Introduce students to the push and pull factors that led to high levels of immigration from Germany and Ireland from 1830 to 1860. Facilitation Notes: This activity is designed for groups of five students. The activity works best if each student only sees their printed primary source. The students should have some background knowledge on the European industrial revolution and its impact on urban growth and immigration in the United States.This lesson targets the foundational skills of analyzing documents, grouping documents, and constructing a thesis as required of the DBQ essay on the AP exam.

What attempts were made to resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. territories?

Use this Lesson alongside theJohn Brown and Harpers Ferry Narrative to allow students to fully evaluate John Brown's approach to abolitionism. Facilitation Notes: Use available classroom technology to display a United States map so that they are within view throughout the lesson. Also, write theKey Questionon the board so that it is in view throughout the lesson.

Use this Lesson with The Election of 1860 Narrative and the South Carolina Secession Debate, 1860 Primary Source to allow students to analyze the motivations of South Carolina to secede from the United States.

Two scholars debate this question.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source imagery to analyze major events in history.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source text to explore key historical events.

Use this primary source imagery to analyze major events in history.

Why did sectionalism increase during the Antebellum era?

Explores the unique culture and history of Tucson.

What antislavery parties existed in the 19th century?

Explores the history of the gold rushes in California.

Investigates Harriet Tubman's role in the fight to end slavery.

How did the Fugitive Slave Act galvanize abolitionism in Boston?

Investigates Harriet Stowe's contributions to abolitionism.

Why did the U.S. want to open trade with Japan?

How did immigration lead to nativist backlash in America?

Explores the Kansas-Nebraska Act and sectionalism.

Explores the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor.

Was John Brown a righteous crusader or violent radical?

How did the election of 1860 lead to the Civil War?

By the end of this section, you will explain the causes and effects of westward expansion from 1844 to 1877.

By the end of this section, you will explain the causes and effects of westward expansion from 1844 to 1877.

By the end of this section, you will explain the causes and effects of westward expansion from 1844 to 1877.

By the end of this section, you will explain the similarities and differences in how regional attitudes affected federal policy in the period after the Mexican–American War.

Was the Civil War inevitable?

Answer Key for Chapter 7 of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness