A Divided Nation Big Ideas: 1. Expansion and innovation creates new opportunties and growth. 2. Reform can result in change in the democratic process. 3. Citizen action can create change. 4. Failure to compromise can create conflict. 5. Shifts in power can affect rights and freedoms.
" A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave half free. I do not expect the union to be dissovled-I do not expect the house to fall-but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other." - A. Lincoln