Alabama Social Studies SS24.4.13

SS24.4.13 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.4.13a

  Identify and describe how key events from the Missouri Compromise (1820) to the election of Abraham Lincoln (1860) contributed to growing sectional divisions.

• SS24.4.13b

  Describe the influence of abolitionists, including enslaved persons and self-liberated Black Americans, on efforts to end slavery in the United States.

• SS24.4.13c

  Describe the significance of the Clotilda’s delivery of kidnapped people to Mobile Bay as an effort to expand slavery.

• SS24.4.13d

  Summarize Alabama’s role in the formation of the Confederate States of America, including the pivotal events that took place in Montgomery and the division over...

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What Students Need to Do

Students explain how slavery drove disputes over new states, state power, and the economy. They trace events leading to war and describe how enslaved and self-liberated Black Americans worked to end slavery. They connect the Clotilda’s arrival and Alabama’s secession to those divisions.

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What Mastery Looks Like

A student can put the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Lincoln’s election in order and explain how each deepened divisions over slavery. They can explain why the Clotilda’s arrival in Mobile Bay broke federal law. They can identify Montgomery as the Confederacy’s first capital and note that some northern Alabamians opposed secession.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may think states’ rights arguments had nothing to do with slavery, or that every Alabamian supported secession. Some may think bringing kidnapped Africans into the country was legal in 1860, or that only white Americans worked to end slavery.

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How to Assess It

On an exit slip, ask students to name one event that widened divisions over slavery, one action Black abolitionists took, and one fact about either the Clotilda or Alabama’s secession.

1. 01

   Mark Maine and Missouri on a paper map, color their admission as free and slave states, then explain the compromise.

2. 02

   Read a short account of Harriet Tubman’s escape, then ask, “How did self-liberated people help others resist slavery?”

3. 03

   Play a timeline relay with cards for the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Clotilda arrival, Lincoln’s election, and Alabama’s secession.

4. 04

   Find Africatown on a current Mobile map, then write a map caption explaining how Clotilda survivors built it after emancipation.

• SS24.US1.9

  Explain how economic and social divisions led to heightened sectionalism between the North and the South, examining their geographical and economic distinctions...

• SS24.US1.11

  Analyze how government policies and events related to slavery led to increased sectionalism throughout the United States prior to the Civil War.

• SS24.US1.12c

  Describe the social, economic, and political conditions that affected citizens during the Civil War and explain how both citizens and enslaved people contribute...