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Academic Alignment Authority: District of Columbia

Subject Matter / Course: Social Studies

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District of Columbia
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
5
Ages: 17
Explain how the city responded to the problems that accompanied the sudden surge of population (e.g., soldiers and escaping slaves).
District of Columbia
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
6
Ages: 13
Identify the conditions of enslavement, and explain how slaves adapted and resisted in their daily lives.
District of Columbia
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
4
Ages: 13
Trace the development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings of David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, Martin Delany and Frederick Douglass, as well as the historical documents on Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey).
District of Columbia
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
2
Ages: 10
Describe the lives of African Americans, including an explanation of their early concentration in the South because of slavery, the Great Migration to Northern cities in the 20th century, and ongoing African immigrant groups (e.g., Ethiopians, Nigerians, and Ghanaians), and where they have tended to settle in large numbers.
District of Columbia
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
3
Ages: 10
Identify the characteristics of slave life and the resistance on plantations and farms across the South.
District of Columbia
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
1
Ages: 10
Describe how Southern colonists slowly altered their attitudes toward Africans, increasingly viewing them as permanent servants or slaves; the harsh conditions of the Middle Passage; the responses of slave families to their condition; and the ongoing struggle between proponents and opponents of slavery.
District of Columbia
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
1
Ages: 10
Explain the expansion of the plantation system and slavery as the demand for cotton production grew.

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