Unit Introduction:

The Fight To Abolish Slavery

Unit Highlights

In this unit, students will analyze primary and secondary sources to explain the early and steady attempts to abolish slavery and to realize the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Students will be able to:

Classify leaders of the Abolition movement.
Explain the abolition of slavery in early state constitutions.
Explain arguments over slavery when adding Texas and California to the Union.
Sequence the gradual struggle over abolition.

Unit Vocabulary

Benjamin Franklin
Bleeding Kansas (1854-1861)
The Compromise of 1850
The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision (1857)
Frederick Douglass
The Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

Harriet Tubman
John Brown
John Q. Adams
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
The Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858)
The Missouri Compromise (1820)

States' Rights
Theodore Weld
The Underground Railroad
William Lloyd Garrison
The Wilmot Proviso (1846)

Activity 1: The fight to abolish slavery Pre-Test

Using your prior knowledge, brainstorm, list, and/or draw what you know about the fight to abolish slavery in a thinking map. Complete this assignment on the Thinking Maps Learning Community or on paper. You may include:

Information you know or kind of know about the fight to abolish slavery.

Guesses about the fight to abolish slavery.
Questions you have about the fight to abolish slavery.
Information you would like to know about the fight to abolish slavery.
What comes to mind when you think of the fight to abolish slavery.

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