Say What?
"Loyalty to your region over your country as a whole. The North and South had this before the Civil War."
What is sectionalism
"In the Avatar clip we watched, this is the name of the empire that teaches its students a false version of history."
What is the Fire Nation
"This 1820 agreement drew a line at 36 30' latitude and admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state."
What is the Missouri Compromise
"This vocabulary word is the opposite of abolition. Instead of ending the system, this word describes joining it, even indirectly."
What is complicit
"Personal property. When applied to people, this word means human beings are legally classified as things."
What is chattel
A story where characters and events represent bigger ideas underneath the surface. Avatar is one of these for imperialism."
What is an allegory
"This 1846-1848 war added California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico to the United States and reopened the slavery debate."
What is the Mexican-American War
"These two vocabulary words are a cause-and-effect pair: the belief that expansion was divinely ordained led directly to the act of incorporating new territory."
What is Manifest Destiny and annexation
"Being involved in something wrong without directly causing it. The Fugitive Slave Act made the entire North this."
What is complicit?
"The Fire Nation called its conquest 'sharing prosperity.' Americans used this two-word term to justify their own expansion across the continent."
What is Manifest Destiny
"Stephen Douglas proposed letting settlers vote on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska, effectively killing the Missouri Compromise line. This policy was called ___."
What is popular Soverignty
"Jefferson writing 'all men are created equal' while owning over 600 enslaved people is the textbook example of this vocabulary word."
What is irony
"This is the intellectual step before secession: the idea that a state can reject a federal law it considers unconstitutional. South Carolina tried it in 1832."
What is nullification
"In the Avatar clip, students are punished for doing this. Frederick Douglass was forbidden from doing it too. Mr. Auld said it would 'spoil' an enslaved person."
What is asking questions/learning/thinking for yourself?
"Put these four events in chronological order: Dred Scott decision, Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise."
What is Missouri Compromise (1820), Fugitive Slave Act (1850), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Dred Scott decision (1857)
"Name two vocabulary words that connect the Fugitive Slave Act to the concept of complicity: one describes the person being hunted, and the other describes what the law did to Northerners who were forced to help return them."
What are fugitive and complicit?
"This is the intellectual step before secession: the idea that a state can reject a federal law it considers unconstitutional. South Carolina tried it in 1832."
What is nullification?
"The Fire Nation didn't just silence opposition. It made sure certain people could never participate in decisions about their own lives. Water Tribe and Earth Kingdom citizens had no vote, no voice, no standing. Name the vocabulary word for that removal of political power."
What is disenfranchisement?
"Put these four events in chronological order: Dred Scott decision, Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise."
What is Missouri Compromise (1820), Fugitive Slave Act (1850), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Dred Scott decision (1857)?
"This vocabulary word describes a gap between what's said and what's done. But it ALSO describes the entire structure of the pre-war era: a nation that called itself free while running on slavery. Name the word AND explain why the whole unit is an example of it."
What is irony? The founding documents promised equality while the Constitution counted enslaved people as 3/5 of a person. Every compromise claimed to preserve the union while deepening the contradiction. The entire era is defined by the gap between American ideals and American reality.