Dear America - The Diary of a Slave Girl (excerpt) - Suggested through GDOE
http://www.scholastic.com/teachdearamerica/pdf/APictureOfFreedom.pdf Get the perspective of slave girl, Clotee http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/children-s-rhymes/
Children's Rhymes - Perspective of Langston Hughes - Suggested by GDOE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpIjPr63paw
Follow the Drinking Gourd - Song suggested from GDOE Lyrics secede- to break away
slave state - state in which slavery was legally allowed Confederacy - government formed by the seven seceding states, also known as the Confederate States of America slave codes - laws to control the behavior of slaves Underground Railroad - organized, secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada border state - state located between the Union and the Confederacy Compromise of 1850 - plan in which California entered the United States as a free state and te Fugitive Slave Law was passed free state - state in which slavery was not allowed Union - states that remained loyal to the United States government Fugitive Slave Law- law which stated that escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, even if they had reached Northern states where slavery was not allowed Kansas-Nebraska Act - law allowing the people of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether they would allow slavery in their territory sectionalism- loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country Missouri Compromise - law passed in 1820 that divided Lousiana Territory into a southern area that allowed slavery and a northern area that did not *** Need to review this one with students*** civil war - a war between people of the same country http://library.thinkquest.org/6400/
Pioneers Exploration http://www.webrangers.us/activities/rrc/?id=48 Transcontinental Railroad |
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