The Essential Question posed to our class this week was: ‘How were the results of the Election of 1860 representative of the deep divisions over slavery?’ As an intro to the lesson, our class watched one of John Green’s Crash Course videos on the Election of 1860 (a link can be found at the bottom of this post). This video explained that the growing issue of slavery caused problems like Bleeding Kansas. The country was divided into many sections: Stephen A. Douglas believed that people should be able to vote on whether slavery should exist or not (popular sovereignty), John C. Breckenridge believed that slavery was the priority and all blacks were inferior to whites, Abraham Lincoln was wholly against slavery, and John Bell wanted to keep the Union as is and not change any rules, including those about slavery. Despite all of these candidates, Lincoln ended up winning this huge election, who campaigned for anti-slavery and started the Civil War. As a way to tie this all up, our class went onto the Civil War in Art website and looked at & analyzed five photographs. Our group then made a mini-documentary with Educreations to answer the essential question about the events encompassing the Election of 1860 and. My group's Educreations video is below.
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