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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness – Chapter 6

1005 minutes

32 Items

Chapter 6 Introductory Essay: 1828-1844

Essay

7214 Words

John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule

Essay

2187 Words

Art Analysis: The County Election by George Caleb Bingham, 1852

Activity

40 Min

Sam Houston and Texas Independence

Essay

2698 Words

Portrait of Robert Hayne.

The Nullification Crisis

Essay

2939 Words

John C. Calhoun, South Carolina Exposition and Protest, 1828

Activity

40 Min

The Trail of Tears

Essay

2772 Words

American Indians in American Art

Activity

American Indians in American Art Graphic Organizer Handout

Activity

Responses to the Cherokee Removal Mini DBQ Student Packet

Activity

Indian Removal Act, 1830, and Cherokee Chief John Ross’s Memorial and Protest to Congress, 1836

Activity

40 Min

Cartoon of three men fighting a monstrous snake-like creature with multiple human heads. The man on the left holds a cane that says “veto” on it. The man on the right has dropped his axe.

Andrew Jackson’s Veto of the National Bank

Essay

2903 Words

Portrait of Daniel Webster.

Webster-Hayne Debates, 1830

Activity

40 Min

Andrew Jackson, Bank Veto Message, 1832

Activity

40 Min

John C. Calhoun, “Slavery as a Positive Good,” 1837

Activity

40 Min

Image of slaves attacking men, women, and children (top), while the bottom panel shows armed men on horseback chasing the slaves away.

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Essay

2860 Words

The Mormon Trail

Essay

2555 Words

The Women’s Movement and the Seneca Falls Convention

Lesson

55 Min

David Walker, “An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World,” 1829

Activity

40 Min

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845

Activity

40 Min

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Struggle for Women’s Suffrage

Essay

2406 Words

Sarah M. Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, 1837

Activity

40 Min

Dorothea Dix, Memorial to the Legislation of Massachusetts, 1843

Activity

40 Min

Is the Concurrent Majority Theory Faithful to the Ideals of the Constitution?

Activity

40 Min

Is the Concurrent Majority Theory Faithful to the Ideals of the Constitution Graphic Organizer

Activity

40 Min

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835

Activity

40 Min

The Lowell Girls

Essay

2639 Words

John Quincy Adams and the Amistad

Essay

2007 Words

Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” 1837

Activity

40 Min

Jedediah Burchard, Revivalist Sermon, 1835

Activity

40 Min

The Rise of Mass Politics: Jacksonian Democracy | BRI’s Homework Help Series

Video

5 Min

Liberty and Union Student Document Packet

Activity