Getting Started

1. 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:
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History of American Slavery

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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.

Vocabulary
institution - 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
Americas plan of government
import - trade good brought into a countryPage
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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 Americas 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.

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Slavery in the United

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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?

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Back to the Constitutional

Convention
Why slavery should be
Why slavery should be
allowed in some places
BANNED by the United
by the United States
States?
Constition?
Slavery has always
Slavery is evil
existed, right or wrong
The nation is founded on
The southern wealth
the idea of human
depends on slaves
equality
The North also benefits
In order for the country
from southern goods
to be strong, it must live
The southern states will
by its ideas
not join the new nation if
The new federal
the Constitution bans
government must be
slavery
strong and given
The institution will likely
important powers such as
die out as it has in other
banning slavery

Success Criteria

I can closely read secondary source documents.

I can use evidence from the text to make
inferences.

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