Topic: Causes of the Civil War (C3 D2.His.14.9-12). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: U.S. geography and westward expansion; how Congress and the Supreme Court work; reading and sourcing a primary document.
Key vocabulary: sectionalism, popular sovereignty, abolition, secession, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Warm-up idea: Show maps of free and slave states and territories in 1820 and 1854 and ask what changed and why it mattered.
Exit ticket idea: Students rank three events by how much they increased tension between North and South and defend their top choice with evidence.
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