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Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Describe the leaders of the movement (e.g., John Quincy Adams and his proposed constitutional amendment, John Brown and the armed resistance, Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Weld, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Discuss the abolition of slavery in early state constitutions.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Describe the significance of the Northwest Ordinance in education and in the banning of slavery in new states north of the Ohio River.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Discuss the importance of the slavery issue as raised by the annexation of Texas and California’s admission to the union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Analyze the significance of the States’ Rights Doctrine, the Missouri Compromise (1820), the Wilmot Proviso (1846), the Compromise of 1850, Henry Clay’s role in the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857), and the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858).

Overarching Standard:
HSS-8.9 Students analyze the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence.

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Describe the lives of free blacks and the laws that limited their freedom and economic opportunities.

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Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

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HSS-PoE.12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

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Examine the causal relationship between scarcity and the need for choices.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

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Explain opportunity cost and marginal benefit and marginal cost.

Overarching Standard:
HSS-PoE.12.1 Students understand common economic terms and concepts and economic reasoning.

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Identify the difference between monetary and nonmonetary incentives and how changes in incentives cause changes in behavior.