The Election that Changed Everthing

   This week, my class learned about the election of 1860. Our essential question for the unit was how were the results of the Election of 1860 representative of the deep divisions over slavery? To answer this question, my class was assigned to make a video using the application Educreations. We first gathered information by watching a Crash Course video by John Green. Next we looked at a map from the class lesson notes on edline. This map showed that Lincoln, who was against slavery and felt as though it should be contained, completely won over the north of the country. The majority of the North, like Lincoln, was against slavery. States between the North and South voted differently. In some states Bell was the popular vote. He wanted to preserve the Union as it is while keeping slavery. Douglas believed that the way slavery should be spread is only if the people decided on it, and the only state he managed to convince was Missouri. Lastly, Breckenridge maintained that slavery should have no limits; he won over the majority of the South. With this information, we gathered pictures from The Civil War in Art page to create our videos. My groups video is below.



The Civil War in Art:
http://www.civilwarinart.org/exhibits/show/causes/introduction/the-election-of-1860-and-seces

Edline Information page:
http://www.edline.net/files/_CJKPB_/ee553a2c7835765f3745a49013852ec4/Election_of_1860_Lesson_Notes.pdf

Other sources found at end of video.Ele