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Teaching History: Ask a Historian: Senatorial Division HandoutTeaching History: Ask a Historian: Senatorial Division Handout
Publisher
Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Handouts & References
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Lexile Measures
1340L
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Teaching History: Ask a Historian: Senatorial Division

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A discussion of how the political balance kept shifting as free and slave states were admitted to the Union prior to the Civil War.

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free states, slave states, slavery debate, compromise of 1850, george mason university: ask a historian: senatorial division, john c. calhoun, senatorial division, wilmot proviso, political division before civil war, a nation divided (1848-60)

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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