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Locate Academic Alignments For - 12 Years a Slave
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Academic Alignment Authority: Virginia
Subject Matter / Course: Social Studies
The following academic standards have been aligned to 12 Years a Slave
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Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Although slavery ended, African- Americans did not achieve full equality during the next 100 years.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Fugitive slave events pitted Southern slave owners against outraged Northerners who opposed returning escaped slaves to bondage.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
The development of a slavery-based agricultural economy in the Southern colonies eventually led to conflict between the North and South and the American Civil War.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Why was slavery introduced into the colonies?
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 11, 12
African Americans also faced discrimination and violence in the North and Midwest.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 10, 11
Human resources: e.g., farmers, enslaved African Americans
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 10, 11
Southern states that were dependent upon labor-intensive cash crops seceded from the Union. Northernmost slave states (border states) and free states stayed in the Union.
Social Studies
12 Years a Slave
Ages: 10, 11
Were often born into slavery (Children of enslaved African Americans were born into slavery.)
