Florida SS.68.AA.2.1
The Standard
Explain early congressional actions regarding the institution of slavery (i.e., Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Three-Fifths Compromise, Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves of 1808).
Florida Next Generation Sunshine State Standards for Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain what each measure did and how it affected slavery, representation, or westward expansion. They compare each measure’s stated rule with its actual limits and political effects.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students place the three measures in chronological order and accurately describe each one. They explain that ending overseas importation did not end slavery or the domestic slave trade.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the three-fifths rule gave enslaved people voting rights. They may also think the 1808 law ended slavery or that the Northwest Ordinance banned slavery nationwide.
How to Assess It
- Use an exit ticket with three rows, one for each measure, and these columns: rule, immediate effect, and major limitation.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups excerpt cards from all three measures and effect cards, then have them match each pair and defend one match.
Ask students to write: Which measure most expanded slaveholding power, and which most limited slavery? Support both choices with evidence.
Play a three-corner review: read a provision or effect, and students move to the matching measure and explain their choice.
Use a sample 1790 population table to calculate House representation with and without the three-fifths rule, then compare political power.
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Related Standards
- SS.8.A.4.2
Describe the debate surrounding the spread of slavery into western territories and Florida.
- SS.8.A.5.2
Analyze the role of slavery in the development of sectional conflict.
- SS.68.AA.2.5
Identify political figures who strove to abolish the institution of slavery (e.g., Thaddeus Stevens, Abraham Lincoln, Zachariah Chandler).
- SS.5.A.5.9
Discuss the impact and significance of land policies developed under the Confederation Congress (Northwest Ordinance of 1787).
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