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HSS-8.9.1 (History–Social Science)


Standard Identifier: HSS-8.9.1
Content Area: History–Social Science
Grade: 8
Course: United States History and Geography: Growth and Conflict, Grade 8

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.

Standard:
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).

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