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?

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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.