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Getting Started1. Take out your assignment book and copy the
following homework:
Due Wednesday, May 18
2. Take out your Social Studies notebook and fill in your Table of Contents with the following information:
5/16 History of American Slavery 92
Students will be able to explain how and why slavery was an issue in America by analyzing why slavery was allowed, and
how it grew.
Success Criteria
I can closely read secondary source documents.
I can use evidence from the text to make inferences.
Vocabularyinstitution - a practice, relationship, or behavior pattern that is important to community life
compromise - a settlement of differences in which each side gives up some of its demands
Constitution - document that outlines America’s plan of government
import - trade good brought into a country Page 92
Vocabulary
institution - a practice, relationship, or behavior pattern that is important to community life
Vocabulary
compromise - a settlement of differences in which each side gives up some of its demands
Vocabulary
Constitution - document that outlines America’s plan of government
Vocabulary
import - trade good brought into a country
Slavery in the United States
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Declaration of Independence, 1776Turn and Talk
Slavery in the United States
Turn and Talk
Success Criteria
I can closely read secondary source documents.
I can use evidence from the text to make inferences.
The Wolf by the Ears
Close Reading, The Wolf by the Ears
Number paragraphs
Read The Wolf by the Ears
Annotate The Wolf by the Ears
Success Criteria
I can closely read secondary source documents.
I can use evidence from the text to make inferences.
Back to the Constitutional Convention
Close Reading, Back to the Constitutional Convention
Number paragraphs
Read Back to the Constitutional Convention
Annotate Back to the Constitutional Convention
Back to the Constitutional Convention
Work in your Social Studies Triads
List as many arguments as you can that support each side of the slavery debate at the Constitutional Convention.
Remember, the primary goal of the Founding Fathers was to unite the states under a plan of government that would stand the test of time.
Back to the Constitutional Convention
Why slavery should be BANNED by the United
States?
Why slavery should be allowed in some places by
the United States Constition?
Page 92
Back to the Constitutional Convention
Why slavery should be BANNED by the United
States?
Why slavery should be allowed in some places by
the United States Constition?
Slavery is evilThe nation is founded on the idea of human equalityIn order for the country to be strong, it must live by its ideasThe new federal government must be strong and given important powers such as banning slavery
Slavery has always existed, right or wrongThe southern wealth depends on slavesThe North also benefits from southern goodsThe southern states will not join the new nation if the Constitution bans slaveryThe institution will likely die out as it has in other places
Success Criteria
I can closely read secondary source documents.
I can use evidence from the text to make inferences.
Exit Ticket
Do you think the Founding Fathers
were wise in setting aside the issue of slavery in order to form the
new U.S. government under the Constitution?
Explain your answer.