Conflict and Compromise: Events that Lead Up to the Civil War

                In order to learn about the events that lead up to and contributed to causing the Civil War in the United States, each group chose an event to research.  Our group researched John Brown and Harper’s Ferry.  We first created open ended questions to help guide our research.  We then answered these questions to create an outline for our essay.  We also found primary source images and short texts to analyze.  We then created captions for each source to further explain our event.  The main focus of the project was to show how the event contributed the conflict of the civil war and how it was an attempt (or failure) at compromise; most often between the North and South.  Our final project, a “scrapbook” could be in any digital form we chose.  Our group made a Prezi with our primary sources and captions and a link to our essay on a Google Document.  Each group then viewed the other groups’ projects to learn about the other events and see how they all related and led up to the Civil War.  To process this information, every group made a digital timeline with captions of all the events. 

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