Dred Scott Decision - March 6

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Today is Alamo Day, Day of the Dude, Day of Unplugging, Dress Day, Oreo Cookie Day, White Chocolate Cheesecake Day, and No Homework Day.

Women's History Month Resource of the Day: BBC Ideas: Three Women Who Changed How We See the Universe

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Dred Scott Decision
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ON THIS DATE

• 1836 - The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege.
• 1853 - Verdi's opera "La Traviata" premiered in Venice, Italy.
• 1857 -  In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in a federal court.
• 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1899- Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• 1912 - Oreo sandwich cookies are introduced by the National Biscuit Co.
• 1933 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
• 1944 - Bombers staged the first American raid on Berlin during World War II.
• 1951 - The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1340 - English military leader and statesman John of Gaunt
• 1475 - Painter and sculptor Michelangelo
• 1619 - French author Cyrano de Bergerac
• 1806 - English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• 1844 - Russian composer Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
• 1884 - Norwegian tennis player Molla Mallory
• 1906 - Actor Lou Costello
• 1937 - Russian pilot and astronaut Valentina Tereshkova
• 1947 - Actor, director, and producer Rob Reiner
• 1953 - Astronomer Carolyn Porco
• 1972 - Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal

SONG OF THE DAY 

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov - The Flight of the Bumble Bee - LISTEN

THEME:  Dred Scott Decision

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - National Archives - Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) and Resource Materials - READ and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - What Was the Dred Scott Decision? (2:00) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - iCivics - Dred Scott v. Sanford Mini Lesson Plan - DO
• Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Primary Source Documents - Dred Scott v. Sanford -READ and VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - National Archives - Milestone Documents - Dred Scott v. Sanford - READ and VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - A More Perfect Union - Dred Scott Case (5:18) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Split in Two: The Dred Scott Decision - 1857 (8:39) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Almanac - Dred Scott (6:52) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Experience - The Abolitionists - The Dred Scott Decision (2:57) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - Oyez - Dred Scott v. Sanford - READ
• Grades 9-12 - Crash Course - The Dred Scott Decision (11:35) - VIEW

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