The Feather That Broke the Camels Back

This week in our class, we learned about the election of 1860, which the last event that caused several states to secede, and really start the civil war. The essential question for this lesson was, "How were the results of the Election of 1860 representative of the deep divisions over slavery?" As we learned in previous lessons the Civil war did occur in just one specific event; instead the issue over slavery was spread over multiple incidents that occurred over the span of decades. This all lead up to the election of 1860, which was the event that broke the camels back, causing the succession seven  out of the eleven of the future Confederacy. For this lesson, we were split up into small groups of up to three students max. We then had to create a educreation video depicting a picture of one of the major events that lead up to the election of 1860 i.e. the Civil war. For our pictures, five out of the eight were already given to us. The remaining 3 pictures had to be found manually.





Picture sources

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1860

http://www.thenew93q.com/photo/ap/top-news/important-events-american-history/pts32/

http://www.kshs.org/p/kansas-state-capitol-online-tour-tragic-prelude/16595

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1532b.html

http://www.civilwarinart.org/exhibits/show/causes/introduction/the-election-of-1860-and-seces