Election of 1860

The essential question for the lesson the Election of 1860 is: Were the results of the election of 1860 representative of the deep divisions over slavery. To start off this lesson, we watched a Crash Course video. This video helped to show how the slavery caused divisions for some events. Events like the Fugitive slave law and the Dred Scott vs Sanford case. After watching the video, we took a look at the Election of 1860 results map. Lincoln is represented in red and was against slavery and felt it should be contained. Shown in dark blue, Douglas believed that the expansion of slavery should be determined using popular sovereignty. Bell wanted to preserve the constitution and the Union as it was and he is represented by pink. The light blue represents Breckenridge who believed there should be no limits on slavery. Here is the map:

The main activity for this lesson was to create a video that explained the essential question and the events surrounding the Election of 1860. Our video had to include the 5 images that were found on the Civil War in Art website and an additional 3 images that help support the story. To begin my partner and I read the information provided on the Civil War in Art website and took notes on the 5 images. After completing that research, we found 3 additional images. We chose to use an image to represent the Dred Scott case, one to represent Jefferson Davis, and one to show the attack on Fort Sumter. We also took notes on each image. Before starting our video we wrote out a script. For each slide we would record a little blurb about that event to help tell the story. We used Educreations to create our video. Here is our video:

Citations: 
~Dred Scott Decision Image- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford 
~Jefferson Davis Image- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis 
~Attack on Fort Sumter image- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Battle_of_Fort_Sumter 
~Other images- http://www.civilwarinart.org/exhibits/show/causes/introduction/the- election-of-1860-and-seces