Name: Sectionalism
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

This homework activity teaches students about the sectional differences between the different regions of the United States which grew during the 19th century.

THE NORTH

Students learn about the growth of factories and other industries and the importance of tariffs to protect against foreign competition. Also introduces students to the growing anti-slavery movement in many northern states.

THE SOUTH

Covers the major crops grown in the southern states and the importance of slave labor. Also explains southern opposition to tariffs which hurt their trading relations with other nations, especially Great Britain.

THE WEST

Teaches about the desire of many westerners to gain government funding for roads and canals as well as their opposition to the expansion of slavery into new territories.

ACTIVITIES

Students can work on a map activity to illustrate and summarize the different sectional differences (examples included in the file). There is also a small crossword activity which students can use to help them research through the reading sheets.

PRESENTATION

Includes a short Powerpoint presentation with images and enlarged reading sections to help guide teachers and students through the materials.

FILE TYPES

Files come in pdf and editable Powerpoint formats for you to make any changes you need. There are also folders containing jpg images of different slides and pages which teachers can upload to their own websites or google classrooms for students to access.

What's included

A reading sheet setting out the northern, southern and western positions on tariffs, land, internal improvements and slavery, with a three-section diagram and the poster instructions printed alongside
A poster template headed SECTIONALISM with THE NORTH, THE WEST and THE SOUTH marked out
A cover sheet with NAME, CLASS, GRADE and DUE lines and a marking strip scoring Neatness, Contents, Summary and Illustration out of ten each
Two labelled picture sheets: a mid-1820s United States map, New England cotton mill, cloth weaving machine, clipper trading ship, northern factory workers, anti-slavery society, southern tobacco plantation, slaves processing cotton, slave auction, cotton plant, settlers crossing the Appalachians, western farmer, canal lock, road construction and a western anti-slavery poster
A crossword of thirteen clues drawn from the reading, covering tariffs, plantations, southern crops, canals, roads, factories and the party split over slavery
A twenty-slide presentation version that enlarges the reading section by section, ending with the instructions and the crossword
A shorter seven-page alternate version built around a GLUE HERE panel and the three section headings
The whole set in PDF and PowerPoint form, plus a compressed PDF and folders of JPEG exports of every page and slide

Resource types: Activities

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

State what each of the three sections wanted from the federal government on tariffs, land sales and internal improvements
Explain why northern factory owners and southern planters took opposite positions on the same tariff
Describe how the question of slavery divided the three sections, including western opposition to its spread
Summarise and illustrate the three sections' differences in a single poster
Recall key terms — sectionalism, tariffs, plantations, internal improvements — through the crossword

Teaching tips

Hand out the cover sheet with the task; the marking strip tells students in advance that neatness and illustration carry as much weight as contents and summary
The presentation version enlarges the reading one section at a time, which makes it the better route for a class reading together before the poster work begins
Set the crossword first if students need to slow down over the reading — its clues send them back to the same paragraphs the poster draws on
The picture sheets are labelled, so students can cut and place images without needing to identify them first; that keeps the poster work about the argument rather than about picture research
The seven-page alternate version with the GLUE HERE panel suits a notebook foldable when a full poster is more than the lesson has room for

Skills covered

Reading history for position — students separate what the North, the South and the West each wanted from a single continuous passage rather than from three labelled lists.
Comparing economic interests — the reading sets factory owners wanting high tariffs against planters who imported British goods, so the same policy is seen from two sides.
Summarising into a poster — the printed instruction asks for a poster that both summarises and illustrates the three sections' economies and government demands.
Selecting and placing evidence — labelled picture sheets give students images such as a canal lock, a slave auction and a clipper ship to assign to the right section.
Vocabulary recall — the thirteen-clue crossword works over sectionalism, tariffs, plantations, internal improvements and the parties split by slavery.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What is the poster task exactly?

The printed instruction reads: use the information to create a poster summarising and illustrating the differences between the three sections in their economies and in what they wanted the government to do. A template already divided into THE NORTH, THE WEST and THE SOUTH is supplied, along with labelled pictures to cut and place.

How is the finished work marked?

A strip across the cover sheet gives four scales — Neatness, Contents, Summary and Illustration — each scored from 0 to 10, beside NAME, CLASS, GRADE and DUE lines. Handing the cover out with the task tells students what the poster is being judged on.

Why does the same material appear several times in the download?

It is supplied in parallel formats rather than repeated by mistake: a PDF, a compressed PDF, a PowerPoint copy, a twenty-slide presentation version, a shorter seven-page alternate built around a GLUE HERE panel, and folders of JPEG exports of every page and slide for uploading to a class site.