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Unit Plan
C3 Teachers

C3 Teachers: u.s. History Module: Did Charles Sumner Deserve It? [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
A comprehensive learning module on the abolitionist Charles Sumner that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics addressed include...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: "Bleeding Kansas" and "Bleeding Sumner"

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about how the concept of popular sovereignty expressed in the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in political intrigue and murder in Kansas and the caning of a U.S. Senator in the Senate chamber.
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Handout
Other

Us Gen Net: American Local History Network: The Struggle for Kansas

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed, 5-page article giving an in-depth look at the problems in Kansas after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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Handout
Other

Fca Homeschool: History 806

For Students 9th - 10th
A sample lesson plan covering the sectionalism and problems facing the nation in its debate on slavery in the 1850s.
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Primary
Emory University

Lewis H. Beck Center: Child, Lydia: How a Kentucky Girl Emancipated Her Slaves

For Students 9th - 10th
Download the full text to Lydia Maria Child's "How a Kentucky Girl Emancipated Her Slaves." This account of a woman who freed her slaves was originally written by Lydia Child in 1862 and published in The New York Tribune.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Canefight! Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner

For Students 5th - 8th
Violence associated with strong feelings about slavery entered the halls of the Senate. Read what happened to Senator Charles Sumner after a two-day tirade he gave in the Senate after the sack of Lawrence, Kansas.
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Handout
US Senate

U.s. Senate: The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes Preston Brooks' attack on Senator Charles Sumner, May 22, 1856, in the Senate after Sumner's famous speech, "Crimes Against Kansas."
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Trouble in Kansas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains information about the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the violence that followed in Kansas. It contains photographs of key figures.