

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