Lincoln's Spot Resolutions. Teaching with Documents [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5693419
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED466427
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2002
- 19 p.
- Summary:
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Tension has existed between the legislative and the executive branches of the U.S. government over war powers since the United States Constitution simultaneously vested Congress with the power to declare war and the President with the power of Commander in Chief. When Texas declared its independence and claimed additional territory to the Rio Grande, Mexico broke diplomatic relations with the United States and refused to recognize either the Texas annexation or the Rio Grande border. When President Polk drafted a message asking Congress to declare war on Mexico in May 1846, he asserted that "Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood upon America's soil." A freshman Whig congressman from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln, questioned whether the spot where blood had been shed was really U.S. soil. On December 22, 1847, he introduced the "Spot Resolutions," one of several congressional resolutions opposing the war. It was never acted upon. This lesson plan uses two pages of Lincoln's "Spot Resolutions," as well as photographs of James Polk, John L. Slidell, Zachary Taylor, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, and Abraham Lincoln as historical primary source documents. The lesson plan provides teaching activities, including history and civics and government standards correlation and document analysis activities. Contains the documents and a written document analysis worksheet. (BT)
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- Availability: National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. Tel: 866-272-6272 (Toll Free); Fax: 301-837-0483; e-mail: orderstatus@nara.gov. For full text: http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/teaching_with_documents.html.
- ERIC Note: Designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. Photographic images of primary sources may not reproduce adequately. For additional "Teaching with Documents" materials, see SO 033 954-958.
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Academic Standards
- Federal Government
- Foreign Countries
- Intermediate Grades
- National Standards
- Primary Sources
- Secondary Education
- Social Studies
- Student Research
- Teacher Developed Materials
- United States History
- Lincoln (Abraham)
- Document Analysis Mexican War Mexico National Civics and Government Standards National History Standards
- Other authors/contributors:
- National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2072 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2002
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