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Section 2 - Sectional Conflicts and National Politics
John Brown's Legacy - Historical Assessment of Thinking From Beyond the Bubble, assesses student ability to source and contextualize documents, include rubric



Teaching Bias using Lincoln Quotes

Section 4 - The South Secedes


===Evaluating Evidence === This interactive guides teachers through the process of evaluating primary sources and determining their support of a given thesis. Using the Civil War as the example, teachers rank the relevancy of sources in relation to four common beliefs as to the cause of the war.

Family Feud Cartoon on the causes of the Civil War media type="youtube" key="7ZajcXw3aho" height="315" width="420"

Popular Sovereignty media type="youtube" key="q9Y3jtMsGIw" height="315" width="560"