Alabama Social Studies SS24.4.13a
The Standard
- SS24.4.13
- Describe how slavery contributed to sectional disagreements, divisions over states’ rights, and economic disputes resulting in the Civil War.
Identify and describe how key events from the Missouri Compromise (1820) to the election of Abraham Lincoln (1860) contributed to growing sectional divisions.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students put major events from 1820 to 1860 in order and explain how each affected arguments over slavery's spread. They trace how compromises, new laws, a court ruling, and Lincoln's election widened the split between Northern and Southern states.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can place the Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott decision, and Lincoln's election in order. They can explain what each did and why it caused disagreement between Northern and Southern leaders.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think the Missouri Compromise ended the fight over slavery for good. Others think every Northerner opposed slavery or that Lincoln's election made slavery illegal.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name two events between 1820 and 1860. For each, write one sentence explaining how it affected the conflict over slavery.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs 1820 and 1854 maps; have them mark the Missouri Compromise line and circle Kansas on each map.
Ask: Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act upset people who thought the Missouri Compromise had settled where slavery could spread?
Play an event-card match with dates and effects for the Fugitive Slave Act, Dred Scott decision, and Lincoln's election.
Locate Missouri, Kansas, and Alabama on a current U.S. map, then compare their locations with a historical free-state and slave-state map.
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