Unit Five: Clash of Cultures

1. The Culture of Slavery:
   • “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Harriet Beecher Stowe excerpts
   • First photographs of people, spirituals
   • Eyewitness accounts: Frederick Douglass
     
     
2. The Civil War: North vs. South
• Paintings from Winslow Homer
• Stephen Crane’s “Red Badge of Courage” excerpt
  
  
3. Abraham Lincoln’s mystique:
   storyteller, politician, president, philosopher
   
• Lincoln anecdotes, stories, autobiographies, famous writings
• Matthew Brady photographs, 19th century illustrations
• Lincoln and J. F. Kennedy comparisons
  
  
4. Native American Voices: East vs. West
• Causes of Cultural Wars:
  Railroad (Currier & Ives)  Killing of buffalo
• Prophets of doom:
  Chief Joseph, Adario, Red Jacket, Chief Crazy Horse
• Pictograph of the times – Sioux
  
  
5. The Inventor of the 20th century: Thomas Edison
   • His inventions
   • His words
     
     
6. Words, Words, Words:
   Vocabulary List & Structure: Prefixes, Roots, Suffixes
   
   
7. Unit Test