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  • A Nation in Crisis
    Summary: When Abraham Lincoln stepped to the podium in March 1861 to deliver his inaugural address, he faced a nation in crisis. Seven states had declared themselves out of the Union, and their representatives were meeting to create a new Confederate States of America.
    Subject: Abraham Lincoln; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Pottawatomie Massacre 1856; John Brown's Raid; Dred Scott Case; Compromise of 1850
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/748
    Is Part of: Lesson 14: The Civil War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
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  • Election of 1860
    Summary: By 1860 there was little holding the United States together. No national political party existed: the Democrats split, North versus South; the Republicans remained a northern party; and, the Whigs were gone. Increasingly the South believed that the North would not rest until slavery was gone and southern culture lay in ruin.
    Subject: John Bell; John C. Breckinridge; Stephen A. Douglas; Slavery; Abraham Lincoln
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Image Typical Learning Time: 5 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/729
    Is Part of: Lesson 13: House Dividing: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1021
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  • Emancipation
    Summary: Lincoln determined in mid 1862 that partial emancipation of the slaves held in areas under Confederate control was necessary. The dubious win at Antietam gave Lincoln the momentum he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
    Subject: Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; Emancipation Proclamation
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Image Typical Learning Time: 5 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/826
    Is Part of: Lesson 14: The Civil War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
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  • Fort Sumter
    Summary: This topic discusses the events at Fort Sumter and Lincoln's reaction.
    Subject: Fort Sumter; Confederacy; Abraham Lincoln
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/802
    Is Part of: Lesson 14: The Civil War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
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  • Lesson 13: House Dividing
    Summary: This lesson discusses the events that lead up to the Civil War. Beginning with descriptions of Antebellum Southern Society and abolitionism, the lesson goes on to discuss the presidency of Taylor, the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and the death of the Whig party and the emergence of the Republican party. The lesson ends discussing Bleeding Kansas, the Lecompton Constitution, the Dred Scott Case, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, John Brown's Raid, the Election of 1860, and Secession.
    Subject: Lecompton Constitution 1857; Martin Van Buren; John Brown's Raid; Zachary Taylor; Civil War; John C. Breckinridge; Lincoln-Douglas Debate; Yeoman Farmers; William Lloyd Garrison; Pottawatomie Massacre 1856; Sack of Lawrence; Whig Party; Poor Whites; Secession; Popular Sovereignty; Planters; Southern Society; Slavery; Stephen A. Douglas; Compromise of 1850; Gold Rush; Free Soil Party; Abraham Lincoln; Anti-Slavery Quakers; Republican Party; American Colonization Society; California; James Buchanan; Abolitionism; John Bell; King Cotton; John Woolman; Lewis Cass; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Mulattoes; Millard Fillmore; Dred Scott; Election of 1848; Free Blacks; American Revolution
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Image; Animation; Webpage; Text; Video Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1021
    Is Part of: Unit 4: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1149
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  • Lesson 13: Summary
    Summary: This topic is a summary of Lesson 13: A House Dividing.
    Subject: Abraham Lincoln; Slavery; Secession
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Image; Animation Typical Learning Time: 5 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/760
    Is Part of: Lesson 13: House Dividing: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1021
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  • Lesson 14: The Civil War
    Summary: Lesson 14 covers the Civil War beginning with describing the nation in crisis, James Buchanan and the Confederacy, and Fort Sumter. The four years of the Civil War are described and topics explored, such as, The Naval War, Emancipation, Soldier Life, African Americans and the war, and women and the war. The lesson ends with describing the Civil War as the first modern war and the war's results.
    Subject: Clara Barton; Anaconda Plan; Uniforms; Civil War; Joseph E. Johnston; Stonewall Jackson; Arms; Secession; Ambrose E. Burnside; Joseph Hooker; David Farragut; Battle of Antietam; Battle of Bull Run; Compromise of 1850; Confederacy; U.S. Grant; African Americans; Women; Winfield Scott; Abraham Lincoln; George B. McClellan; Emancipation Proclamation; Fort Sumter; Border States; Food; The Battle of Chickamaunga; Jefferson Davis; Health; Battle of Fort Donelson; Belle Boyd; Kansas-Nebraska Act; Pottawatomie Massacre 1856; George G. Meade; The Monitor; Robert E. Lee; The Seven Days Battle; The Virginia; Drafts and Exemptions; Election of 1864; James Buchanan; Dred Scott Case; Diversions; John Brown's Raid
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Video; Text; Image; Webpage; Animation Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
    Is Part of: Unit 4: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1149
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  • Lesson 15: Reconstruction
    Summary: This lesson covers the reconstruction topics such as Wartime, Presidential, and Congressional or Radical Reconstruction. Also included is the 1868 Presidential Election and the retreat and end of reconstruction
    Subject: Abraham Lincoln; Andrew Johnson; Compromise of 1877; Carpetbaggers; Black Codes; Election of 1868; Fifteenth Amendment; Confederates; Congressional Reconstruction; Impeachment; Freed Slaves; Fourteenth Amendment; Samuel J. Tilden; Scalawags; Sharecropping; South; Presidential Reconstruction; Radical Reconstruction; Reconstruction; Rutherford B. Hayes; Sufferage; John Wilkes Booth; U.S. Grant; Military Reconstruction Act; Wartime Reconstruction; Ten Percent Plan; Susan B. Anthony; Ku Klux Klan
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 3 
    Media Format: Webpage; Audio; Video; Animation; Text Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1055
    Is Part of: Unit 4: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1149
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  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate, 1858
    Summary: During the 1858 U.S. Senate campaign, veteran politician Stephen A. Douglas sparred with his unknown competitor, Abraham Lincoln, in a series of debates held in seven sites throughout Illinois.
    Subject: Kansas-Nebraska Act; Lincoln-Douglas Debate; Stephen A. Douglas; Abraham Lincoln; Slavery
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Animation; Image Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/812
    Is Part of: Lesson 13: House Dividing: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1021
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  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates
    Summary: This interactive describes the seven debates on issues regarding slavery between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858.
    Subject: Abolitionism; Slavery; Abraham Lincoln
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 1 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1077
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  • Northern Victory
    Summary: Grant did not forget the importance of reducing the southern will to resist as he focused on eliminating the Confederacy's principal armies. A Union victory at Mobile closed one of the last major ports in the South, and in January 1865 Federal forces took Fort Fisher by assault. This allowed them to occupy Wilmington, North Carolina, the only port still open in the South and the one that directly supplied Lee's army at Richmond.
    Subject: Confederacy; Abraham Lincoln; Robert E. Lee; U.S. Grant; Civil War
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Image; Video Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/719
    Is Part of: Lesson 14: The Civil War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
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  • Resources and Objectives
    Summary: Efforts at negotiating an end to the Civil War would continue throughout the conflict, but the events at Fort Sumter and subsequent actions by both factions made military force the primary means of achieving goals. There was a clear imbalance in resources between the north and south, and Lincoln would rely on that inequality to devise a set of objectives for achieving his goal of winning the war and preserving the Union.
    Subject: Jefferson Davis; The Virginia; The Monitor; Fort Sumter; Abraham Lincoln; Civil War
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Animation; Image Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/772
    Is Part of: Lesson 14: The Civil War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
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  • Secession and the Confederacy
    Summary: South Carolina held a convention and declared itself out of the Union on December 20, 1860, just a little more than a month after Lincoln was elected president of the United States. By the end of February 1861, six more states followed her example: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
    Subject: Alexander Stephens; Jefferson Davis; Abraham Lincoln; Civil War; Secession
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/778
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  • Texas Troubles
    Summary: In July 1860 a series of fires burned several North Texas communities, including Denton and Dallas. As word spread of the simultaneous incendiaries, a group of citizens, led by Dallas Morning News editor Charles R. Pryor, began linking the fires, arguing that slaves lit them, induced by northern Abolitionists as part of a larger terrorist plan that included murdering whites, pillaging their homes, and raping young women. Texans across the state reacted with fear, a response to both the alleged plot and the accelerating presidential campaign.
    Subject: Slavery; Abolitionism; Slave Revolt; Abraham Lincoln; Texas; John Brown; Election of 1860; Sucession; Southern Society; Civil War
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 0 
    Media Format: Animation Typical Learning Time: 2.5 hours
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/981
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  • The Final Year:1864-1865
    Summary: Lincoln had found his man in Grant, and in early 1864 he called him to Washington and made him general-in-chief of the armies of the United States. Grant responded by doing exactly what Lincoln wanted: employing all the superior resources of the national government against the Confederacy on every front, applying an unyielding and unmatchable pressure until the South collapsed.
    Subject: Civil War; Abraham Lincoln; U.S. Grant; Election of 1864
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Webpage; Image Typical Learning Time: 10 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/795
    Is Part of: Lesson 14: The Civil War: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1043
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  • The Home Front-American Socity
    Summary: In order to fight a war on the scale of World War II, and in order to win, the United States mobilized in ways that changed the nation permanently. 
    Subject: Increase in Presidential Power; Abraham Lincoln; W. Nimitz; Dwight D. Eisenhower; War Bonds and Victory Gardens; Continued Expansion of Federal Bureaucracy; Manhattan Project; The Office of War Mobilization and Conversion; Further Concentration of Industry; Waning of the New Deal; The GI Bill; Population Shifts; 1940s
    Course Name: U.S. History II Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: United States History Sub-Discipline: History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2009 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1948
    Is Part of: Lesson 24: The United States and World War II: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1766
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  • Unit 4
    Summary: This unit covers the events building toward war, the Civil War, and concludes with Reconstruction.
    Subject: Radical Reconstruction; Sufferage; Reconstruction; Presidential Reconstruction; Scalawags; Sharecropping; Rutherford B. Hayes; Ku Klux Klan; Samuel J. Tilden; South; Confederates; Compromise of 1877; Election of 1868; Congressional Reconstruction; Fifteenth Amendment; Fourteenth Amendment; Freed Slaves; Impeachment; John Wilkes Booth; Carpetbaggers; Arms; African Americans; Clara Barton; Ambrose E. Burnside; Anaconda Plan; Black Codes; Andrew Johnson; Women; U.S. Grant; Winfield Scott; Uniforms; Robert E. Lee; Joseph Hooker; The Seven Days Battle; The Virginia; Kansas-Nebraska Act; The Battle of Chickamaunga; Joseph E. Johnston; Stonewall Jackson; Jefferson Davis; James Buchanan; The Monitor; Pottawatomie Massacre 1856; Drafts and Exemptions; Dred Scott Case; Health; Battle of Fort Donelson; Battle of Antietam; George G. Meade; Food; Election of 1864; George B. McClellan; Emancipation Proclamation; Fort Sumter; Diversions; U.S. Grant; Military Reconstruction Act; Ten Percent Plan; Wartime Reconstruction; Belle Boyd; Susan B. Anthony; David Farragut; Border States; Compromise of 1850; Battle of Bull Run; Free Soil Party; Abolitionism; Election of 1848; Dred Scott; James Buchanan; Gold Rush; California; Anti-Slavery Quakers; Kansas-Nebraska Act; King Cotton; Abraham Lincoln; John Woolman; John Bell; Compromise of 1850; Confederacy; John C. Breckinridge; Sack of Lawrence; Secession; William Lloyd Garrison; Poor Whites; American Colonization Society; American Revolution; Yeoman Farmers; Zachary Taylor; Southern Society; Stephen A. Douglas; Pottawatomie Massacre 1856; Lincoln-Douglas Debate; Martin Van Buren; Lecompton Constitution 1857; Lewis Cass; Mulattoes; Civil War; Millard Fillmore; Popular Sovereignty; Planters; Free Blacks; John Brown's Raid; Slavery; Whig Party; Republican Party
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 4 
    Media Format: Text; Image; Webpage; Animation; Audio; Video Typical Learning Time: 10 hours
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1149
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  • Wartime Reconstruction, 1861-1865
    Summary: This topic discusses the first phase of the Reconstruction, or Wartime Reconstruction. It includeds Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan and the assasination of President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth.
    Subject: Wartime Reconstruction; Ten Percent Plan; Abraham Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth
    Course Name: U.S. History I Course Level: Level 2 
    Media Format: Image; Webpage Typical Learning Time: 20 minutes
    Discipline: History Sub-Discipline: United States History
    Author: McMichael, Kelly Affiliation: University of North Texas
    Date Created: 2008 License files: Original License
    Permalink: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/790
    Is Part of: Lesson 15: Reconstruction: http://txcdk1.unt.edu/TCRR/handle/2188/1055
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