In this section, students will participate in two historical role playing games from the Reacting to the Past (RTTP) series. In each game, students will be placed in a moment of intense intellectual, political and cultural controversy from the past and play the role of a character from that period as they seek to advance a particular policy agenda and achieve their victory objectives by giving speeches, conducting informal debates and negotiations, and engaging in direct actions. Students will examine and reflect upon events and developments from antebellum America that came to shape many of the social, racial, and economic challenges and inequities of the contemporary United States. These topics, which include slavery, abolition, Native American removal and genocide, sovereignty, and secessionism, will be explored by playing the following games: Red Clay: Cherokee Removal and the Meaning of Sovereignty (1835) and Kentucky: Loyalty, State, and Nation (1861).
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