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Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the Civil War - The 1860 Election in Pennsylvania

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Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of the Civil War - The 1860 Election in Pennsylvania

Grade Levels

10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade, 9th Grade

Course, Subject

Civics and Government, Geography, History
Related Academic Standards
5.3.12.E 5.3.12.E

Evaluate the fairness and effectiveness of the United States electoral processes, including the electoral college.
7.3.12.A 7.3.12.A

Analyze the human characteristics of places and regions using the following criteria:

  • Population
  • Culture
  • Settlement
  • Economic activities
  • Political activities
8.1.12.B 8.1.12.B

Evaluate the interpretation of historical events and sources, considering the use of fact versus opinion, multiple perspectives, and cause and effect relationships.
8.2.12.A 8.2.12.A

Evaluate the role groups and individuals from Pennsylvania played in the social, political, cultural, and economic development of the US and the world.
8.2.12.B 8.2.12.B

Evaluate the impact of historical documents, artifacts, and places in Pennsylvania which are critical to U.S. history and the world.
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  • Big Ideas
    Characteristics, distribution, and migration of human populations impact culture, economic interdependence, settlement patterns, and control of the Earth’s surface.
    Geographic representations are essential to explain the spatial organization of people, places, and environments.
    Geography is used to explain the past, interpret the present, and plan for the future.
    Historical context is needed to comprehend time and space.
    Historical interpretation involves an analysis of cause and result.
    Perspective helps to define the attributes of historical comprehension.
    Places and regions have physical and human characteristics, and one’s culture and experiences may influence perception of place.
    The history of the Commonwealth continues to influence Pennsylvanians today, and has impacted the United States and the rest of the world.
  • Concepts
    Biography is a historical construct used to reveal positive and/or negative influences an individual can have on Pennsylvania’s society.
    Comprehension of the experiences of individuals, society, and how past human experience has adapted builds aptitude to apply to civic participation.
    Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending society in the Pennsylvania.
    Conflict and cooperation among social groups, organizations, and nation-states are critical to comprehending society in the Pennsylvania. Domestic instability, ethnic and racial relations, labor relation, immigration, and wars and revolutions are examples of social disagreement and collaboration.
    Cultural changes influence people's perceptions of places and regions.
    Current and past settlement patterns construct place and region.
    Demographic characteristics of populations influence migration streams over time.
    Demographic trends, including spatial distribution, size, and density, stimulate patterns of population distribution and movement.
    Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions.
    Historical causation involves motives, reasons, and consequences that result in events and actions. Some consequences may be impacted by forces of the irrational or the accidental.
    Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context of events and actions.
    Historical literacy requires a focus on time and space, and an understanding of the historical context, as well as an awareness of point of view.
    Human activity, including cultural conflicts and forces of cultural convergence, has an effect on the human characteristics of place and region.
    Human organizations work to socialize members and, even though there is a constancy of purpose, changes occur over time.
    Learning about the past and its different contexts shaped by social, cultural, and political influences prepares one for participation as active, critical citizens in a democratic society.
    Patterns of physical features and spatial patterns of human features change over time.
    Social entities clash over disagreement and assist each other when advantageous.
    Spatial patterns of political units, including role of political alliances and the impact of political conflicts, fashion the division and control of the Earth’s surface.
    State and local history can offer an individual judicious understanding about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    State and local history can offer an individual, discerning judgment in public and personal life, supply examples for living, and thinking about one’s self in the dimensions of time and space.
    Technology reshapes spatial processes of cultural convergence and divergence.
    Textual evidence, material artifacts, the built environment, and historic sites are central to understanding the history of Pennsylvania.
    The spatial distribution of economic activities are reshaping businesses and effecting changes and movements in factors of production.
  • Competencies
    Analyze a primary source for accuracy and bias and connect it to a time and place in Pennsylvania.
    Analyze how perception and self-interests play a role in conflict over territory and resources.
    Analyze how the communications and transportation technologies, that contribute to cultural convergences, may also stimulate cultural divergence.
    Articulate the context of a historical event or action.
    Compare the characteristics of settlement in developing and developed countries.
    Construct a biography of a Pennsylvanian and generate conclusions regarding his/her qualities and limitations.
    Describe how social, cultural, and economic processes shape the features of places.
    Evaluate cause-and-result relationships bearing in mind multiple causations.
    Evaluate the impact of population numbers and patterns, including human migration, on physical and human systems.
    Explain why places have specific physical and human characteristics in different parts of the world that impact economic activity.
    Summarize how conflict and compromise in Pennsylvania history impact contemporary society.
    Synthesize a rationale for the study of individuals in Pennsylvania history.

Description

The election of 1860 was a watershed event in American history and Pennsylvania was an important state in that election. In this lesson students will compare the national candidates party platforms and will determine the best campaign strategy for Lincoln to win Pennsylvania's electoral votes.

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The idea for ExplorePAhistory.com first took shape early in the year 2000. Kathleen Pavelko, President and CEO of WITF, Inc. (Harrisburg's PBS and NPR affiliate), imagined the creation of an online resource that would make innovative use of the nearly 2,000 historical markers that the state's official history agency, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), had been placing on the Pennsylvania landscape since 1946. The new web site would make Pennsylvania and American history more exciting and available to public audiences, while providing educational resources for K-12 teachers and promoting visitation to the state's many historic sites and museums. When Pavelko and her colleagues from the Pennsylvania Public Television Network presented the idea for such a web site to officials at the PHMC, they quickly agreed to a partnership. And ExplorePAhistory.com was born.

 

ExplorePAhistory.com was launched in the spring of 2003 with support from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, the William Penn Foundation, and the United States Department of Education. From the start, WITF has assumed responsibilities for project management, while PHMC has taken on content management responsibilities. WITF has managed funds and overseen the site's initial technical development by Pittsburgh-based firm Ripple Effects Interactive and subsequent development by MATRIX, a program based at Michigan State University. PHMC has worked with the Pennsylvania Historical Association, the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, and history professionals across the state to create the site's content. The two partners also worked with the Ridgway School District to secure and manage Teaching American History Grants and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to produce educational content.

 

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