Extensions

Extension Activity: Election of 1860 

The Issues Endure: Have students summarize the arguments about how states should judge the constitutionality of federal government actions in the following Word documents:

• Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention
• Virginia Resolutions
• Kentucky Resolutions
• South Carolina Exposition and Protest
• South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification 

Extension Activity: The Resignation of President Nixon

Using the PDF of a Memorandum to Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, students should create a Venn diagram or list outlining the reasons for or against a pardon. Which reasons for or against a pardon were the most convincing? Why?

Download the PDF Memo to Leon Jaworski

Lyndon B. Johnson

As President, Lyndon B. Johnson had surgery to remove his gall bladder. Some were concerned that he was more ill than he was letting on. In an effort to demonstrate that he...

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