Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.4

SS24.US1.4 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.US1.4a

  Describe the growth of an anti-slavery movement in northern states through the founding of the first abolitionist societies, passage of gradual emancipation law...

• SS24.US1.4b

  Explain why the Northwest Ordinance's ban on slavery in new states north of the Ohio River (1787) was significant.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how revolutionary claims about liberty gave people arguments against slavery. They trace northern abolition efforts and explain why the 1787 ban on slavery in the Northwest Territory mattered.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can use Pennsylvania's abolition society and gradual emancipation law, Quock Walker's lawsuits, and the Northwest Ordinance as evidence. They explain that gradual emancipation left people enslaved for years and that the territorial ban did not end slavery nationwide.

03

Common Misconceptions

Some students think the Revolution freed everyone who was enslaved. Others think northern emancipation laws freed people immediately, or that the Northwest Ordinance banned slavery in every northern state.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Name one northern action against slavery after the Revolution. Explain how the Northwest Ordinance limited slavery and where its ban applied.

1. 01

   Give pairs four event cards dated 1775, 1780, 1783, and 1787; have them build a timeline and label each change.

2. 02

   Ask students to write two sentences: Who could use revolutionary claims about liberty to challenge slavery, and who remained enslaved?

3. 03

   Play a matching game with cards for Pennsylvania's society, its gradual emancipation law, Quock Walker's lawsuits, and the Northwest Ordinance.

4. 04

   On a current U.S. map, shade Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, then mark the territory affected by the 1787 ban.

• 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.US1.10a

  Describe forms of resistance to slavery demonstrated by enslaved and free Black Americans, and assess the impact of resistance on southern states’ slave codes.

• SS24.6.6c

  Describe how enslaved people and abolitionists sought to oppose slavery in colonial America.

• SS24.8.13

  Analyze the economic, political, and social effects of the transatlantic slave trade on African societies and American colonies.