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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mastering the Document-Based Essay Question

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a primary source document from the Civil War period of history in order to derive meaning for an essay question. The essay is based completely on the document with no other research to support the content.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

John Brown, Then and Now

For Teachers 11th
Eleventh graders identify some of the ways that the raid at Harper's Ferry influenced the Civil War. They articulate the different ways that people though about John Brown in the 1800's and how his persona may or may not have changed...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Daily Language

For Students 6th - 7th
In this Language Arts learning exercise, students correct a sentence, circle the adjectives in another sentence, and underline the main verb and circle the helping verb in another. Students also write an essay about how slavery is wrong.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Black History Month Alphabetic Order

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Black History Month worksheet, students alphabetize a set of 14 words related to Black History Month. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Graphic
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Photo Gallery: Significant Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the countless people who made important contributions to the abolitionist movement to end slavery. In this photo gallery from American Experience, explore some of these leaders and their vocations.
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Website
Other

Geni: American Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Looks at the history of the abolitionist movement in the United States, the key people involved, and important events.
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Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The American Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the American Abolitionist Movement.
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Website
Other

American Abolitionism Project: A Brief History of American Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a short history of the American abolitionist movement, and breaks the movement down into different categories of abolitionists and some key people involved in each group. Includes links to additional information.
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Primary
Other

Univ. Of Detroit Mercy Black Abolitionist Archive: Black Abolitionist Archive

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of speeches by African American abolitionists from the 1800s, accompanied by interpretative readings in audio files.
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Graphic
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Abolitionist Map of America

For Students 9th - 10th
Through an interactive map, tours, documents, images, and videos, explore the account of the abolitionist movement in America.
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Website
Cornell University

Cornell University: Library: I Will Be Heard: Prominent Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the impetus behind the anti-slavery movement and the philosophy that united all abolitionists even though they followed different routes. Included are links to individual biographies of prominent abolitionists.
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Primary
Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: The American Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
The resources in this set highlight the people and political acts that were central to the abolitionist movement.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: African American Abolitionists

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about three African-American abolitionists who worked alone and in concert with white abolitionists. The most radical was David Walker, who was the founder of radical abolitionism.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Abolitionist Sentiment Grows

For Students 5th - 7th
Abolitionists had been active since the end of the Revolutionary War, but in the 1830s they became more radical in their demands to end slavery. See what their solutions were, and read about how abolitionist views were thwarted in the...
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Primary
Other

Many Roads to Freedom: Locally Published Abolitionist Newspapers

For Students 9th - 10th
Selections from abolitionist papers that were published in or near Rochester, New York are provided here for download in PDF format.
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Article
Other

Abolitionists, Free Blacks, and Runaway Slaves: Surviving Slavery in Maryland

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the groups of people who lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the mid-1800s and fought against slavery: the Quakers, former slaves, and fugitive slaves. This article describes the efforts of both whites and blacks, who...
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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: African American Mosaic: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
See documents and pictures of those actively involved in the anti-slavery movement. From the Library of Congress.
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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline of the beginning of the Abolitionist Movement in a pre-Civil War America as part of the sectional conflict between the North and South.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: The Revolutionary Rise of Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "The Revolutionary Rise of Abolitionists" by USHistory.org, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: The Abolitionists

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the abolitionist movement and the people who pushed for the abolition of slavery, especially William Lloyd Garrison who founded the Liberator newspaper and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Arguments for slavery were put...
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Article
Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: The Abolitionist Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the history of the Abolitionist Movement that was established in the free states of the North to abolish the institution of slavery in the South.
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Handout
Other

Ny History Net: The "Black Dream" of Gerrit Smith, New York Abolitionist

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about the life of abolitionist Gerrit Smith, who was convicted in the John Brown Raid on Harpers Ferry but maintained innocence in any involvement in planning the raid.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 7 Social Studies: Abolitionist Movement

For Teachers 7th - 8th
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the fundamental beliefs that shaped the abolitionist movement.
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Primary
Other

House Divided Project: Letters and Diaries: Thomas Garrett to William Still #2

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of an original letter from Thomas Garrett to fellow abolitionist William Still regarding the intricate workings of the Underground Railroad.

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