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1 |Weeks 2-6 |Essential Questions |Subject: African American History |Skills |Standards | |

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| | |Core |Choice | |CRS |ILS | |The Slave’s Reaction |How did the Democratic Party support the interests of the South’s slaveholding elite?

What was the Benevolent Empire and what causes did it champion?

Why and how did abolitionism begin in America?

How did the revolts of Gabriel and Denmark Vesey affect African Americans?

What role did black women play in the abolition movement?

What was David Walker’s Appeal and why was it important?

What was the significance of Nat Turner’s revolt?

When did anti-black mob violence reach its peak? Why did it taper off?

What was the goal of the Compromise of 1850 and what consequences did it have for African Americans?

How did the American Anti-Slavery Society influence the creation of black antislavery groups?

What were the goals and principles of the AASS?

How did the agenda of the black conventions change between the 1830’s and late 1840’s?

What role did black ministers play in the anti-slavery movement?

How did abolitionism become more aggressive during the 1840’s and 1850’s?

How did the underground railroad work?

What were the causes of the black militancy in the 1840’s?

What led a minority of black leaders to consider migration in the 1840’s? |

Political Paranoia

The Benevolent Empire

The Anti-slavery Movement

• The Quakers

• Northern Abolitionists

Gabriel’s Conspiracy

Denmark Vesey’s Revolt

Black Abolitionists Women

David Walker’s Appeal

Nat Turner

Anti-black and Anti-Abolitionist Riots

The American Anti-Slavery Society

The Underground Railroad

Black Militancy

Black Nationalism

|The Second Great Awakening

Black Nationalism and Colonization

Black Opposition to Colonization

The Baltimore Alliance

Black and Women’s Anti-slavery Societies

Frederick Douglass |Identify the historical forces of continuity and change that affected the development of social institutions over time.

Analyze the origins and development of the social issues that affect United States citizens as members of a global society.

Describe how an individual can work with others to make a change in official social policy.

Describe the position of William Lloyd Garrison and the “Old Organization” in the 1840’s.

• Social Studies map skills

• problem/solution

• cause /effect

• notetaking

• outlining

• summarization

• compare/contrast

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MID: 24-27

Understand the overall approach taken by an author or narrator in more challenging passages

Summarize basic events and ideas in more challenging passages

CER: 24-27

Order sequences of events in uncomplicated passages

Identify relationships between main characters

Understand relationships between people, ideas, and so on

Understand implied or subtly stated cause-effect relationships |

16.D.4a (US) Describe the immediate and long-range social impacts of slavery.

17.A.4a Use mental maps of physical features to answer complex geographic questions (e.g., how physical features have deterred or enabled migration).

18.B.4 Analyze various forms of institutions (e.g., educational, military, charitable, governmental).

18.B.5 Use methods of social science inquiry (pose questions, collect and analyze data, make and support conclusions with evidence, report findings) to study the development and functions of social systems and report conclusions to a larger audience. | |

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