Grade 5 Lesson at a Glance: Chapter 18, Lesson 1

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
America Will Be

Lesson at a Glance
Chapter 18, Lesson 1: Crisis and Compromise (pp. 444-449)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Conflict Northern and Southern states resolve their differences through compromise.

Ask students to think of an example of two people not agreeing over a way to do something. Ask them how the situation was worked out. Did one side win or was there a compromise?

Talk about the differences between life in the northern and southern states. Then talk about how these differences would create problems between the two areas. Ask students how they might have solved the problems.

Lesson Outline
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Check for Understanding

Divide the class into two groups. Tell half of the class that they are representatives for a northern state in Congress. Tell the other half that they are representing a southern state in Congress. Have them tell if the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 satisfied them or not and why.
On a map, have students point out the free states, the slave states, the territories open to slavery, and the territory closed to slavery as established by the Compromise of 1850.

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